Mission: X-mas

Mission: X-mas

Written by:  Colleen

Hi to everyone again! I know we haven’t updated in a while but that’s because nothing really happened for a while. We had seen all the sites, gone to new towns tracing our ancestry, and we only had like, two things to do on mom’s list of 8 billion things that we have to go see. This is why we tell you not to go see 10 castles in a day, mom!

But that all changed 4 weeks ago. Was it really that long? It doesn’t seem like it at all. But lets forget about that bit and move on to the topic of the blog entry. Christmas!

Christmas is the most magical time of the year. To the neighbors here and back at home, the holidays last from November to February. Not true at all for my mom. For her, Christmas lasts for 2 days, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. If you want to put up decorations you do it on the Eve. Some sort of thing about loving your decorations enough not to let them gather dust outside. The second Christmas is over, she is taking down the lights and throwing the tree in the yard to decompose. Christmas candy is either eaten or hidden, or it will be thrown away. And she still denies that she hates the holidays. Hmmmm.

This year, though, I was very successful in hiding my candy, and retaining Christmas with the gifts I got. I wanted to thank Gram B, because now I am the most sherlock-y Sherlock fan ever. Next goes to Mamo and Poppop for bringing all the foods from home. On the slight chance that Devan ever reads this, you left your shell and your drawing here. I also want to thank Cameron, Leah, Peter, Angela and Grandpop for the gift box of Irish foods and candies. That was so sweet! I also loved the cards we got. It is so great that Cameron is learning how to spell and do math! I hope he likes it a lot and is prepared for the stuff that I’m learning about, especially in Math! Also, to the Kindel house, for the jeans! I wanted you to know that they fit perfectly.

Christmas meals were the most untraditional to us yet. They don’t have Jimmy Dean over here, so the Sausage balls didn’t taste right. We had cinnamon buns instead of rolls, and we had ham instead of the traditional turkey for supper. It was a crazy mash-up of Irish and American Christmases.

I got an Irish tin whistle for Christmas, and a Minecraft account. My username in Minecraft is Mirrorsrim, because Mirrorrim was taken already. Devan was there and taught me how to play Minecraft, and I made a LAN world for all three of us to play on. I am now in Drama lessons, and I can put the whistle to good use in the play I’m in. It doesn’t really have a name yet, but anyone who is in it gets to pick any mythological character they want to and be it! I decided to be Puck, from my favorite Shakespeare story, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Well that kind of sums up Christmas, and I can’t wait for my birthday, on January 23. 14 more days!

Signing off, Colleen