Sugar Sweet Day

We're in Indiana tonight. Kevin is sound asleep--we had a long, full day.

This morning was Breakfast with Santa at Purdue. Haylee and family, Paige, Josh and Rob and the Pontos. Along with three or four hundred other people. The kids had a good time with plenty of sugar consumed while the adults were worn out and making a futile attempt to minimize the concrete sticky qualities of pancake syrup and candy canes. I'll post some photos later. It'll take some time to wade through the 200 or so shots I took.

We spent the afternoon at Haylee's house with her family and Paige, Rob and Josh. Wimmin-folk in the kitchen overseeing the cookie baking, men playing the Wii game in the next room.

Wise decision by the men. The kitchen was like Ground Zero for a sugar overload. Testosterone made an occasional kitchen appearance when Haylee's dad, Jeff, showed us the proper way to decorate a cookie, Josh dabbled in the effort or Rob wandered through for a tasting.

Kevin napped for a while and tried to generally stay out of the line of fire as cookie dough and sprinkles flew through the kitchen. Haylee and Josh sampled cookie dough, decorations and plenty of icing that never saw it's way to a cookie. The floor was sugar crunchy under a snowy coating of flour and Haylee capped the moment by drinking the sugar decorations straight out of the bowl!

It's good that Paige and Tamra were more interested in the kids having a good time than in producing picture perfect cookies! Jeff and I attempted to restore a little order to the decorating plan but we were out manned by the mommies and Josh and Haylee.

Kevin and I shook off the flour and went to the Vigil Mass at St. Tom's then out to dinner with Joannie, Zelda and Charlotte. The patient staff of the Akropolis seemed glad to see us go so they could lock the front doors for the evening. A fun but calm ending to a busy day.

It was great to spend time with some of our favorite people. A sweet day, indeed.