We had a great Christmas. I attended Christmas Eve candlelight service at Central, and it was absolutely beautiful.
On Christmas morning, I took homemade cinnamon rolls over to Daryl & Gisele’s for breakfast and watched everyone open their gifts. Mom was really pleased with her Tivo, and Daryl will get it set up in the next couple of days for her. Robin and Ken arrived at noon, and we came to my house. Steven was sick and running a little fever so we decided not to go to Brian and Carrie’s that day. We opened gifts, had soup for dinner and rented a movie in the evening.
On the 26th, Steven was still sick and running a little fever, but we decided to go to B&C’s anyway, and just try to keep him separated from the rest of the kids. Lauren still is at risk when exposed to sicknesses. She has her immune system, but not her immunities. That means she takes longer to get over things, and it sets her back on her therapy progress. So they try to avoid illnesses as much as possible. It was hard to keep them all separated, but worth it. Brian and Carrie had bought a 16 pound prime rib and it just wouldn’t wait another day. We could all hear it calling!
We had 19 people there, a delicious dinner, a fun time with gifts, and two chocolate pies left at my house. That’s right, I conveniently “forgot” to take them over, so we just ate the Marie Callendar’s ones that Roland and Susan brought, and Ken, Robin, Megan and I had chocolate pie when we got home. 🙂 We’re planning to take Mom a piece today because she was soooo disappointed.
Pictures are posted here. Hope you all had as great a celebration as we all did.