Well, my eldest son and his wife were expecting their first child around Thanksgiving...didn't happen...finally two weeks ago they went to a specialist  and he told them that she was low in amniotic fluid and needed to have the baby within 48 hours.  so they went right to the hospital and she was induced.  so on December 8th, my new granddaughter Sydney Mache Foye was born in Austin.  only 6lbs though!    I wanted to wait until they got home to go see her...but my son asked me to wait another week.  I went to visit on Saturday ..got to hold the baby and visit for a while, took them to their favorite mexican restaurant for lunch and generally had a good time, then I left to go back home so they could have time to finish getting ready for the horde descending upon them christmas eve.  

My younger son and my daughter, her husband and her daughter drove to my place saturday on their way to San Marcos (the eldest's home) and we had dinner and gift exchange and singing and general visiting .  they then left to continue to my eldest's where they celebrated christmas along with my Ex.  so i just had a quiet christmas alone today.

  My tradition for the past 10 years or more has been to read Dicken's Christmas Carol, which took an hour or so..what i find a little strange is that when i read it, I see Mr. Magoo as Ebeneezer Scrooge...and the rest of the cast of Mr. Magoo's Chritmas Carol (think i've seen it far too often...at least 30 times in the last 45 years?) .  didn't watch a lot of christmas shows...but then i've seen all of the movies in my collection so often that i don't need to see them more than every couple of years.  I did watch all three Santa Clause movies just because! LOL

have a great New Year everyone.

Current Music: Constant Christmas Music ....100 discs on my cd changer.