Now that was fun . . .

Picked up Kiddo at 1pm yesterday and after we got to Moosup and he had shown Grampa a new Wii game he and I went out to play soccer. Pretty exhilarating and tiring in the cold and almost dark! But the best was after supper when he asked if we could set up the Lionel train. We dug out all of the tracks, cars, diner, traffic gate and siding plus the rail cars and set it up before we asked Grampa to wire it all together. What a good time he had. He had played with the train when he was younger and it was okay but now he really likes to go racing around the tracks. He and Grampa even have the smoke working again! And naturally the whistle must work every time you come to a crossing or Irene's Diner! He played for at least three hours last evening and went back upstairs after breakfast this morning to play again before we left for Groton. I'm glad he finally really likes it because it is so much fun to watch him run everything. He even wears his engineer hat.

Got the house in some semblance of order as we prepare for tomorrow's Christmas Dinner. I'm pretty tired today but I'll be off to the children's Christmas Mass soon.

Quote: Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. ___H. W. Beecher