"Christmas"

Dear Diary,

IT'S CHRISTMAS!

I love christmas.. and I love presents, well.. duh, who doesn't like presents?

I got my very first big-girl Bicycle, with NO TRAINING WHEELS! I can't ride it yet, cuzza all the snow, and cuz I don't know HOW YET.. But Mommy says when the snow thaws, and after the new baby is born, she'll help me learn how to ride it. I'm so excited, and it's so pretty.. I hate waiting tho!

But that's okay, cuzza I got another really awesome present! Cory, Mommy's new boyfriend, gave me a brand new kitten! Well.. they SAID it was from him.. but the way Mommy smiled.. I think she might have had something to do with it.

ANYWAYS! I had to think of a name for him.. and the other day, Mommy was craving weird food combinations cuz of the baby, and she got pickles and Icecream.. and then she looked at it, and decided she didn't want it after all. Well, she wanted the ice cream, and gave me the pickles. And I do love pickles.

So when I had to think of a name for the kitten.. I decided that "Mister Pickles" sounded like a good name.

There was a frustrating part tho, an' it's kinda hard to write about. I'm lonely. Well, less lonely now that Mr. Pickles is here.. but, the house is so empty. my cousin that I've hardly even met is gone.. last time I saw him he said something about us going and playing in the snow, then the adults decided different, and he got bundled back into the car and was gone again. Aunti Raewi, and Jo, and even Aunti Lucy are all gone..

I didn't even get to see Cory when I got Mr. Pickles.

Our 'inworld' Christmas consisted of some offline messages and marketplace purchases. Not really the "Family Christmas" I might have hoped for.

It doesn't help that SL is a secondary social experience to most of the family, but I personally had no one to see, and no place to be in real life for Christmas eve and Christmas morning. Also doesn't quite help that we're spread around the globe, with some of us celebrating Christmas day, while others are on the day after.

Presents for Jo and Calton lay waiting under the tree, if they ever show up.

 I did get to spend some time with Mommy, which is really all I wanted for Christmas. And I got to give her her present too.

I got Mommy a scarf, cuz she's always super cold in the snow, one she can wear over her hair when it starts snowing. It's brown, and has a neat pattern in the fabric.

I also made her a card that took HOURS of cutting and gluing and coloring.

Mommy loved them both, but she got real quiet and hugged me real close when she saw the card. I hope she doesn't mind that I left out the glitter. The glue was taking so long to dry just putting the construction paper together, I didn't think it would be dry in time if I tried to use lines of glue to hold glitter.

Next time, I'll start sooner!