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Well. Sad to say, I did not have as much done on the Day Before Christmas on my final unit of Tomb Kings as I'd like, despite David taking the kids out for a few hours in the afternoon so I could work on them. Therefore, once we got the kiddies to bed, the painting began in earnest once more.
My Christmas Eve went something like this:
11 to 3:30 -- painting 1 unit of skeleton warriors. Dear God.
3:30 to 4 -- finishing up stupid piddly stuff while David moved on to basing and spraying them. Consuming copious amounts of caffiene to keep me up through the next part.
4 to 6:30 -- wrapping presents for the kiddos. Worrying about how bare it still looked under the tree.
6:30 to 7:00 -- being paranoid that the kids will be up any second, cleaning up scraps, putting away paint stuff, blowing on the last minis to make sure they're dry, forgetting then remembering stockings and the stuff to go in them, taking a bath, and generally falling over.
8:00 AM -- being woken up excitedly by my children, who tell me Santa has come.
Yeesh.
As it turns out, though, we managed to hit some sort of lovely sweet spot with the presents. There were enough that everyone got the main things they really wanted plus some surprises, but not enough that they couldn't play with it all or were overwhelmed. It was quite cool. Will got his skateboard and Alisdair his skates, and by the end of the day Alisdair was really skating on his own. :) Will was pretty good at balancing, but could not yet push off and stand on the board as it moves. My husband got pretty good at it, though. :) Today will feature more efforts at perfecting these new skills. I have to say that I'm rather proud of my boys... I was never that together physically as a kid, and I never got very good at skating. Of course, I also never had anyone helping me until I got the hang of it, so that makes a difference.
Aside from that, though, the boys were really happy and played well together all day long. The Hot Wheels racetrack was a great success, as were the shirts their aunt got for them. They loved the armies and Alisdair actually asked his dad to play Warhammer with him (a request that brought a huge grin to his daddy's face). Will came over and rolled dice for David occasionally, so that he felt like he was winning too, and in the end, when the lizards lost (Will's army), he carefully cleared the board of skeletons, putting them away on the table, then put some of his lizards back and went around singing, "the lizards won, the lizards won!" It was quite cute.
We read from their new books at bed time, and they played with their action figures on and off most of the day (Alisdair got a ghost w/respective alien and Master Chief figures from Halo, and Will got a little kid's version of the Naboo fighter w/Anakin, Obi Wan, Darth Maul, and a battle droid). All was good.
My own list was pretty damn slim, as we decided (or rather, my parents decided and I gave in) that we should only give presents to the kids this year. David did get me the new Sarah MacLachlan CD (squee!!!) and Syberia, a really neat game for the X-Box that nobody but me will ever care about in the house, but I don't care. I still love it. :) A friend also sent me Savage Worlds and 50 Fathoms, so as to better initiate me into Pinnacle's gaming goodness. I'm excited, as I have heard much raving but have not bought anything I didn't write for in roughly a year. It's ultra cool. :)
David's present is evidently going to be overnighted to me today, as I finally got through to the company I'd ordered from.
Oh, and in the category of Xmas miracles, the company who owes me scads of money was indeed able to scrape up a little more than $250 for me! Yay! Of course, the $500 that I really needed still isn't here, despite ostensibly being mailed the week prior to Christmas. I know it's the holiday season, but this whole payment thing with this company is a long-standing issue. I'm supposed to be doing a lot of regular work with them, but this is an issue I am going to have to straight out if I want that to work.
I'll post soon with some year-in-review stuff and the like.
My Christmas Eve went something like this:
11 to 3:30 -- painting 1 unit of skeleton warriors. Dear God.
3:30 to 4 -- finishing up stupid piddly stuff while David moved on to basing and spraying them. Consuming copious amounts of caffiene to keep me up through the next part.
4 to 6:30 -- wrapping presents for the kiddos. Worrying about how bare it still looked under the tree.
6:30 to 7:00 -- being paranoid that the kids will be up any second, cleaning up scraps, putting away paint stuff, blowing on the last minis to make sure they're dry, forgetting then remembering stockings and the stuff to go in them, taking a bath, and generally falling over.
8:00 AM -- being woken up excitedly by my children, who tell me Santa has come.
Yeesh.
As it turns out, though, we managed to hit some sort of lovely sweet spot with the presents. There were enough that everyone got the main things they really wanted plus some surprises, but not enough that they couldn't play with it all or were overwhelmed. It was quite cool. Will got his skateboard and Alisdair his skates, and by the end of the day Alisdair was really skating on his own. :) Will was pretty good at balancing, but could not yet push off and stand on the board as it moves. My husband got pretty good at it, though. :) Today will feature more efforts at perfecting these new skills. I have to say that I'm rather proud of my boys... I was never that together physically as a kid, and I never got very good at skating. Of course, I also never had anyone helping me until I got the hang of it, so that makes a difference.
Aside from that, though, the boys were really happy and played well together all day long. The Hot Wheels racetrack was a great success, as were the shirts their aunt got for them. They loved the armies and Alisdair actually asked his dad to play Warhammer with him (a request that brought a huge grin to his daddy's face). Will came over and rolled dice for David occasionally, so that he felt like he was winning too, and in the end, when the lizards lost (Will's army), he carefully cleared the board of skeletons, putting them away on the table, then put some of his lizards back and went around singing, "the lizards won, the lizards won!" It was quite cute.
We read from their new books at bed time, and they played with their action figures on and off most of the day (Alisdair got a ghost w/respective alien and Master Chief figures from Halo, and Will got a little kid's version of the Naboo fighter w/Anakin, Obi Wan, Darth Maul, and a battle droid). All was good.
My own list was pretty damn slim, as we decided (or rather, my parents decided and I gave in) that we should only give presents to the kids this year. David did get me the new Sarah MacLachlan CD (squee!!!) and Syberia, a really neat game for the X-Box that nobody but me will ever care about in the house, but I don't care. I still love it. :) A friend also sent me Savage Worlds and 50 Fathoms, so as to better initiate me into Pinnacle's gaming goodness. I'm excited, as I have heard much raving but have not bought anything I didn't write for in roughly a year. It's ultra cool. :)
David's present is evidently going to be overnighted to me today, as I finally got through to the company I'd ordered from.
Oh, and in the category of Xmas miracles, the company who owes me scads of money was indeed able to scrape up a little more than $250 for me! Yay! Of course, the $500 that I really needed still isn't here, despite ostensibly being mailed the week prior to Christmas. I know it's the holiday season, but this whole payment thing with this company is a long-standing issue. I'm supposed to be doing a lot of regular work with them, but this is an issue I am going to have to straight out if I want that to work.
I'll post soon with some year-in-review stuff and the like.
