Sharkboy

This year, my Christmas is different than any other ones past. We wanted to spend time with Da before he leaves us for South America for the Winter, especially after all the hard times he went through this past Spring and Summer, I felt it was important to have a great Christmas time with him. So we rescheduled everything and drove to Quebec to visit my family last week and this week is all about being here for him.

We started the celebration by going to the MCC Midnight Mass celebration at Roy Thompson Hall with him:

Here we are, dressed in our finest, on our way to meet him. Do not be jealous of the scarf, get your own. (My sister will knit you one too if you ask nicely)

And here we are at the Hall

It was a great service and I found myself singing along with all the carols. MCC does put up a great show and again, I found myself closed to tears at moment. There are moments in time when you miss the departed more than others.

After a majorly cold walk to the subway and the ride home, we plugged in the lights on the tree and decided to give each other our gifts instead of waiting until Christmas morning. YEH.

Here is the tree with the wrapped loot

DR surprised me with a stocking, I had no idea so I had nothing waiting for him… how sad:

Now… let’s go back in time to 2 months ago. DR and I were making our halloween costumes and swearing out loud because we were both very poor at sewing. How nice would it be to have a sewing machine and how much nicer would it be to know how to use it. So one day, while shopping, we saw this Shark brand sewing machine on special, it looked really fun with the Shark logo on it and it boasted that it could sew through 4 layers of jeans… perfect for halloween costume… We put the idea in the back of our heads.

A few weeks later, still shopping, we went into a store that was advertising sewing lessons. The prices were very reasonable and they had lessons all through the Winter months. Perfect. Let’s sign up.

Now, back to the week before Christmas. DR comes home with a big box and goes hide it… then after closer inspection, he swears out loud and calls me in the bedroom. There’s a big box with a sewing machine in it… It’s going to be my Christmas gift… but although he took great care to choose a box that wasn’t damaged, he ended up choosing the wrong sewing machine, he didn’t get the Shark one after all as the different brands were mixed in the “sewing section”. He will go and exchange it… but the more we look at it, the more we notice the selling features are exactly what we need and want for Halloween, including sewing through very thick material. So we decide to keep it. DR wraps it and puts it under the tree.

As I’m looking at the size of the box, I realize it is the exact same size of the gift he has been asking for… I get a splendidly fab idea…

Without him knowing, I wrapped his gift with the exact same paper, I took the sewing machine, hid it and replaced it with the new surprise gift… Now I had to find a way to make him open it. So I came up with this lame plan that I wanted to act “fake” surprise when opening my gift and he should film it for me to post on my blog, and then I kept saying that with his “improvisational and acting skills” he would do a much better job at being faked-surprised and he should open it while I filmed, but he didn’t buy it… So I had no choice, I’d have to open his gift while he filmed… and here’s what happened:

I totally got him… I got him good. Although he kept asking for one, I kept saying that we’d be crazy to buy one before Boxing Day, there would be some on special somewhere… ahah sucker.

Here’s the opened loot:
PS3
Disney Dossier Book
Wall E Blu-Ray 3 discs edition
Sewing Machine (not Shark… )
Bear throw cover
Wii Fit (Yesssssssssssssss)
Rodgers/Hammerstein musical collection
The Car (Cat pooh)

And here’s GeorgeHamilton, bored, nothing for him…

Now, let’s prepare for Christmas dinner, DR and I are in charge of the dessert, it will be a really fun surprise… stay tuned for pictures tomorrow.

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