Christmas celebrations this year were spread out over several weeks with luncheons with my Fire Company Auxiliary friends and a group of my High School friends. Decorations in the neighborhoods were either understated or “over the top.” Ours were pretty simple outside:
Even our inside decorations were understated:
When I’m asked if I decorate for the holidays, I usually mention that during the month of December I’m often sewing greyhound coats and other assorted Christmas gifts. I have the Hallmark Channel on while I sew. That means every two hours I have a chance to watch folks decorate a tree, sing Christmas carols and eat Christmas cookies. By the time Christmas rolls around, I’m decorated OUT!
Ted’s family didn’t travel east this year because he had a 3-week opportunity to fly to the Atacama Desert in Chile to help set up a telescope at the Simons Observatory. It’s at 17,000 feet, so everyone had to wear “oxygen concentrators” mandated by Chile’s equivalent of OSHA. Quite the adventure!
This year we drove to Kathy’s home on Christmas Eve day and enjoyed 24 hours with her family.
Anna was almost awake to notice her new bike!
My notebook of Favorite Recipes was a hit!
Kathy managed to capture “selfies” of us!
Of course, photobombed by Ben!
Perfect gifts for Grandma! New scissors and a gift card to JoAnn’s!
My usual request for a photo desk calendar came through!
An adorable tiny arrangement with wood flowers from Anna!
And of course, my Christmas card from Bert…plays the song from “A Charlie Brown Christmas!”…with cash inside…so it could be my favorite card!
I hope you had a wonderful time with family and friends!
Rest up for 2024! It’s predicted to be a wild ride!
It looks like you had a lovely holiday!
Now that the kids are 16 and 11 they are much easier to entertain so we had fun playing cards and games together. I hope you had a great holiday too!
What an adorable post! I sure miss everyone!
Much love,
Cindy