Now I might actually finish King Solomon’s Mines, since I’ve finished The Secret Of the Swamp King and The Winged Watchman. Ah, it feels wonderful to sit and read for hours again. I haven’t done that in a long time.

I’ve been reading all day, so I read The Crystal Snowstorm and Beorn the Proud. Now I’ll go back to King Solomon’s Mines, which I started over the weekend.

Our kittens are getting so big and cute! On Christmas, after we finished opening presents, we brought all five kittens into the family room. We had so much fun dangling ribbons over their heads and watching them pounce on balls of wrapping paper. It’s amazing how fast those little balls of fur can move.

So… How was your Christmas? What awesome presents did y’all get? What awesome presents did you give?

I had an absolutely delightful Christmas. I love my family! They are the most awesome family in the world. (Though some of you might debate that!) On Christmas Eve, we went to our church’s late night service, then afterwards went to see this nativity creche thing. In the car, we had so much fun singing every Christmas song we could think of. Daddy was overtired, and when he gets overtired, he gets hilariously goofy, so he was singing with us and making us all die laughing. You must remember that our family is not musical, so none of our singing sounded at all pretty, we just had fun.

I almost forgot to open my own presents on Christmas morning, I was having so fun watching everyone else open theirs. I got two beautiful sweaters, a pair of clay earrings, and seven bookmarks, not to mention assorted other things. I collect bookmarks, so I always tell my sibs to make me bookmarks for holidays.

I gave two of my brothers each a story I had written about themselves, bound into a little book, with space for them to illustrate. The younger one got a crazy adventure story, in which he rides tigers, beats up an army of wildcats, and generally ignores logic and reason. For the older boy, I gave the story a little more substance, and he generally used brains more than brawn. Ah, I had so much fun writing those stories.

Wow, that was sorta a long post, so I’ll shut up now and let someone else tell about their holiday.

A villainess? Ooh, good, I love bad gals. :mrgreen: And a warrior mole sounds interesting.

I agree, Pip, most of the costumes at the end are hideous!!! Caspian’s in particular. 8O

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, written by a guy who flew in the Doolittle raid in WW2, then crashed landed in China.