We had a most enjoyable weekend even though the weather was bitter cold and wind-blown.
We spent the entire weekend indoors but, unfortunately, my sister and her family had to go in and out. On the brighter side, everyone seemed to survive and have a good time.
We start our "Christmas Day" with breakfast, prayer and a traditional reading of Luke 2. We then open gifts and clean up a bit. The goodies are then laid out and the munching begins. We will have soup or pizza for supper but goodies rule the day. One thing we like to do at my folks house is to watch Christmas movies all afternoon. We watched 'White Christmas' and 'Elf' this past weekend. In the evening we generally will play games of some sort.
Later "Christmas Night" a few of us, my mother and me for sure, cap the night off by watching 'A Christmas Carol'. We particularly like the 1951 version staring Alistair Sim. I like several other versions but this one, for some reason, is my favorite.
Due to the weather, we had to follow the road reports to see if we were actually going to come home or not. As the day went on we decided to 'risk' it and made it home with no problems. It did not take us any longer than normal. There were moments where the snow blew pretty hard but no so as to create a complete white out.
Our next Christmas, the real Christmas (Dec. 25) will be nice too since we will just be at home and have no plans to venture out. Very relaxing. We'll head for Ames for Christmas III on Sunday.
Well, I'm signing off again. See you soon.
Bye!
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