Christmas 2007

The First Annual M Final Exam
Pencils ready? Here we go!

1. Dear
1. Family
2. Friend(s)

2. We hope that this letter finds you
1. healthy
2. happy
3. eagerly awaiting the next installment of the M family news
   

3. C and R are still
1. married
2. speaking
3. breathing
   

4. N
1. always has enough energy to get us through the next energy crisis. Eat your heart out Global Warming!
2. thinks he’s Jackson Pollock. Don’t believe us? Look at his paintings.
3. continues to plot world domination with his imaginary friend, the other N, and an army of stuffed animals
   

5. Like a typical preschooler, he
1. knows the code, “What happens on the playground stays on the playground” a.k.a “The wind did it”
2. is the poster child for the “Why?” Revolution
3. is threatening to run off and join the circus with his “Penguins on Monster Trucks” show
   

6. C
1. is no longer afraid of anything since becoming a preschool volunteer
2. continues his “Adventures in Fermentation” by brewing over 75% of the beer we drink and conspiring with his father-in-law to steal yeast from Belgian monks
   

7. He also
1. ran…..a lot; enough to run to British Columbia and back…three times
2. qualified for the 2008 Boston Marathon and will be embarking on that little run from Hopkinton, MA next April
3. is crazy
   

8. R
1. still lives part-time in a gray box at I
2. found her needles and is not afraid to use them. Sometimes knit really does happen around here
   

9. She also
1. biked more miles in six months than she drove in the same time period but never biked to or from work
2. qualified for the 2008 Escape from Alcatraz triathlon and will be voluntarily walking off a boat into the San Francisco bay next June
3. is crazy

10. On vacation,
1. R narrowly avoided packs of hungry, trail mix snatching chipmunks before plunging into the icy depths of Crater Lake
2. N landed a role as the “cute crowd kid” on ESPN when we were in St. Louis for the NCAA Frozen Four
3. C and R ran to Canada and back, underwater with no passports, and did not invite the ire of Homeland Security officials
   

11. You can spy on keep in touch with us by
1. snail mail
2. calling
3. using a “series of tubes” to visit our blog at http://hobey.blogspot.com

12. In closing, we’d like to wish all of you a
1. Merry Christmas
2. Happy Hanukkah
3. Joyful Festivus

Love,

Christmas 2007

Everything is true, except that bit about N joining the circus. As he hasn’t hit puberty yet, we’d like to keep that option open.