This collection of entries is from December 24, 2005.
For the first time, we've had a little shake-up in our family traditions at Christmas Eve. Tonight, it's a very small dinner - just Gil & Cathy, my Mom, and Carol and I. that's it. No Dane, no extended family.
The weather is weird - it feels like its in the 40's. Dinner is late because Gil has to work at WGN until 6, so I drove into the city to bring mom out to our house. The traffic stinks on the Northwest Tollway at the toll booths because of the construction t redo the area for "Open Tolling".
Dinner was great - Carol got a really nice beef tenderloin from a butcher this morning that she found in Northbrook. Sounds like she was really satisfied with the place, so she will probably go back.
I drove mom back into town at the end of the evening and had a little bit of a panic, trying to find an open gas station on the way home. The Des Plaines Oasis - after I fought my way trough the traffic at the toll both - was may savior.
Really dense, patchy fog tonight - probably from all of the melting snow.