West Cocoa Chat

Hello all. I hope all of you had a Merry Christmas. Ours was filled with family and friends who are like family. This past Sunday night saw 33 people flood our living room floor for our annual showing of our favorite Christmas Movie, “Christmas Vacation.” The scene of 33 bodies sprawled out all over our living room on our chairs, couch, and air mattresses looked like a Fire Marshall’s nightmare. For those who might be thinking we must have a huge living room, we don’t depending on your definition of “huge.” But that was the fun part; kind of like the old days of seeing how many people you could stuff inside a car or phone (do they still make those?) booth.

Our Christmas Eve started off spending the 4am Christmas Eve Mass / Children’s Program with my In-Laws. They had recently attended our “Mouse Christmas Program” so we decided to hang out with them at their church since ours was not having a Christmas Eve Service. I hadn’t been to a Catholic Mass in years and I must say I was impressed. The Priest was friendly, personable, and spoke in a “living language.” That was a little joke, a very little joke. The part I was impressed with was when his cell phone began to ring. The phone call was from Santa who actually asked the Priest to try not to be as naughty as he was this past year.

6:00pm found us at my Sister-in-law’s house hooking back up with our good friends from South Carolina. The highlight of our evening is the “Dice Game.” My Sister-in-law buys little gifts through out the year that are the prizes for each round. A round pan, a pair of (teachers are suppose to call them “Number Generators”) dice, and a timing device is all you need to play. When time starts the first person throws the dice. If they roll a 7 or 11, the gift is handed to them and the pan is QUICKLY passed to the next person. No 7 or 11 means you pass the pan QUICKLY to the next person. The next person to roll a 7 or 11 gets possession of the prize until time runs out. We usually play each round for 30 seconds to 1 minute.

Like many of you, we opened gifts yesterday morning. Steven’s favorite gifts were a bluetooth headset and a “touch” I-Pod. I’m looking forward to using my fogless mirror / C.D. / radio / hangs in the shower gift. Barb’s favorite gift was serving all of us our favorite / not even close to being weight-watcher friendly foods for breakfast and dinner.

Well family, I have to go and brave a record 82-degree day. Remember, when you’re thinking your weather is miserable, think of what I have to deal with. :)

// posted by cwinwc @ 6:03 AM