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I hope you’ve had a Merry Christmas

 Merry Christmas! Ours was pretty good. 

Quick backtrack to Thanksgiving: We just did a small early dinner in Gramma Wanda’s backyard. It was warn and we ended up taking jackets off as well as ate inside. Torstein came with us to hang out with Sophie to be weirdo’s together. Ro also lost both of his front teeth and another bottom tooth that week.

On a few Saturdays around that time, Ro went to a sort of Nasa coding camp at Fresno State since we had a break from golf. He ended being sick for two out of the three sessions, but he enjoyed the content. I also got a free community library card at the Fresno State library (job perk) and spent a lot of time knitting at Collect Coffee. Ro said he didn’t like spending a lot of time away from home though. He’s registered for baseball in spring, will be doing golf all year, and planning on tennis in summer (no refunds on that one for rain though the other two are flexible/flat rate). 

Ro had a winter show at his school. The cafeteria was absolutely packed tough only four first grade classes participated. Ro was hoping they would let them hold the lyrics during the show, but they didn’t. The singing was pretty sparse during the verses and loud (screaming) during the refrains. He had fun though. 

We had our band winter concert somewhere between there. There was a neat song blending the Ukrainian bell carol and “House of the Rising Sun.” It had many sforzandos that made being a trombonist worthwhile. Ro really enjoyed the Sun Chips decorating the trees — one of the songs was “Deck the Halls with Chips and Salsa,” which was also fun though repetitive. He says his favorite was a lyrical arrangement of “La Cucaracha” that had followed “Deck the Halls.” The whole recording can be found on somewhere on YouTube.  

Ro’s teeth were halfway in by the time Christmas rolled around. We spent Christmas Eve dinner at PF Chang’s then watching a slideshow for B’s family at Gramma Wanda’s. Ro made it to bed in time for Santa to fill a stocking the next day with a tennis racket, baseball sunglasses, junior tennis balls, and a Terry’s chocolate orange. Other gifts he got were a penguin adoption kit from Antarctica, solar rover kit, Streatoropoly, and a transforming remote control car. 

I had just managed to finish knitting the stocking in time, too. 

We went to Sharon’s for dinner later with her niece that evening. Ro stuffed himself with cheese and crackers before dinner. Sharon mentioned that her Christmas card bounced back, and she says hi. 

Hope everything has been going well for you. We’ve been dealing with colds off and on, but nothing too serious. 

I love you and miss you. 


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