Christmas Spirit

So far, we REALLY like the Christmas season in the new house! We actually have room for the Christmas tree. And we have taken to ending the evening by lounging on the couch with the light of the fire and tree. It's very warm and cozy!

All the snuggles!

Steve is home today while the chimney guys put in a new liner. Apparently, it's an all day job. And an expensive one! But, it will allow us to keep enjoying all the fires! Worth it.

Wm only has a couple more weeks of school before finals and then the end of the semester. He's still on track to complete his math and science classes this term and start new ones next. I think he also gets a new English class. They're reading a Neil Gaiman book that Wm has already read right now in his lit class. But, he forgot most of it, so it's like reading it for the first time! He gets REALLY mad because, apparently, they read some of it out loud in class and he can't abide the slowness of the progress reading that way. Ha!

Jess sent me this and said it reminded her of Flip and Schroeder. The only difference is that Flip has stopped trying to play with Schroeder and now just wants to murder him. And, of course, Schroeder has always wanted to murder Flip.

In fact, I took a funny video of them "playing." I was telling a friend that Flip can't ever snarl because whenever he tries to really curl his lip, it makes him sneeze. So here he is sneezing his way through an attempted snarl fight with Schroeder: