Christmas with Lucas
Okay, my first New Year’s resolution is to write more often (at least 2 times a week!)
We had a marvelous Christmas, with Lucas’ brother Robert home to visit. Robert actually came home the Thursday before Christmas and had to leave 2 days later, Saturday. So Santa came the night of Thursday, Dec. 20th!
Lucas had asked Santa for a model of the train from Back to the Future III, which of course, no one makes. BUT…someone had designed one that could be cut out and assembled from paper, and had posted both the pieces and the instructions online.
We thought it might be a nice project for Lucas, his dad and I during Christmas vacation, so I printed out the 367 train pieces on card stock, and Lucas received them with the 101 steps of instructions, along with a note from Santa explaining that Santa thought we should assemble it together.
Does Murphy’s Law reign supreme ALWAYS??
Lucas’ fine motor skills made it impossible for him to cut out many of the train pieces, and Alan’s eyesight (now that he’s OLD) made it impossible for him to cut out ANY of the pieces.
So for 9 long days, I spent between 4 and 7 hours a day cutting and taping a train together for Lucas. (This, in spite of all the end-of-year business stuff I needed to do, and the reading I had planned to catch up on!)
In spite of all the tape you see in these photos, the train didn’t turn out half bad. Lucas loves it, and it fits on his tracks, behind one of his many DeLorean models.
Another interesting and unusual Christmas, thanks to Lucas!