December 2003
Friends-
Holiday Greetings from Elmira, New York, home of the Mark Twain Country Club, Mark Twain Inn, Mark Twain Museum and Mark Twain grave site. It's also the home of Kate Holland Hanson. Kate, born on March 11th, is happy, healthy, bright and has the largest wardrobe ever amassed by an infant. Kate now has more clothes than Eric has had in his entire life. She also has a head of comic proportions. And we mean that in the nicest way possible.
For this year I can simply cut and paste an entire paragraph from last year's letter:
Home ownership continues to take a toll on us. Our parking lot has a large pile of sand and a large pile of gravel - remnants of a stone walkway project started in May. The adventure was put on hold when our stone-walkway-builder took off for Hollywood. Roughly 30 feet of the 160 proposed feet of walkways have been completed. Trenches criss-cross our back yard making night-time volleyball dangerous and croquet impossible. Also, the stone barbeque in the back yard is half demolished as part of what also promises to be a long-term . . . something. The proper word eludes us at the moment. We had hoped to report that Eric's office remodeling project had been completed, 2 years and 8 months after it was started, but it is still not quite there. It is close enough to completion that Eric has been relocated back up to the attic, doubling the distance of his morning commute (not to mention his distance from the kitchen). The contractors will have to work around him the rest of the way. Next on Eric's list is converting the entire basement into a rec room. A bar, pool table, race track, foosball, pinball, home theatre - the works. Ellen's list may vary slightly. For those of you scoring at home you may have noticed that these two sentences also appeared in last year's Holiday note. Eric’s list is not the one we are working off of.
Aside from Kate we didn't actually accomplish much on the home front this year.
Finally, for those of you trying to keep up with Connor's exploits it's best to visit the website (www.logicaloperator.com/hanson/ - the www.newyorklogic.com/hanson/ site should be back up eventually) frequently. As an added attraction, Eric is working on a page for the website listing all of the great reasons to come to New York's Southern Tier and, perhaps, stop by our place. In his second year Connor has now learned his colors (at least the ten he needs if he does not pursue a career as an interior designer), added a couple of trips to Philadelphia and one to Nantucket to his growing list of adventures, figured out the counting thing up to six ("None, two, tree, four, five, six, many." Seven seems a ways off now, but I'm sure it will be here before we know it), memorized a few books, awarded Ellen three separate nicknames and been photographed an additional 1017 times by Ellen. He still doesn't have a girlfriend, has demonstrated some odd compulsive behavior and has shown no desire to get a job and move out of the house. We may be stuck with him forever.
Wishing you a happy holiday season and an interesting year,
Eric, Ellen, Connor & Kate
1 comment:
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