The Roller Coaster Christmas
Yea, you read that right, the Roller Coaster Christmas! We arrived at my Grammy’s late - they had already started eating. We were there exactly an hour and ten minutes. That involved eating, cleaning up the mess, watching Grammy open her gifts and getting in the car to leave. Period. One hour and ten minutes.
Fast forward to the fact that we sat around home chatting (me and the husband) until we realized that we hadn’t done Santa yet and it was…er…midnight. We knew the kids would be up early so we got busy. We assembled and wrapped Santa gifts, wrapped one another’s gifts and then opened our personal gifts to one another. That still left a couple of gifts under the tree that belong to other people.
Fast forward to about 3:30 AM and our door flung open and two little boys were gleefully playing with all the unwrapped gifts that Santa had left. Even the gifts that didn’t belong to them had been opened. Lovely, eh?
We put them back in bed and went back to bed ourselves. I woke up at 8:30 and Wayne was in Walker’s bed and both boys were in the family room having a blast playing. To satisfy the photographer in me, we made them sit down and Wayne handed them each gift, one at a time and I took a picture. Whooopie!
Then it was time to start cooking. We were having one guest for lunch. I went in search of the ham we had purchased a week earlier. It was no where to be found. Wayne reminded me that we didn’t make it home with our milk that trip to the store either so….it was likely that’s where our ham was.
So, what would we have for Christmas dinner? Fried wieners? Wayne went in search of a canned ham. Nope, most convenience stores don’t carry those. As a last resort, I called a cousin that I know always brings my mom a ton of food after Christmas….yes, she did indeed have enough for 3 extra adults. And, so Wayne went to get it.
Our guest arrived, we ate, we laid lazy and we went to bed.
EMOTIONALLY DRAINING….EMOTIONALLY A ROLLER COASTER RIDE FROM ….yea, from HELL!
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