Psychotomy

It’s christmas time, in the city …

Des’ first christmas was, basically, everything you’d expect. In the morning, I peeled and cooked and mashed 10# of potatoes. Since Des was going to be eating stuff, we decided we wanted real potatoes instead of flaked (and kiir doesn’t like flaked, but this was all about des!). And my mom doesn’t mash potatoes since “we did 5# for 3 of us and fought over the last spoon” or whatever … so I made 10# for 10 people. yeah, it’s not quite as much as she was indicating we’d need, but I figured it’d be enough. The night before I’d made the Sweet Potato and Apple casserole, twice as much as usual to fit the # of people.

Get to my parents, and my grandmother and aunt are both there so Des gets some time playing and showing off for them before my other aunt and her brood arrive. Then it was gift time! we got some neat stuff, and des had twice as many gifts as anyone else (duh). We took him four things (including a motorized train that sings and makes animal noises and that K despises with a passion). Then he got a few things from my Grandmother & Aunt, mostly hand made crochet and knit stuff. My other aunt gave him some toys. My parents gave him toys and books and stuff. Amusingly, I think the only plastic made in china stuff he got was from us :o

My dad kibitzed and finally got to put out cheese & crackers right after everyone got there. Which was amusing, since half of us were still eating my grandmothers yam buns when he started putting things out :o but it kept eveyone happy, b/c they were allowed to give des Cheese and saltines. Kept people from t rying for hte yam buns (mmm, sugar and nuts, TWO things he doesn’t need a lot of yet) he got a little fussy after a while, all these people and i don’t wanna sleep i might miss something but i’m soooo tired. kiir got him to take a nap by laying with him on the bed upstairs.

That worked until we set the stove on fire. Fire alarm woke him up (gee, duh). he sat at dinner, had some fish, some broccoli, some yams, some apples, mashed potatoes, bread. he had some of almost everything :o he probably would have had more, but he needed a diapser change and we decided not to put him back in my hichair (mmmm vintage!)

I went home with about a third of the potatoes, and my mom kept the second (untouched) dish of yams. I think i can scale back some, maybe :o

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