{"id":802,"date":"2007-12-26T02:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T06:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/12\/26\/tuesday-evening-christmas\/"},"modified":"2007-12-26T02:43:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T06:43:00","slug":"tuesday-evening-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/12\/26\/tuesday-evening-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday evening – Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today was a wonderfully slow and peaceful day…   We managed to sleep until around 8 when Chai the alarm dog jumped up into bed with us. She’s not ‘sposed to do that.. but .. hey.. this is christmas !<\/div>\n

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The boys wondered in a little later on.. this is a far cry from the 5:30 or 6AM Christmas mornings of years past. The easy and low key beginning signaled the tone of the rest of the day…  <\/div>\n

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Diane and I wandered downstairs to find out that Chai had already identified her stocking and had proceeded to pull out her toys.. <\/div>\n

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The guys came down a few minutes later.. we’ve always had the ttradition of video taping them coming down the stairs.That was a hard moment for me…  It was cool to see them bringing one of the Sam lamps down with them.<\/div>\n

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First things first.. we went for the stockings..    Sam’s is there in the middle.. as is our bird Gabby who passed on more than 2 years ago..  Hey live on with us too…   Gabby’s stocking had a wad of Suet for the birds outside.. Sam’s was filled with the glass SamStones that I made with Chris and cards for the two donations we made in Sam’s honor. One was a years training of a Mayan midwife in rural Mexico we made through the Seva Foundation<\/a> (www.seva.org) .. And the other was a donation of three goats to a rural family which we made through the Heifer International<\/a> (www.heifer.org). Both of these charities support sustainable communities in the emerging world.  <\/div>\n

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From there we launched into opening presents… including this stylish foot ware being modeled by the boys.. <\/div>\n

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Here we are at the other end of the process.. It was a very nice morning.. I really liked that Diane got me gun powder and a welding torch.. Did I marry the right girl or what ?!  (ok.. so I chose them.. but still… ) <\/div>\n

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Around 11is we had breakfast.. our holiday tradition of crepes and smoked salmon . We kept one of Sam’s lanterns burning throughout the day (it’s still burning.. I note at 9PM) . <\/div>\n

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The rest of the afternoon was amazingly quiet.. the boys got immersed in a new video game.. <\/p>\n
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Diane went out for a snowshoe with Chai and I fell asleep for a couple of hours.. My fever seemed to break and I woke up feeling pretty good. I managed to get a few hours of welding in on the rail I’m building for Gabe. <\/p>\n

Around 6 it was time to eat again….  <\/div>\n

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Now we’re all about to settle in for a movie..’The Hebrew Hammer’ ..that Max got for me.  a Saturday night live spoof on a Jewish action hero.. yeah.. right.. .. The quiet end of a quiet day.. <\/p>\n

So much has changed with our family.. yet.. we are still so lucky.. We have so much love between us.. <\/p>\n

Merry Christmas everyone.. Merry Christmas Sam.. we love you very much
-me<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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