Frou Frou Gypsy in Combat Boots

OK, so my kids got some money for Christmas. This is two of the things my DS HAD TO HAVE! seriously? he's 7! He knew who they were....what they've composed, and which one is which! they come with a link for a printable paper model of a piano...of course we will be making those for him as soon as we have some ink for our printer! He loves them! They ride in the car with us, they fight with each other about who is the best composer...he even argues with his 4 yr old sister that they are composers not conductors ! Seriously. How is this child mine? I think it's awesome though!

When i was a kid, Christmas was somehow different. it wasn't that i was the one getting all the gifts instead of giving them...it was a feeling. It was the family. Way back then, there were obviously less of us. The 6 "grandchildren" were kids , so that takes out the extra husbands and wives as well as the "great-grand kids" so that's 14 people of our "little group" who didn't exist yet, at least in our world. Every year we would go to one of the 3 "kids" houses, my mom's or one of her brother's homes. We'd go and have a big Christmas lunch, turkey and dressing, ham and potato salad, green bean casserole, and all the other sides you can imagine. The Grandchildren were always keyed up wanting to see and hear what Santa had brought the others. Not so patiently waiting to open Christmas gifts after lunch. As the grandchildren grew older we began to realize that the aunts and uncles weren't getting gifts and we didn't...