I’m fortunate enough to have spent Christmases on three different continents, in places wild and luxurious, elegant and homey, familiar and bizarre. But I don’t know if I’ve ever had a happier one than the one we’re enjoying today at the Residence Inn in Roseville, California. I’m here with my wife’s family, visiting her relatives who are scattered across “Gold Country.” (We aren’t far from Auburn, where the Healthy is the New Skinny project launched earlier this month. More photos of that event are now up at the HNS site.)
Heloise is blissful, and wishes one and all a “Mahwee Crissmiss!” She has a new leather jacket and a small rubber ducky that lights up, and the latter brings her the greater pleasure. A happy holiday to all!
I’d say welcome to the wettest Xmas in memory, but hell, it would have been worse if you were back home. So, merry rainstorms from the other side of Sacramento.
And a happy Boxing Day to you too, mate.
Are you saying that she pronounces that r in merry wrong but the r in christmas right? That’s a good trick.