As usual, I have no update worth reporting, so I'll merely fill space with some holiday notes: The kids and I officially begin our holiday season this coming weekend, marked by the annual Kinderconzert at Tosa West high school. The Kinderconzert is a fundraising event for the Tosa West orchestra. The kids get to visit Santa, experiment with real violins and other instruments, make crafts, eat snacks, and watch the orchestra perform a short concert featuring all the fun, traditional Christmas songs. We've gone every year since moving to Wauwatosa over eleven years ago. After the Kinderconzert, we buy, set up, and decorate our Christmas tree. It will be a lot of fun and the kids are looking forward to it.
This is also the time of year I begin watching the library of Christmas movies we've acquired over the past 15 years. I jumped in with both feet this past weekend and tortured myself by watching "Love, Actually" while I wrapped some of the kids' Christmas presents. "Love, Actually" is an intelligent and charming (but R-rated) movie that weaves together various interrelated story lines--each illustrating a different kind of love: the love between spouses, the love between friends, the love between a parent and child, etc. If you give any credibility to my endorsement, then I recommend you only watch it with someone you love--or with someone you want to make fall in love with you by the end of the movie. It has that effect . . .
Jeff's favorite Christmas movie (and perhaps also his favorite movie of all-time) was It's a Wonderful Life. I look forward to watching it for its obvious analogies . . .
Well, it's very late and I'm tired, but I wanted to post something--anything. So, I'm sorry this is short and indiscriminate. I'll try to come up with something really noteworthy for next time! Until then . . .
Goodnight,
Kelly
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as usual Kelly, even your "generic" updates read like an excerpt from a bestseller. THe upcoming concert ritual (and view of Its a Wonderful Life) sound like they will be Christmas highlights. There's actually a book you and your children might like called "It's a Wonderful Life (for Kids)" (Jimmy Hawkins). Just wanted to pass that along : )
The kinderconzert sounds cool. I wish Ogallala still had fantasy land. You kids always enjoyed it and so did I. Jim called and told me to rent Step Brothers. I'm going to watch it this weekend. I've seen the clips of it and they are really funny. I told him to rent Get Smart. It's funny too. As far as Christmas movies, I also like "It's a Wonderful Life", "The old version of Miracle on 34th St, and "The Christmas Story" with Ralphie. I never get tired of watching those shows each year. Love, Mom
Kelly,
I like the Christmas movie "Elf" it always makes me laugh and by boys think it hialrious that he eats cotton balls and syrup on his spaghetti. Actually if you watch that movie it kinda of makes you want to eat spaghetti with syrup, I was really close one night to actually trying it and this was when I wasn't pregnant.
Terri
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