merry christmas, happy yuletide
Dec. 28th, 2013 04:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cahnMerry Christmas and Happy Yuletide, somewhat late. I am currently celebrating my husband and brother-in-law obtaining working wireless for my parents-in-law (both husband and his brother were like, "Parents! This is unacceptable Here is a nice working wireless router for a Christmas present!"). My in-laws are the most awesome people ever, have I mentioned that? They're just this really nice, wholesome, dependable Midwestern Lutheran family, very sweet, very nice, not at all prone to the emotional drama of, um, another family I might be conversant with. Every single one of them is really nice! Is that not totally weird?!
E is, to my great relief, very much enjoying her cousins, particularly the girl cousin who is about 1.5 years older; they are both much less extreme people than they were last time we saw them (maybe 9 months ago, we suck as relatives) and get along a lot better. She has been walking in the snow and sledding and playing games with her cousins and she is never gonna want to leave. Also, all the girl cousins got adorable "poochie" doggy purses which they all absolutely adore; the feminist parts of me (and of my sister-in-law who is the cousins' mother) are completely overshadowed by the parts of me (and sister-in-law) who think it is totally cute that all three of them carry them around everywhere and love them madly.
Yuletide: Assignment recipient seems to have liked my gift, which is quite a great relief for a couple of different reasons I'll talk about at reveals. The treat also seems to be doing quite well with recipient and otherwise. Due to Doing Family Togetherness Things, I haven't been reading as much as I might have otherwise, but I do have some recs, including my present, which if you persist past the SPAG issues (and what 11k (!!) fic wouldn't have those, I expect) is a lovely People (Zenna Henderson) fic.
E is, to my great relief, very much enjoying her cousins, particularly the girl cousin who is about 1.5 years older; they are both much less extreme people than they were last time we saw them (maybe 9 months ago, we suck as relatives) and get along a lot better. She has been walking in the snow and sledding and playing games with her cousins and she is never gonna want to leave. Also, all the girl cousins got adorable "poochie" doggy purses which they all absolutely adore; the feminist parts of me (and of my sister-in-law who is the cousins' mother) are completely overshadowed by the parts of me (and sister-in-law) who think it is totally cute that all three of them carry them around everywhere and love them madly.
Yuletide: Assignment recipient seems to have liked my gift, which is quite a great relief for a couple of different reasons I'll talk about at reveals. The treat also seems to be doing quite well with recipient and otherwise. Due to Doing Family Togetherness Things, I haven't been reading as much as I might have otherwise, but I do have some recs, including my present, which if you persist past the SPAG issues (and what 11k (!!) fic wouldn't have those, I expect) is a lovely People (Zenna Henderson) fic.
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Date: 2013-12-30 12:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-12-30 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-12-31 04:46 am (UTC)Every single one of them is really nice! Is that not totally weird?
YES. It is weird. (I am also in the bosom of a family who is really nice, but there are eight of them, and I'm more a one-on-one person, and this is... eight-on-one. Argh.)
I am swimming in a fabulous sea of Yuletide/YAGKYAS stories... it's heavenly, and my reading list is about three pages long. I can't wait to get some unfettered time.
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Date: 2014-01-02 10:16 am (UTC)*grin* Yeah. There are six other adults in D's family (besides D and me), and five other children (besides E). I hear you about being one-on-one. Although I love them madly, and D and I continually remark on how they're amazingly low on the drama, they're all rather group-oriented, and there's something nice about now being with my family, which is much more a one-on-one sort of family.