Christmas Day

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We spent Christmas Day at my mom and dad’s house.

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Here Kyle’s reading his new cookbook, Moosewood Restaurant Low-Fat Favorites.

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Christina is untying a present tag, each of which had a note from my dad.

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Katy and Tom made the delicious buckeyes this year.

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Sophie wore her Christmas outfit.

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Kyle, very excited about his gift membership to The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Sophie was very happy, too.

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She got an organic teether and two books—Vincent’s Colors and A Farmer’s Alphabet—from Katy and Tom.

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Here’s Kyle, holding up the old map of Bowling Green, Ohio, we got him.

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A quick family picture before Sophie’s outfit had to be changed (we were a bit negligent about changing her diaper when we first arrived).

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Mom, holding her French vintage linens from Au Trousseau with “DG” embroidered onto them.

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Dad, listening to Elton John sing. He got tickets to a Billy Joel and Elton John concert.

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Sophie loved her first tea set (although we told her she has to wait a little while until she’s old enough to use it).

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She was interested in the turkey,

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the tree,

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Christina and

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the glass snowflakes over the dining room table.

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She sat on Kyle’s lap,

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made some sounds he didn’t appreciate and

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then wondered why he was carrying on so much.

It was a good day.

“I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.” —Harlan Miller