Merry Christmas all!  The cat is outta the bag and Grace has her "big" presa.  Her oldest and dearest is coming to spend February vacation with us.  I wish I'd thought to record it.  There were many tears.  So cute.  For GP I booked a session of rock-climbing lessons.  He's wanted to do mountain climbing for years and has in fact gone with a friend once but I'd rather he knew what he was doing so I hooked him up with these.  He loves the mountains and this should be fun.  Then an hours long lunch with MIL and great Aunt and cousin from across the hall.  As usual I ate/drank too much and am now considering crawling into bed at 7pm.  Ah the holidays.

The Italians

Merry Christmas!!!  xxoo me