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Dec. 26th, 2010 01:56 pmThis morning I finally got around to tackling the masses of dishes that have been piling up in the sink since Friday (possibly Thursday; I can't remember now which was the first night that I thought, "Y'know, those will just have to wait.").
I am kinda embarrassed to admit that, and in fact for much of the weekend I winced every time I walked through the kitchen. But when I actually got around to *doing* the dishes (with enthusiastic assistance from the BG, if by assistance you mean splashing water all over the kitchen), I ran across reminders of other things I did this weekend: baking cookies for Santa; preparing my favorite sweet potato recipe (not the one with marshmallows, but one from the old Joy of Cooking that calls for orange juice) for Christmas dinner at my mom's; starting a batch of apple butter in the crock pot.
The truth is, I got done all the things I really *wanted* to do this weekend, and it was absolutely well worth the transitory guilt of going to bed with dirty dishes in the sink for two (three?) nights running.
Christmas with a 3-year-old is mostly a ton of fun, start to finish -- the shopping is fun, because they like almost anything and there are a zillion good toys that are safe for three-and-up. They are old enough to get Santa, and young enough not to doubt for a second that he's real. The BG crashed a bit when she realized there were no new treats to be uncovered, but she rallied when she realized now she'd have a chance to actually play with all her loot.
I hope everyone else out there had as much fun this weekend as we did, whether you celebrated Christmas or went to the movies (if you're looking for a good one, I highly recommend the True Grit remake) or played in the snow or stayed inside with a book.
In closing, I offer two random links that might prove enjoyable:
Google Ngrams (http://ngrams.googlelabs.com) graphs the prevalence over time of specific words within a selected body of books. Hard to explain, fun to try.
John Scalzi's Interview With the Nativity Innkeeper (http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/12/21/an-interview-with-the-nativity-innkeeper) made me laugh.
I am kinda embarrassed to admit that, and in fact for much of the weekend I winced every time I walked through the kitchen. But when I actually got around to *doing* the dishes (with enthusiastic assistance from the BG, if by assistance you mean splashing water all over the kitchen), I ran across reminders of other things I did this weekend: baking cookies for Santa; preparing my favorite sweet potato recipe (not the one with marshmallows, but one from the old Joy of Cooking that calls for orange juice) for Christmas dinner at my mom's; starting a batch of apple butter in the crock pot.
The truth is, I got done all the things I really *wanted* to do this weekend, and it was absolutely well worth the transitory guilt of going to bed with dirty dishes in the sink for two (three?) nights running.
Christmas with a 3-year-old is mostly a ton of fun, start to finish -- the shopping is fun, because they like almost anything and there are a zillion good toys that are safe for three-and-up. They are old enough to get Santa, and young enough not to doubt for a second that he's real. The BG crashed a bit when she realized there were no new treats to be uncovered, but she rallied when she realized now she'd have a chance to actually play with all her loot.
I hope everyone else out there had as much fun this weekend as we did, whether you celebrated Christmas or went to the movies (if you're looking for a good one, I highly recommend the True Grit remake) or played in the snow or stayed inside with a book.
In closing, I offer two random links that might prove enjoyable:
Google Ngrams (http://ngrams.googlelabs.com) graphs the prevalence over time of specific words within a selected body of books. Hard to explain, fun to try.
John Scalzi's Interview With the Nativity Innkeeper (http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/12/21/an-interview-with-the-nativity-innkeeper) made me laugh.