feeling loved...

a few moments from yesterday...

- feeling warm and loved while listening to a holiday CD compilation that someone sent me, even though I'm not part of any exchanges;

- cuddling in midday in a dark room, reconnecting with someone else after a hard 24 hours;

- the flash of light in another person's eyes, face-to-face when arriving (separately) at a party, and more aw-shucks cuddliness;

- a small, held hand while skating.

Christmas pageant notes

My three kids will be in a Christmas pageant on Wednesday, 12/22 from 6-6:45pm at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Mountain View. They're actually doing a meta-pageant, story about a family stranded in a blizzard seeking shelter and finding a pageant rehearsal, so it has both the usual roles and separate family roles... James, my oldest, is the father while David and Kevin are rehearsing shepherds in the story-within-a-story.

Anyone local is welcome to join us for the show in a couple of weeks... we'll be getting dinner afterwards, but it is early enough that anyone interested in joining us could still make it afterward to dawnd's for carolling, or to sunset_and_port. And I don't have skating that Wednesday...

Other notes... gender roles, with all of the little girls cast as angels (white flowing robes... and *sparkly wands*??), the little boys as shepherds (immediately recasting themselves as Jedi knights as soon as they put on the robes). Why no little boy angels? Never mind, I know the answer... too uncool in little-boy social circles ;).

Shared benefits

My bag of mistletoe has an extra sprig... anyone want it?