So today is Christmas Eve and I took the day off officially, even though I still spent time with emails and work stuff. I'm supposed to hand off Johnnie by lunchtime today apparently because Lisa made plans to go biking with Balwan. Still plenty of time for Johnnie and I to do Thursday morning normal, which is to say shower, McDonald's breakfast, and then Johnnie still wanted to do more drawing presents for his mom. Especially after I told him it was going to be a short day with me today. I got as far as making him mac-and-cheese for lunch and I promised Lisa he'd eat it at her house. And she even invited me to stay for lunch. That's because one look out the window and it was drizzling a little outside, which basically takes out Lisa's plans to go biking. Not that it mattered to me, since all I had to do was drop Johnnie off and that would be that for the day. Still I ended up hanging around and helped Lisa make lunch. Our lunch. We ended up having some nice steak stir fry.
And so I did hang out with mom and son for Christmas Eve and it wasn't just lunch either. Lisa was talking about how she needed to purchase another tea kettle since she burned out her existing one. And quite spontaneously, I suggested we go get out. Right then. Right after lunch. And so again quite spontaneously we found ourselves at ACE Hardware since Lisa saw an ad there. Never mind that I had deja vu feelings here. This used to be the OSH hardware I frequented. Who can forget when we bought plexiglass here for the Lindbrook apartment in preparation for a Johnnie?!! And here we are looking for a teapot. Funny thing was that I found one... for me. A single serving tea pot with a filter for loose-leaf type tea. Lisa happily purchased it for me for my Christmas present. And when we went to Bed Bath and Beyond, I purchased HER teapot for her. Funny... an impromptu gift exchange right then and there. And then since mom and son wanted to take out his new Razor scooter he just got for Christmas, they went off to Stoner Park. And I did shopping at Trader Joe's so I could be sure I had food for tomorrow since stores might be closed on Christmas Day. I not only got grocery shopping done, I also walked back to her car, which got me all the steps I needed and then some. And then some came when I picked up Lisa and Johnnie and they wanted to go around the block some more. And so me did make an M&M with Johnnie riding his brand new scooter in an empty tennis court at Stoner Park. Who knew this would turn out to be a pleasant Christmas Eve with Lisa and Johnnie. And we got to go shopping to boot. Lisa's fave activities.
Mom and son actually got pre-occupied with one of his presents that he opened early, which was the dinosaur egg creator kit. They had to get duded up for that one since it involved fine sand. That's when I left to go home. I was coming back for Christmas breakfast tomorrow morning anyway. And so Christmas Eve dinner was leftover ground pork and bok choy from last night. Not exactly the sumptous meal I'd be having if I spent tonight with people. But I'll take it. It was merely a wind down from a pretty good day I had had already. I reminded myself that being by myself at any time is a choice. And the choice had always been mine. It was funny to hear Joah call Lisa to tell her when to come tomorrow. Even funnier that I didn't say anything the whole time until we all thought everyone had hung up and Joah stayed on the line to ask Lisa who the guy in the house was... "uh, just Johnnie's dad". I blurted out. I was with my family after all.
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