last week of dec 2009:

For the week between Christmas and New Years I was worried that the kids would get bored so I offered to take them to DC to have lunch with Dad and see some sights. They both said they’d rather stay home and play with their new toys. Casey asked, half jokingly, if this meant that toys were now officially more interesting that Daddy. For the rest of the week we enjoyed each other’s company and played with the new toys hardly needing to go anywhere else. We did go up to our visit our friends Jim and Lynn and Dave and Julie on New Year’s Eve for a slumber party with the kids, and we went to my friend Claudine’s for a gift exchange on Saturday the 2nd, but other than that we took it easy. When it came time for the kids to go back to school they were disappointed that the holiday was over and I couldn’t get either one to admit that they’d be happy to see their school friends again. I'll take that as a sign that they had a really good time on their break, and that was the plan!