Gee, but it's great to be back home. . .
Sep. 25th, 2006 07:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xiphiasBack from Florida, where we visited Lis's family for Rosh Hashanah.
As most of y'all know, I hate Florida, but love my in-laws. So, I put up with Florida for their sakes, and it's worth it. They're good folks.
This time, Lis's aunt and uncle and cousins were in town from Milwaukee and Phoenix, and we were up from Boston, along with her parents, brother, sister-in-law, nephew, and grandparents, who live there, so it was a real gathering of the clan -- although, for Lis's family, a "gathering of the clan" is a lot smaller than it is for us. There aren't many more than a dozen Ribas in her family -- "Riba" isn't that uncommon a name, actually, but all but a dozen of them are unrelated to our Ribas. So, if you encounter a Riba, and wonder if it's a relative -- it probably isn't.
That said, what the Ribas lack in quantity, they make up for in quality and general insanity-of-the-good-sort.
Our nephew continues to gain adorableness by the day. He's two-and-a-half, and is unusually articulate for that age, which, I suspect, is one of the factors in him being far, far less two-year-old-like than most two-year-olds. I mean, he throws tantrums and stuff, of course -- he's two -- but of much shorter duration and intensity, and of lower frequency than I'm used to. I suspect that the fact that he can actually communicate what he wants helps that.
Also, the fact that both his parents are really good and skilled parents helps. And I think they just also got some good luck-of-the-draw on behavior.
So, yeah. Good services both days, extremely good holiday meals by Lis's mother and her grandmother, good company, good time.
As most of y'all know, I hate Florida, but love my in-laws. So, I put up with Florida for their sakes, and it's worth it. They're good folks.
This time, Lis's aunt and uncle and cousins were in town from Milwaukee and Phoenix, and we were up from Boston, along with her parents, brother, sister-in-law, nephew, and grandparents, who live there, so it was a real gathering of the clan -- although, for Lis's family, a "gathering of the clan" is a lot smaller than it is for us. There aren't many more than a dozen Ribas in her family -- "Riba" isn't that uncommon a name, actually, but all but a dozen of them are unrelated to our Ribas. So, if you encounter a Riba, and wonder if it's a relative -- it probably isn't.
That said, what the Ribas lack in quantity, they make up for in quality and general insanity-of-the-good-sort.
Our nephew continues to gain adorableness by the day. He's two-and-a-half, and is unusually articulate for that age, which, I suspect, is one of the factors in him being far, far less two-year-old-like than most two-year-olds. I mean, he throws tantrums and stuff, of course -- he's two -- but of much shorter duration and intensity, and of lower frequency than I'm used to. I suspect that the fact that he can actually communicate what he wants helps that.
Also, the fact that both his parents are really good and skilled parents helps. And I think they just also got some good luck-of-the-draw on behavior.
So, yeah. Good services both days, extremely good holiday meals by Lis's mother and her grandmother, good company, good time.