21st Century Finally Arrives...

I knew it was coming. It had to.

We've got a DVD player.

Christmas day was wonderful. Ursa Minor woke us up and we went downstairs and enjoyed the bounty that we (and Santa) were blessed to bestow upon him. It was a wonderful morning. And then Mouse and I finished prepping for having the families over.

Mouse is so very wonderful. Every year she quietly leaves the festivities at one point for a few moments and goes out into darkened evening and wanders to the front of the house. Her soul purpose for this is to look back into the front windows at the gathering of her happy family.

She's really an angel.

It took some doing, and I'm not sure it's going to work, but my brother and my father finagled the DVD player into some modicum of submission with our tv. The picture is sketchy, but hopefully we'll be able to resolve the resolution with only a modicum of expense.

And, as a post script, Mouse's brother gave her a wonderful mix CDs compilation. We sat and rocked on the glider/couch and listened to it after the guests had gone and Ursa Minor had gone to sleep.