Great Times Were Had By All – Almost

Well the Christmas holiday is gone, now we are just counting down the days until the New Year arrives.

We’ve had a good holiday so far; Christmas Eve and Christmas Day were full of friends and family, and made the season very enjoyable.

Christmas Eve we had a small group at the house for Prime Rib dinner. We had a good time and everyone enjoyed the food and the visiting. The snow was still falling and the roads were still pretty nasty; so two of our friends were not able to make it out of their complex to come to the dinner. They missed some really good food and some nice chatting.

Christmas Day was really special; for the first time in years almost everyone one of our kids and grandkids made it for Christmas Day breakfast. The only ones who were not here was Diana and her family from California, and grandson Sean and his girlfriend who couldn’t make it to our place on the roads. Even our two sons, who haven’t been able to make a Christmas for several years where able to be at the house, for breakfast, gifts and visiting.

My granddaughter, Danielle, and I spent a lot of time talking about the Twilight series of books (see my 12/8/08 entry) and how much we both enjoyed them. That was much to the disgust of most everyone else at the breakfast since none of them could understand the attraction of the books. She was ecstatic because Delores and I gave her the set of Twilight books. Even though she’d read them, she didn’t have her own copies. Turns out Danielle is a budding artist. One of the gifts she gave me for Christmas was her own drawings of the cast from the movie Twilight.

By now you know all about our snow. It started almost two weeks ago, and kept right up until last night at our house. It’s been years since we’ve had so much snow on the ground at our house at one time. I would guess that over the two weeks we probably ended up with 12-14 inches at home. The coldest I saw was 8° F at our house one morning as I was waiting for the truck to warm up so I could drive to work. I’m all done with snow for the winter. It can stop right now and not come back. Snow is sure pretty, but only if it isn’t stuck to the roads (Grin).