As it turned out this year, only Clayton came home for Christmas. And we had a great time. Chelsea had a baby, Jordan moved to Arizona, Denton moved to Washington state, and Lindsay went to Utah. So it just left us 3.
We started Christmas Eve day with eggs and bacon and then a yummy Christmas lunch at BRIO ( one of our favorite restaurants). They are known for their fabulous bisteca wedge salad with gorgonzola cheese and bacon dressing.....great bread and pasta. After a relaxing and delicious lunch, we went to see " True Grit" at the new "Cinnebistro". It was a beautiful theatre with really comfortable seats. We didn't eat there because we had just eaten ...but we want to go back and try the food. We hear it is good. The movie was great and the boys were really happy. We toured the Stoney Point mall ( Clayton pushing me in the wheelchair) to see the decor and festivities. We came home and set up our new Christmas present. Jordan's family and Clayton gave us Apple TV this year...so CTR hooked it all up and got us all set-up. It will be so nice to access Netflix's now w/o having to connect the computer. It is awesome. Greg did a smorgasbord of appetizers that we love , including smoked oysters for me. We watched a new DVD/ book we received, more movies and fell asleep.
Christmas morning ( after sleeping in) began with Greg's traditional sourdough pancakes and sausage. We missed all the kids here to help us eat them. We opened gifts , which was over in a few minutes:) Clayton loved his new Panini grill from us and his sliders cookware from Lindsay and Regan.. He is becomnig quite the cook. Lucky for us, because we will really miss all of Denton's gourmet meals. Seems like most of our kids or in-laws love to cook. And we even have some grandkids who love to cook too.
Then we went to another movie ( How do you know?) at the Regal Wheschester Commons). It was fun...not the best show ever but still entertaining. We came out to snow falling and got home quick before it got too bad. We got to skype or talk to all our other kids and grandparents , which made it really seem more like Christmas. Clayton made us his famous pasta for our Christmas dinner by candlelight with Ghiradelli brownies for dessert. More time realxing and watching TV. It was snowing again, so Clayton left around 9pm to get back to DC before the roads got too bad.
It was a quiet, low-key Christmas but we really enjoyed it and appreciated having Clayton all to ourselves. It doesn't happen very often. It was especially meanigful this year, after his scary car accident. We realize all the more how much we love all of our children and grandchildren and value the relationship we have with them. We received lovely gifts from all of them and aappreciate all their kindnesses to us.
It was a very difefrent but very nice Christmas. We have beautiful snowy trees outside to make it a White Christmas and a brand new baby granddaughter right from heaven to remind us of the most important things in life.
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SOunds like fun! Full of tradition and goodness.
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