Christmas 2024 -- thoughts

[Houndoc]

A very different Christmas for us this year- did not see any of my kids or grandkids on Christmas Eve (just my wife and I eating out) or Christmas Day (my parents came over for dinner)

But the week before we had my oldest daughter, her husband and 2 kids with us for 8 days (they live in Pullman, WA) and the other kids (both married, one with two kids and a dog) spent 4 of those day at our house, including staying overnight even though all live within 45 minutes of us.
Had a blast that week.

We made a plan to have all the kids spend the same Christmas with the in-laws so we get all of them together on 'our year'.

 

[DAA]

We have to deal with the "our year" thing too. Usually, but not always and not this year, we just do Christmas two days in a row to get around it. Wasn't feasible this year though.

- DAA

 

[Pike2350]

Well the dumpster was a big success. Came home from work and this is how high it was filled. Thanks again @jeeper

 

[UNSTUCK]

I just figured the FIL saw an impressive display at Costco/Sam’s 🤣

I guess my FIL saw the same thing as we got two blankets as well. 😂

Other than that and the jeep it was a very typical Christmas for us. One of us always gets sick and this year Mary drew the short straw. She was out of bed long enough to open presents then right back in. This morning we cleaned up where we were staying and drove home a day early. My neighbor put the new jeep in our driveway and had that ready for us. It was super cool. What a fun surprise for her. Too bad she was too sick to really enjoy it.