My three ships are in–Brendan from L-ville, Ian from Glendale, Caitlan from England. They are my comfort, my support, my purpose. They are unconditional love. They breathe Wayne and reflect the influence of Joe. They are the immortality of a special union.

Amazingly, it was a good day. We awoke late, having been to Midnight Mass the night before. Caitlan and I sang for the last time at St. Mark as Kyle, Brendan, and Ian watched and sang with us from the pews. There was a harpist and after my experience with harp music on Thursday, it was especially meaningful. Father Jim sang the eucharistic prayer beautifully. We saw Jackie and Bob. Now I can move on in 2006. It is the right time.

We opened our stockings and invited Greg Brown into the house (he thought it was GREG DAY because he got three dog biscuits at once). Then we ate our traditional Christmas snacking brunch–pistachios, shrimp cocktail with Ritz crackers and cream cheese, fruit, smoked edam, cookies, sweets, Spanish peanuts, chips with jalapeno cheese dip, summer sausage and pepperoni, and buckeyes. We opened presents and played games. I am now a totally tech mom with an MP3 player the size of a Bic lighter that Brendan says is “it that cannot be named.” Now I have no excuses for not walking my 11+ miles per week to get rid of my belly fat. Greg will like that.

Then we went for a late dinner at the McBrayers with much laughter and camaraderie. Some things are meant to last. We played a rousing session of OUTBURST with the glasses vs. the no-glasses (Frank was kind of in between), and the no-glasses won, but not by much. We all went to see NARNIA (except for Frank who was on call), and I really enjoyed it. I was not sure that a movie could do the book justice, but I think it did. Then back home (to Deb’s–thanks, friend) for Ian to go play with his buddies, and Caitlan to fall asleep reading her new Garth Nix book, and Brendan and me to play dominoes (only one game–we got too tired). I fixed Brendan Cadbury hot chocolate that KK brought from England, and I had some of Deb’s Earl Gray/lavender tea. We called Mombo and Pops & Edie and wished them Merry Christmas.
A blessed day.

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