Elizabeth’s Journal

Virgin Blogger No Longer

Hello Family Members, yet another of us has arrived in the blogging world, and suddenly I’m going to have much more to do than simply kibbutz on other people’s blogs. Hmm.

Since this is intended partly as a Christmas present to the previous generation of our family, I want to first say, “Merry Christmas!” And I love all of you and hope everyone’s had a happy holiday.

Dale’s parents Joy & Brian are here with us now. Yesterday Jonathan and I took them down to the Victorian Christmas on Sixth Street, and we spent the entire day down there. Got there about 11:45 a.m. and left about 6 p.m. Jonathan was enchanted by the little children’s carnival and went in the giant bouncy castle, rode with me twice on the tubs of fun (where you sit in a little thingy and spin a wheel to make yourself go round really really fast), sat in a little train for nearly half an hour, and rode the little train that goes around the perimeter of the festival with me. We had an early dinner at B.D. Riley’s pub and thus got to stay late enough to see the stalls hang lanterns to see by as the sun went down. It was very pretty and a good time was had by all.

Today Dale is busy hiding speaker wire (we got new Bose speakers to replace the two huge things I’d had since my senior year in high school, and Dale has mounted them on the wall to save floor space), and I think later he is taking Jonathan to the Children’s Museum. I will probably relax on the couch and work on my genealogy stuff as I have a new software program, The Master Genealogist from Wholly Genes, to learn and it’s a doozy. But now I can work on it in comfort since my sweetie set up a wireless network yesterday for me (love that bonus money). It’s awfully nice!