Awake: 9:00 am Temp downtown 2 Clear 5 hrs 30 min daylight
The Foote family arrive @ 9:20. Everyone up by 10:00 am.
Kathy makes a 10:50 breakfast of: Ham, egg and cheese casserole & toast.
Then the stockings hung by the fireplace with care are emptied by our
grown children, son-in-law Kevin, Eriko & Matthew. Next the Christmas
packages are passed around to each of us by Katrina & Zack. Before
opening, we compare each other's stack of presents...trying to calculate
who was naughty or nice throughout the year & it became obvious that MOM &
DAD were the winners of the nice guys hands down. The actual unwrapping
begins @ 11:30 am...finishes @ 1:30 pm. A nice & easy pace with some very
practical gifts. Melissa & Kevin win recognition for being the most
innovative with Nick's gift of a Snoopy Dog shower curtain. Katrina gets
honorable mention of talent with knitting a hat for Matthew during her
time in Italy. This was Eriko's first experience of celebrating Christmas
in America...and we think she liked it a lot.
Mid afternoon, most of us play a DVD game "Scene it" on the TV. It is a
good game but tough for one who doesn't watch a lot of movies.
Kathy spends hrs in her kitchen preparing a BIG dinner: 5:15 pm, 8 of us +
little Matthew enjoy eating: turkey dinner with sausage-cherry-wild rice
stuffing, corn, broccoli, mashed & sweet potatoes, gravy, cranberries, and
jello.
Eriko & Nick clean up the dirty dishes.
Footes leave @ 6:30. Matthew has a great day up here with us and we enjoy
our day with him also.
Zack takes a 2 hr nap. Nick & Eriko play a game of wooden solitaire: Eriko
obtains the status of genius, Nick reaches less than genius.
Late evening we all watch 4 episodes of "Seinfeld" using Nick's DVD
Christmas present.
Katrina leaves @ 11:30 returning to her apt. We get a call from her while
she's at a Chevron gas station telling us about how her steering kept
taking her to the right side of the road. Fortunately she found a service
station with air open at that time of night...stopped & had more air added
to her tire. I really didn't want to be changing a tire @ midnight in
close to zero degree temperatures. She said it was pretty flat.
It was a super nice Christmas. Lights out: 12:07 am
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