Denise teaching Sofia how to play Candy Land
Continuing our recent family tradition of spending Christmas at our house with my side of the family (usually just my sister Susie, but this year my cousin and his wife too) then going to Louisiana a few days later to visit Denise’s side, we did so again this Christmas. Only it was more like New Year’s Eve by the time we got there. We had planned to leave earlier, but I had a project I needed to hammer on and required internet access to do some of the testing, and since there is none where we were going we put off our trip for a couple days.
Denise and I are definite homebodies. I would call us “cozy”; others would call us “boring”. Case in point: we stayed in on New Year’s Eve and played board games with Sofia. Well, some of us. I had to keep working, but took the occasional break to snap some photos. New Year’s Day was spent lazing around and hanging out with family. It’s a very small town thing to do, which suited both of us just fine.
So yeah, that’s what we did. Banality of life, yadda, yadda, etc., so on and so forth. Only people without purpose need life to be a thrill a minute. There’s a lot to enjoy in life if you take the time to be quiet and soak it in.
Pictures courtesy of Nifty Fifty:
"You can do it!"
Sofia found it helpful to encourage her little Candy Land guy and tell him to just do his best.
Me and my monkey
Sofia is a fast learner. She got the hang of Candy Land in no time. Next up: computer programming.
Down home cooking
Home-made red beans and rice, and Popeye’s fried chicken.
"Whaaaaaaat?"
"Nuh uh"
Miss Crazy-face strikes again.
3 generations
3 generations on my wife’s side of the family, harassing the junk out of each other in the kitchen.