Well, my Merry Christmas starts today with the family going "thru the woods and over the hills to Granma's Condo we go!"........We are missing our two missionaries, Richie and Alex and Nicci and Bill. But, it is what it is and there will be plenty of fun and games, food and presents.....LOVE to fill my little condo. We are thoroughly covered with snow everywhere because of the humongous ice and snow storm yesterday .It is cold also. This is like my winters growing up in Colorado, but it adds so much to holidays that they don't have in Arizona. We plowed through deep snow to find the perfect Christmas tree to cut down......which each kid liked a different one and when my father got to freezing he cut down the one closest to the car!......and we loved it. We didn't have fancy decorations and lights but it was beautiful to us anyway. Not many presents and the few that were there had been unwrapped and rewrapped, pinched, shaken, etc. until we pretty well knew what was in each one. My folks took us to the big town of Durango to do "our" shopping. Dad gave each child a little money and we went to the Woolsworth Store, a step up from the dollar store....where we snuck around buying presents for everyone.......this was a special memory I will always cherish. Then we went to a Chinese restaurant to eat afterwards which was a treat because we never had nice places in Mancos to eat. As we got older there was the BIG Christmas Eve dance ......and you could wear your new outfit. Oh yes those were great Christmases growing up in a wonderful family.......and I feel very lucky and thankful for those good memories.
Well, moving on to finish up the dozen details and be ready for my families tonight.
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