meet Royal

December 9, 2008 | Filed Under ordinary 

because sickness abounded ernie stayed home with the kids for the opening of the show so he didn’t get any pics of the royal fans adoring our paper goods.  instead, he went by the afternoon of and took some pics for us.  hooray!  more detailed photos and more of the same gloriousness can be seen here. remember, the show will still be up this weekend and the next, so if you didn’t get a chance to come to the opening, there’s still time.

jude is feeling better, tearing up the house and then stopping to sit and look at the christmas tree.  he fell asleep in the living room last night, wadded up in a blanket, hypnotized by the slightly frantic flicker of the lights.  we made a tree yesterday, henry and i, stuck it in the awesome tree stand that josh made for me, while jude watched us from the chair, still feeling tired and weary.  after the ornaments were hung the tree started to bend forward, so i think i need to start over without little helpers.  lola does not pull the tree down, she points at it and makes noises that sound adoring.  when jude was a one year old he touched the tree once and never did again because it was the prickliest tree that ever burst through the ground, the snow.  i decorated with gloves that year.  when henry was one we didn’t have a tree.  i picked branches from the back trees when the landlord was not home and ran into the house with them in a hurry.  he probably wouldn’t have cared, but i hate asking those kinds of things.  i hate asking things in general, like “how much is this?” at a yard sale.  i don’t know why i feel this way.

it’s rainy and dismal here today.  i want to send the boys outside for a good run through the yard but they will complain about the cold and the wet and the muddy mess may not be worth the fifteen minutes of quiet within, ruckus without.   if i go out with them they will stay longer.  they only want my company for things like that, it seems.  it must be because i can swing them high and fast.

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