Found out just last week that my mom will be visiting us from out west for a week at Christmas. It will be very fun to have her visit here - it will be her first time out since we moved into this house last year. I just sent a bit of a stream-of-consciousness e-mail to her a few minutes ago, and it struck me somewhat like a journal entry.
( I excerpted from the letter here )
( I excerpted from the letter here )