Our Christmas this year might have been one of the more difficult, but best we've had in a long while.
We had originally planned to go to Tennessee for Christmas to avoid the tough times. In fact, we had reservations for about three weeks. After the forecast called for five straight days of rain there, we canceled the Monday before Christmas. Of course, as the day arrived, Tennessee had perfect weather with just a momentary rain on Christmas Eve.
However, the change was the best thing we could have done.
Our weather was really iffy, cold but not sure if we would have snow. The day before Christmas Eve, it looked more and more like we might have a dusting to have a White Christmas. It was cold and snowed, but never amounted to much leading up to the holiday weekend.
On Christmas Eve, we got up and headed to a church we had visited the week prior. It turned out to be a beautiful service that honored the birth of our Savior. Even though it was 10 am, we had a beautiful candlelight service. We drove in a brief snow shower on the way to church and the morning was perfect.
After church, we headed to Dayton to do last minute shopping. That means, my husband did last minute Christmas shopping while the dogs and I hung out in the car and watched people act erratically. We got home in time to watch some football and Christmas Vacation. It did start snowing that afternoon/evening.
We woke up to a cold morning with about 4" of snow, a white Christmas indeed. I tried to surprise my husband with bubble bread like his mom made, but failed miserably since I was missing a key ingredient.
We swapped gifts and gave the dogs treats out of their stocking. We changed things up a little this year with the loss of our Lucy. We decided to go down to one dog stocking and one each for us. The dogs' was a dog that shook it's ears and sang Christmas music. Remi loved it!
The dogs napped with full bellies and my husband watched tv while I started on lunch.
I fixed a prime rib for the first time. I was a little nervous. Such an expensive cut of meat and one shot to make it right. It turned out great. I made mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans, cranberry sauce and we had a cake from the local grocery store. Since the oven would be occupied by the prime rib, I decided to bail on baking a dessert. Lunch was wonderful. It was certainly better than our Golden Coral Thanksgiving lunch.
There were naps and tv. It was an incredibly peaceful day, so relaxing. Kent talked to his dad and sister that night and we got two texts from friends.
The day was everything I could have wanted it to be. We had a beautiful snow fall and everything we needed or wanted.
Kent was off for four days at Christmas and four days at New Years. It was nice to have so much time with him. We also got a lot done, like getting drivers licenses and car tags transferred. It was a huge relief to get all that done before the close of the year.
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