home is where you never take off your pajamas

Ah, the joys of being home.
Boggle cleaning: playing Boggle to 20 and then cleaning for as many minutes as the top scorer. Note: for best results, play with more people, so that the game lasts much longer than the cleaning.
Wegmans: I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't live in western NY. Where do they eat chicken wings, run into everyone who went to high school with you, and buy your father Christmas presents because he doesn't like material goods?
Gossip: dude, Mrs. so-and-so's husband is GAY!
Icing cookies: my mom made me one in the shape of Europe.
Christmas tree cutting: Andrea spends two hours trying to get everyone to agree to go out and slog through the woods looking for a tree to saw down (only one that's growing too close to other trees.) Surprisingly painless this year.
THE STOVE: the force that binds my family together, drawn to its 600 degree warmth like... cold people to a flame.