merry merry

The kids have opened their gifts and we are now busy getting dinner ready, after which will be my son's birthday party (just cake and a gift--yes, he was born on Christmas). My youngest is sixteen today. He's all about Johnny Cash right now after I took him to see Walk the Line--I got him a really cool black shirt (wanted to find a Western-style one with pearl buttons, but there's naught to be found in SCruz) and a Cash CD collection. Walk the Line is definitely a must-see.

Well, happy holidays to all (and even Merry Christmas). Mr. Strega and I had to go to Walgreens last night for stocking stuffers (as usual, I forgot these until the last minute). There were some interesting gifts there, including a Jack Daniels gift set (with a big AND little bottle of Jack, and a shot glass). Mr. Strega did not buy this for me (one of my "silly" gifts from him, though, was a CD of Kimba the White Lion--I have to confess that I had a huge crying fit about age five or so when my family couldn't get home in time for me to see my Kimba show and I told Mr. Strega about this. Now he has healed my childhood, ). The Ben Lomond Mini-Mart also saved Christmas for us, as I had neither eggs nor butter--thank you to Masoud and all the gang there! Yay!

Must go baste turkey (our Christmas dinner is about the same as Thanksgiving, except that afterwards, we have cake and ice cream for my son's birthday). We also don't have homemade cranberry relish (there was not a cranberry to be found when we shopped at the last minute, so we have the canned kind--which the kids wanted anyway, as they missed the "stuff that comes out of the can, in the shape of the can"). Buon natale!