Though we were far from our friends and children, we had a good Christmas this year, I think, because of all the Christmas spirit we experienced. For one, we started early! Mid November I started making lists of things to make, and then making them. By the first week of December we were ready to begin sending out the first of several Christmas boxes. It was fun planning them, and thinking about what kinds of sweets and treats the kids had enjoyed over the years. Sending a box a week kept the Christmas fun going for 3 weeks!
Secondly, having the living room decorated from top to bottom was also a boost and playing Pandora's wide variety of continuous Christmas music contributed greatly!
In addition, over the course of the three weeks leading to Christmas day we watched every Christmas movie that we have--and even those which have a Christmas scene or two in them.
We attended the ward Christmas Party, where Aunt Grace dressed up as Mrs. Claus and helped Santa hand out treats to the little kids. It also helped that they served grilled steak and had an abundance of salads and desserts! The two weeks before Christmas brought the postman and the UPS guy to the door with presents from our family! I wrapped those that weren't wrapped, and placed them all under the tree. That was so nice!
Our Christmas tree was very pretty and lifelike. So much so, that one morning when I went to plug in the Christmas lights I thought about how I had forgotten to water the tree. And then I remembered that this tree didn't need watering! The day before Christmas Dad and I went to Cody to shop for each other. I bought Dad a digital indoor outdoor thermometer and he bought me a webcam for my computer. We naturally wrapped them and put them under the tree.
We cooked a Turkey and all the trimmings on Christmas Eve day. We would have spent the day with Grace and Jeff if they hadn't decided to drive down to SLC and surprise their kids and grandkids!
And so, we spent Christmas morning the way we began-- just the 2 of us. Upon contemplation of such a thing, we realized that it had been 37 years since we had spent a Christmas alone. Chicago, 1974. Little did we know what lay ahead--so many Christmases with so many wonderful memories!
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