A Geeky Family Christmas

Was your holiday as geeky as ours? Normally this wouldn’t be a term I’d use to describe our family, but this year was a little different.

We started out our holiday with the impending snow storm of 2009. Like the neurotic winter driver that I am, I started worrying about driving on bad roads about a week before the first snow flake fell. The plan was for me to take the kids and dog with me from Minnesota to South Dakota a day early, with my husband about a day behind us.

This is Geeky Point 1) We drove separately out of state to my parents.

Living in Minnesota can be interesting, and we are used to adjusting our schedules around the weather. Therefore, I pulled the kids out of school a little early to get on the road before the bad weather. As it turned out, we arrived at my parents about two days before the storm arrived.

We had a great holiday playing games with the kids, eating lots of food, making a trip to Barnes and Noble, playing out in the snow, etc. During a great game of Quiddler (which I highly recommend BTW) my sister, oldest daughter, and I looked up to see this:

This is Geeky Point 2) My six year old was walking on her monkey stompers, wearing a pair of goggles. It was hilarious.

Later that day we watched the Griswolds have their Christmas plans ruined by geeky uncle Eddie. It’s a family tradition in our family to watch that movie, as it doesn’t make our own seem quite so crazy. I also got the chance to see “Ralphy” walk down the stairs in the pink bunny outfit his aunt sewed for him in “A Christmas Story”.

The final episode was our family Christmas picture, complete with our ugly sweaters we had prepared.

Final Geeky Point needs NO further explanation:

We had a great Christmas break, as I took the kids and spent an extra week in NW South Dakota at my husband’s parents too. It was really nice to have extra time to visits and get away from our routine.

How was your Christmas?