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My mom knows how to party.<\/em><\/p>\n We had a great time at family Christmas in Eagan last night. There were approximately two million presents under the tree. We got my parents a digital picture frame (pre-loaded with old photos), a bath set including washcloths that I knit, and the Garmin software to upgrade my dad’s GPS. Stephanie got a Kiva.org<\/a> gift certificate, a Gophers tshirt, and a scarf<\/a>. We got Escobar cookbooks and a beer sampler, as he’s the resident gourmet.<\/p>\n I got a poker tabletop, Scrabble (the kind with the rotating board), a Gophers hoodie, WiiPlay (which we have already and will exchange), a couple of these awesome photo holders<\/a>, and a gift certificate to go use the flight simulator with my dad, since we’ve flown a plane together before. SO AWESOME. And I’m pretty sure I’m forgetting something. My parents got Matt a bottle of Macallan 12, and the meat grinder attachment for our KitchenAid mixer. He’s promised to invent me some kind of fancy veggie burger with it, too.<\/p>\n My sister got me three pairs of Smartwool socks (holy crap, I love them), and a tent repair kit. She got Matt a Gophers flag to accompany the State of Hockey flag in our basement<\/span> party room. Escobar got me a gift card for Robot Love<\/a>, and Matt an ice bucket that matches the stuff on our bar. Scott, Ali, and kids made us a lamp containing shells they picked up on Sanibel Island. So cute.<\/p>\n After the present-opening, we hung out and my dad told stories about the time he almost shot a guy in Janesville, Wisconsin, during a drug bust. I realized, though, that my dad’s been retired from the DEA long enough that he no longer tells those stories in Chicago-cop voice. I really want Matt to hear him talking in the same exact accent as Dan Aykroyd in the Blues Brothers. It’s impressive.<\/p>\n Oh, and in addition to the ants on a log, there were mini corn dogs made with vegetarian little smokies. They weren’t exactly good, but they were strangely appealing. I’m hoping to never encounter them again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My mom knows how to party. We had a great time at family Christmas in Eagan last night. There were approximately two million presents under the tree. We got my parents a digital picture frame (pre-loaded with old photos), a bath set including washcloths that I knit, and the Garmin software to upgrade my dad’s …read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9qt-ix","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}