Mom and Gene came over for Christmas dinner in the afternoon. Mom bought us this insanely large standing rib roast – almost 11 1\/2 pounds! For those of you in the know, it appeared to include all seven ribs<\/a>. It took 4 1\/4 hours to cook. It was delish!! We had it with roasted vegetables and some tasty asparagus. Ha, but was Mom disappointed<\/a> when I served her after-dinner coffee in one of our new Browns<\/a> mugs! Mom got me two pairs of crocs, one black and one brown. Not really something I thought I’d want, but my feet are growing<\/a> and I’m thinking slip-ons are the way to go since I can’t see my feet and I’m starting to not be able to reach them. Dave got a 6-month membership to the Brew-of-the-Month club. I also got a cute Geek Inside shirt and the baby got a Geekling onesie. Mom got a massage gift certificate<\/a> and Gene got a book by Lou Dobbs<\/a>. Mom got Gene this fabulous back massager\/heat pad<\/a> that he can put in his recliner. All in all, we made out like bandits!!<\/p>\n A nice quiet Christmas morning for Dave and I. Our last quiet Christmas, I’m predicting. Dave got a book of genius Sudoku puzzles, a Bruce Springsteen CD, an indoor\/outdoor weather station, and some cute boxers. I got two Pink Martini CDs, a book of Sci-Fi-inspired baby names, and a fabulous new digital camera!!! I love […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,208,73,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-gifties","category-holidays","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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