Before getting to my exciting trip to Ireland, I need to give a little O'Hara Christmas update. On Dec. 24th I picked my sister and her family (husband and two kids) up from the Syracuse airport. When they got off the airport, I could immediately tell that their flight wasn't ideal... to say the least. It turns out that their oldest daughter, Maisy, got sick on both flights coming to Syracuse. The story of her getting sick is pretty funny, but I said I was going to keep this blog kid-friendly, so I'll only tell you that this was the first ominous sign of things to come. Coincidentally, Maisy asked for the first book in the Series of Unfortunate Events as her Christmas from me this year. Oh how ironic this turned out to be as
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