Christmas unwrapped

So Christmas is done for another year. Thankfully.

I do enjoy the holiday but there is just so much stress involved, as I'm sure you can relate. So that is why I tried to be serious in the posts leading up to and on Christmas. It was a good way for me to keep focused on the things at hand.

On Christmas morning, my kids woke up sometime after 6 AM but didn't get me up until 7:15. After tearing thru the meager presents I had for them, we had breakfast and prepared to go to church. Christmas doesn't often fall on a Sunday. In my likely remaining lifetime, Christmas will fall on a Sunday six more times: in 2011, 2016, 2022, 2033, 2039 and 2044. If I'm lucky I might be able to add three more in 2050, 2061 and 2067, when I'll be 98. Heck, my grandfather is 96 at present and still going strong (relatively speaking) for a nanogenerian. My grandmother died at 94 in 2001. My other grandmother is 88. So I have a chance based on heredity.

Anyway, my pastor just recently returned from leading a group to Israel and was the inspiration behind yesterday's post about Bethlehem. Don't miss it.

We drove to my parent's house and exchanged more gifts with the fam and had a wonderful turkey dinner with all of the fixins. I'm all over that tryptophan...

We met my ex at our usual meeting spot at 5 PM and then I went home and watched football while I wrote.

V spent the afternoon today with one of her friends from the old neighborhood, while M and I hung out at my apartment. My ex dropped them off so that she could go and babysit for her niece without distraction.

It rained all day today, sometimes really hard - which was good. That means it was too warm for snow. Unusual for central New England this time of the year to be this warm. No wonder why I have a cold right now...