'Twas a good Christmas Eve/Christmas at our house this year - even though the snow (which provided us with a beautiful white Christmas) put a damper on our Shad's side of the family get-together. For the last week or so I've been in a cleaning/planning frenzy to get ready to host Shad's parents, his sister and her family and other various relatives for a Christmas Eve gathering scheduled for 4:00 p.m. At about 10:30 a.m. it started snowing in earnest. Charlie liked it -
Otis, not so much -
Clyde was being such a baby about the snow that I couldn't even get a picture of him out in it - as soon as I stepped onto the back porch he wound himself around my legs and refused to go out and play. What a wuss!
At about 2:00 p.m. or so people started calling off. I guess it's one of the drawbacks of being the ones who moved away (and into the country, to boot!) from the family group, but we managed to survive. Shad and the kids and I ate some of the "party" food and packed up some more to drop off with the relatives when we took the kids to their mom's house for Christmas. We got to see Shad's mom, his dad and his sister so it's kinda like we took the party on the road!
Shad's mom had also prepared for the festivities by purchasing some Panera Bread bread, bagels and cream cheese which she generously shared with us. May I just say that the cinnamon crunch bagels plus hazelnut spread equals tasty goodness? For the math nerds out there, the symbolic interpretation of the preceding equation would be Cinnamon Crunch bagels + Hazelnut spread = :). <3 would also be accepted.
More on Christmas (I made out like a bandit, totally befitting my "Good List" status this year!) and "One A Day" pictures will trickle in throughout the day.
See ya!
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