This year Christmas fell on a Wednesday and it was Greta’s and Nick’s year to come home for Christmas. Since Greta wanted to stay for 2 weeks so she could attend Jamie’s mother, Deb’s, memorial/celebration of life service she decided to drive from Denver. She and Nick left Denver Saturday morning and arrived Sunday evening around 9 PM. Esther and I had tickets to the botanical garden wonderlight show that evening at 5:30 but were home by 7PM plenty of time to cook a pork tenderloin for pork sliders for a late night dinner.

Monday night Esther and I hosted Greta and Nick for dinner at Esther’s house we all cooked.

Tuesday, Christmas Eve, Robin and Andrea were going to drive up after work but had to cancel at the last minute because Robin rolled his foot and had to go to the ER for X-rays because it hurt so bad he thought it was broken. I had made a cod chowder for Christmas evening thing it was a good dish for when Robin and Andrea arrived

Wednesday, Christmas Day, we decided to drive to Macon, the day after Christmas, amnd dop our stocking with Robin and Andrea. Esther could go because she had a scheduled Pilates appointment and eye doctor appointment. She had just had cataract surgery on Friday Dec 20th and was anxious to have it looked at because she didn’t feel like her sight in the eye was getting better – but all was good. We had a grass fed, 4 rib roast, from Earth Fare for dinner with brussel sprouts, green beans and a salad for dinner.

Thursday, trip to Robin and Andrea house in Macon. We all, Greta, Nick, me and Isla, left around 8:30 in the morning. We brought all of the stockings, some prime rib and the Dutch cheese Esther and I brought back from the Netherlands. We did our stocking, snacked on cheese and crackers and ate so delicious cinnamon rolls that Andrea had made. We left around 2:30PM because we had invited Andy and Jen’s family over that night for a small Christmas get together. We got home about 5PM and Esther was already there and had taken the girls out to pee. Then, with everyone’s help we got ready for our party with: Andy, Jen, Carrie, Ewen, Rae, Sammie, Pete(Jen’s brother) and Sue(Jen’s sister) and it was a very fun evening with lots of conversations and laughs.