We had a pretty good Christmas season this year. J performed for the last time at his school’s lower school holiday musical program. W was scheduled to serve at early evening vigil Mass, but he was rescheduled to Holy Family Mass on Sunday.
The boys got a lot of Xbox games and related things. J finally got Minecraft for Xbox, which he was surprised and frankly ecstatic to get. Unfortunately, in order to get on the Internet, we have to have Xbox Live, which I don’t want to pay for.
Hsuan’s relatives showed up on Christmas Day. The relatives included her uncle, who works at APL, and her cousin Alan, who was a Caltech undergraduate, so I have some things in common with them. They had wanted to go out for Chinese food, but I had insisted on frying up a Christmas turkey dinner. William and I did the turkey, just as at Thanksgiving, but we added a Sriracha rub after the overnight brine. The result was a remarkably tangy turkey skin.
Finally, Hsuan and I got Apple Watches. I convinced her to get one and to let me get one, on sale for $100 off at Target. It was probably the least effort I’ve put into successfully convincing her of anything.