Merry Christmas

I'm back! It's hard to believe that several months passed without a single update, but I offer no excuses. I just didn't feel like writing. Anyway, Tom and I are relaxing after a very busy Christmas Day here in Ottawa. This is the first Christmas we've actually spent in Ottawa, so it was the first time we had a tree in this house. It's also the first Christmas Henry has ever spent without grandparents on hand, which was a little sad. But we had fun keeping things small-scale, and definitely appreciated skipping the trip to the airport for a hellish trip west!

The kids were good to us this morning. Dexter woke up at 7, and we woke Henry up at 7:30. The great unwrapping proceeded like a great tornado through our house, and the pile of presents was quite overwhelming. Dexter even lost interest in unwrapping his remaining gifts near the end; he left them for a few hours until Henry started opening them for him. We spent the rest of the day hanging out and playing with the new stuff. For dinner we went over to the home of our friends Robert and Jolanda, whose son is Henry's age and also loves dinosaurs. We were able to enjoy something resembling a grownup dinner while the boys kept each other busy in a whirlwind of mayhem. I splurged on a very nice bottle of Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir for dinner, and it was worth every penny. Of course we missed all our peeps out west, but overall, it was a great Christmas.

Now, I said no excuses about why I haven't been blogging lately, but there was one big factor: my old PC laptop was on its last legs, and I found it just incredibly annoying to even boot the thing up and work on it. But recently I got a new MacBook Pro, so I'm back online at home. I really only bring this up because the one drawback of the Mac is that I haven't figured out an easy way to upload photos from iPhoto. I'm sure there's nothing to it--I just don't know how to. So, Christmas photos will follow soon. Promise!