Christmas celebrating this year is over and while we are still basking in the lights, it's considerably quieter around here. Yesterday PH said it felt strange not running around getting things ready for the kids and grands (we still call our 50 year old children "the kids.") The grands ran around in the woods outdoors, we shared gifts, we had food enough to eat and leftovers to send home, we played card games at night, the grands roasted marshmallows in the fireplace after the adults went to bed.
I don't even know how many kinds of cookies I made but I kept just one kind and sent the rest home with everyone. Floor vacuumed, naps taken, it's quiet again. They are all prepping for their own Christmas and with their in-laws. It always feel like a real silent night after they've gone home but we've worked it out so we have them for the weekend before actual Christmas and that frees them up. We have them overnight and the kids look forward to that. As Charlie said, "it's how it's supposed to be, it's all part of Christmas."
PH and I have done various things on the actual day, in the past sometimes with friends, but the usual is to go to a movie and out for Chinese - the only two things open on Christmas Day.
I love surprises. Some people don't but I do. Surprises say someone was thinking about you and you didn't even know it. Yesterday this surprise from Jo came in the mail! I was shocked and honored she was thinking of me and made a card, filled it with this so cute ornament and sent it to me. Thank you, Jo. It's hanging on my 'special' tree.
So, as PH and I watch a movie and eat Chinese and bask in our memories of this year, we both hope you have a nice Christmas and holiday whether surrounded or quietly together.
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