Quiet Weekend

No travel, no company.  We're going out to dinner with some friends tonight and tomorrow we celebrate our Christmas.  The timing is fairly typical, the first weekend following the Feast of the Three Kings.  Then we get ready for Kathleen, Will and a sleepover with Patti, Meaghan and the babies before heading back to NY to celebrate Mom's birthday next Saturday.  A couple of weeks ago I ran across this picture of Dad.  Not his most flattering pose perhaps, but it captures something essential about him.