Christmas ‘07
I dreaded today (mainly the whole gift-giving thing), but it turned out to be really fun. The highlight was the build-up to Mohammed not getting a specific gift as everyone else opened theirs. Mona then asked Mohammed to go to the outside garage and get orange juice. He got all excited and smiley, and within seconds we heard a ‘No!’ which I thought was a happy sort of ‘No!’ because he got Rock Band.
Turns out that the Rock Band he got was not for his XBox360, but, a Playstation 3! Poor kid. That was so much worse than not getting Rock Band at all, let alone Maman telling him he couldn't have opened it anyway because of a grade in one class. We still couldn't help but laugh. Would his situation be an ironic paradox?
Family quirks aside, it was all good. I got a 1gb iPod Shuffle, so I can put on Pimsleur language programs and get fluent in Farsi and Japanese without relying on the laptop.
Tomorrow is going to be ridiculously busy. We're going to Illinois on Thursday. I'm going to miss the little munchkins.