Christmas 2007
This morning my brother Seth left my house, with Lindsay having left for home the day before, and my mother venturing off to Colorado the day before that. The rare gathering of most of my family in one place is over for yet another special occasion.
All the pictures I took are here. I would hope my other siblings would post their pictures in the same gallery, but they’re notoriously lazy about doing so.
I received some wonderful and generous gifts from my family this year. Rebecca commissioned a reproduction of Andrea Mantegna’s The Lamentation Over the Dead Christ), which is one of the few works of art that I find actually compelling. My parents and grandmother went in on a Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, which I’ve been wanting badly but was not willing to get for myself (about which more later). My brother Bob, who was too busy manning an oil rig to join us, set up a Skype video call on my laptop so the whole family could see and talk to him, even if he wasn’t there himself.
Overall I expected this Christmas to be somewhat disappointing, given Bob’s absence and Mom’s departure the next day. While in Christmas Eve mass the night before, surrounded by stifling air and screaming children, it seemed I was right. But once Christmas day rolled around it was actually quite nice, and I ended up staying w/ my family a day latter than I planned.