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We don't really do Christmas around here, but I had a fun day cooking, and then a nice evening eating and visiting with jwermont and sogwife. Nice, peaceful day.

Mom, to me earlier today: "Today's your last day for loud, crazy sex!"
Me: "Hey! I thought you said that was TMI!"
Her: "Not when I say it."

:-)

Yep, tomorrow we get our teenager back. I'm so glad.

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Well, a kindergartener could have made a better gingerbread Tardis. Still, it's just about done. REALLY really amateurishly done, but hey, we're genuine amateurs. :-)

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She's home safe. We're scarfing Thai-ish noodles (chicken, rice noodles, a sauce of half kecap manis, half fish sauce) and hanging out while we do our own thing. This is me being relieved and happy.

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It will probably surprise no one that the kid who loves to stay up until the wee hours crashed around 9:30 and is now out like a light.

No grumpiness, by the way -- she's been great. Just really glad to be home and a little manic, but she drank a bunch of Monster today, so that's to be expected. :-)

She missed my cooking. She missed her apple juice. She missed her bed. And she missed us.

So glad she's home.

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A little over six months ago, things happened in the Munchkin's family that meant she needed a place to live. The plan between me and someotherguy had always been that if I needed to take on a kid or two, we would rent a separate place for me and the kid(s) for the duration, and move back in together when it was over. I never expected him to take on a teenager, and this solution sounded doable to us both.

Then it happened, and someotherguy decided he would give the whole living-with-a-kid thing a try. He's been *amazing*, and never more than this week, when he's made a sweet little welcome-home-for-Christmas atmosphere for wtfpotatoes.

I am so lucky. wtfpotatoes is, too, to have this man as a member of her family. She's a typical teenager. He's an extraordinary man.

Thank you, James. I love you so much.