Friday, December 26, 2008

Christmas 2008 AAR...

Let's see... random observations about Christmas this year.




  • The Wii was a far far bigger hit than I thought it would be - and I expected it would be big. The only issue so far has been that they both want to play (big shock) which means we'll need to be getting another controller stat.

  • It was a very electronic Xmas: The kids got the Wii and more DS games, we got a replacement DVD player, and Mrs. G. got a new digital camera, a Magellan GPS, and an iPod shuffle.

  • My body does NOT like it when I overindulge. Holy cow. I've spent the entire morning, uh, evacuating the previous day's overindulgence...

  • Letting the kids stay in their pajamas and play with their new toys all morning (and all afternoon so far) is about a hundred billion times better than screaming at them to clean the house. Even if it is less productive...

  • Watching BabyGirl G play "Disney Princess" on the Wii is quite possibly the cutest thing I've seen in weeks...

  • We spent about 6 hours with my folks and my sister yesterday. I love them dearly, but that's about 5 hours too many.

  • My mom is an amazing cook, and I really need to spend more time learning from her. It's going to fall on me to pass the torch to my kids, and I don't want to pass on a legacy of Shake 'n' Bake chicken and frozen meatballs...




That is all.

4 comments:

AnarchAngel said...

I got my wife and kids the Wii, and conspired with our friends to get her another wiimote and nunchuck, and a couple games.

She wants the Wii fit now... god help us.

Old NFO said...

And how many sets of batteries???

Jay G said...

Chris,

Yeah, Mrs. G. has hinted to that effect as well... The whole Christmas chocolate effect and all that... (I didn't help, either - I got her a large bag of her favorite Lindt chocolates...)

As for the kids, well, we made a significant tactical error in not buying a second controller and nunchuk, but that oversight will be remedied early next week when Mrs. G. takes them to the giant box store of electronic happiness...

Old NFO,

All I can say re: batteries is that I'm glad we shop at warehouse stores... The Boy needed a whole bunch for his new shootin' gallery (pics forthcoming, heh), and the remotes for the Wii, plus about 7 or 8 different radio controlled vehicles of some sort, and...

Yeah. We're a veritable Superfund site with all the batteries around the G. household...

JD said...

Take a look on Amazon for the controler, we got one with the Wii "Wii Play" as part of the bundle. You should check BJ's for deals too!

Good Luck