Finally finished celebrating Christmas this weekend. Yes, you read that correctly.
Between the swim meets, volleyball games, gymnastics competitions and a million other things, this was the first weekend we could get together with Jacquie and her family. Jacquie is my dearest friend from college, a soul sister who is sometimes mistaken for actually being my sister. Jacquie is Catherine’s godmother and I am godmother to her son, Dominic.
There was no way to include Jacquie’s oldest, “Big Kathryn,” in the Christmas equation — she is at Temple U (and at nearly 21 destined to be “Big Kathryn” forever!).
We made the best of the date anyway, and packed the car up for a quick trip to Cranston, R.I., yesterday morning. It’s there that Jacquie’s three kids and Catherine have always behaved like cousins.
I was quickly reminded that far too much time goes by between our get-togethers.
You see, these kids:
Dominic, Catherine, Laura and Kathryn several Christmases ago.
Are now these kids:
Catherine, Laura and Dominic this past weekend. We sure missed Big Kathryn!
How did that happen?
After dinner, Dominic drove the girls to the mall – drove them! in a car!
There, the three of them and a friend saw a horror movie that Dom declared terrific and the girls agreed was “stupid.”
This is how Catherine and Laura looked to go out:
Catherine and Laura after a 30-minute primping session.
As we watched them go, Dominic with the car keys in hand, I asked Jacquie, “Aren’t they supposed to still be toddling around here in diapers?!”
The best answer she could muster was to take another sip of her wine.
Pushing on a Rope 
If you’d come here, you could have celebrated with the tree still up. That was our project for the weekend — get it down! And it is down. A few boxes left to go in the attic, but Christmas is over. The Easter box comes down tomorrow so the egg tree can go up.
Posted by Karen Waggoner | February 25, 2013, 12:16 amToo funny! I need to hear more about the egg tree!
Posted by Terri S. Vanech | February 25, 2013, 7:58 am