The short version
Dec. 26th, 2004 11:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pixiecrinkleHave just returned from a three day/two night stay in South Charleston/Springfield. That's the longest than I've spent there since I moved out of my parents house I think. That's about long enough for me too, thanks.
Overall, not a bad holiday. Less stressful than many years. No weird or embarrassingly bad gifts, and even the stress over my uncle and his high-maintenance girlfriend wasn't too bad. There was a major leak at mom & dad's last night, but all is supposedly ok with that now.
I did not finish my sweater in time to wear. In fact, it's probably not going to be done for another week. The sleeves were more difficult than I thought they'd be. I'm home with reference books now, so it should be ok soon.
I don't often have a moment from Christmas that I know I'll remember forever, but I did this year: my grandma's reaction to my gift to her. We exchange names on Thanksgiving, so everyone just buys one gift, and I'd requested grandma's name. I knitted her a sweater vest, in her favorite color of green. I had snuck across the room to watch her open it. First, she opened up the turtleneck I got her to go with it and said she liked the color. I told her to open the other box because they coordinated. She opened the second box and had just started remarking on the color, when she saw the "Made By..." tag with my name on it sewn into the neck. She absolutely lost it and started crying, which made me start crying as I went to hug her. By the time I stood back up, my mom and my sister had tears in their eyes too. It was terribly sweet. I had tons of clothes as a child that she'd sewn, that had those same tags in there with her name on them...so there was a lot of emotion there. My family's not very demonstrative emotionally, so this tiny little moment was just incredible.
We all broke up our sapfest when my mom's twin sister's husband noticed mom getting weepy and accused her jokingly of not liking the pajamas he'd gotten her. So we got ourselves composed in a way befitting my family.
I'm wiped out now, and cold, so I'll now be getting into a hot bath, then going to bed. And I'll catch up on all y'all later. :-)
Overall, not a bad holiday. Less stressful than many years. No weird or embarrassingly bad gifts, and even the stress over my uncle and his high-maintenance girlfriend wasn't too bad. There was a major leak at mom & dad's last night, but all is supposedly ok with that now.
I did not finish my sweater in time to wear. In fact, it's probably not going to be done for another week. The sleeves were more difficult than I thought they'd be. I'm home with reference books now, so it should be ok soon.
I don't often have a moment from Christmas that I know I'll remember forever, but I did this year: my grandma's reaction to my gift to her. We exchange names on Thanksgiving, so everyone just buys one gift, and I'd requested grandma's name. I knitted her a sweater vest, in her favorite color of green. I had snuck across the room to watch her open it. First, she opened up the turtleneck I got her to go with it and said she liked the color. I told her to open the other box because they coordinated. She opened the second box and had just started remarking on the color, when she saw the "Made By..." tag with my name on it sewn into the neck. She absolutely lost it and started crying, which made me start crying as I went to hug her. By the time I stood back up, my mom and my sister had tears in their eyes too. It was terribly sweet. I had tons of clothes as a child that she'd sewn, that had those same tags in there with her name on them...so there was a lot of emotion there. My family's not very demonstrative emotionally, so this tiny little moment was just incredible.
We all broke up our sapfest when my mom's twin sister's husband noticed mom getting weepy and accused her jokingly of not liking the pajamas he'd gotten her. So we got ourselves composed in a way befitting my family.
I'm wiped out now, and cold, so I'll now be getting into a hot bath, then going to bed. And I'll catch up on all y'all later. :-)
