Luciadagen

Yesterday was Luciadagen, and Carmela had just been in the preschool Lucia pageant when the House of Linux and I arrived at Casa Windows.

Brother Linux and I spent a good while making a Lucia crown for her out of cardboard, paper (pages torn from my sketchbook - good thing I brought my coloured pencils) and tape, and then Lady Linux and I made a mini triplet-sized one too. Carmela informed us that she was the City's real Lucia and that she would be tomorrow, too. She spent a long time pacing in a dignified manner and singing, especially after a red ribbon was found to tie around her waist.



At bedtime she only agreed to change into her nightgown because she could still be Lucia in it, just with a different dress, and I was commissioned to draw her in it and to make sure the nightdress had plenty of hearts on it. (Ciara, who bids fair to being the smartest member of her family, pointed at the former drawing and said triumphantly, "CARMELA!", whereupon she was praised, head-ruffled, squeezed and possibly turned upside-down.)



Loke doesn't look very glad to be Lucia.

HAHAHHAHH <3

All the pictures my dad has uploaded to Facebook are of ROCKS.

household staples

I've got to start remembering to buy some actual food at the grocery store, and not just five different kinds of expensive tea, a bag of out-of-season over-priced domestic tomatoes, and a huge bar of chocolate (I'm pretty sure it's not my imagination that the checkout boy was giving me a funny Look for that). I tend to remember to buy food (as opposed to chocolate and tea, which I rarely forget) only when I'm actually hungry while shopping, unless I have a list, even if we're out of almost everything.

In other news, we still haven't bought a baby Christmas tree yet. I suppose that expedition (along with Channukah paper, Christmas ribbons for packages - my parents almost never used ribbons, but they seem to be de rigeur in Wax's family - and red things to go on the tree, or possibly white things) is slated for Wax's next day off. I can't wait all the way till after Channukah to do the tree, because then we'd barely get to look at it, since it's not till the 21st.