Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00729

Today we were finally able to go to Cape Cod and visit with my parents and my sister and her husband. We couldn’t go down the day after Christmas as we had planned, nor stay the night. although, with our bedroom covered in things from my parent’s old house I don’t think we could have even slept there if we wanted to. We got going early and made it down by 10:15 or so. We hung out in our masks just in case 14 days was not long enough. We enjoyed seeing all of the decorations and finding those that we used to put up on the giant tree at my parent’s old house.

This year was going to be a different one anyway, without the virus lurking. This would be the first year where Christmas would be at The Cape. Well, it did not happen as we had hoped but it makes for a better transition for next year where the new traditions will begin. I do hope that we are able to stay for a day or two and enjoy more down time and Christmas fun together. I’ve got the perfect puzzle to make and this time I’ll let everyone else help more.

We enjoyed a nice lunch and then exchanged gifts. Auntie Tara and Uncle Erik gave the kids some great new headphones. I love this picture that they took in front of the tree.

Little did Uncle Erik know was that is how we’d be addressing Andy the whole ride home when we wanted to get his attention. Those headphones are great!

It was a nice day but next year I do hope that things are less crazy with the world around.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00725

Our Christmas day was pretty relaxed. We got up late and opened gifts. We had our cinnamon rolls after all the gifts were opened. It was a lighter year this year Some gifts did not arrive on time and some were for things and experiences in the future. Last year Allison and I gave each other some fun gifts for events but they did not happen because of the virus.

Also, because of the virus we were home. We did not venture down to the Cape to spend time with my parents and sister and brother-in-law. We stayed put and had a nice day, we did do Zoom calls for both sides of the family. The kids were excited about their gifts. Andy got a new controller for the Nintendo Switch and Eva got a Dungeons & dragons starter set and she is very excited about that. The kids got me some Hot Wheels and I got Allison some sewing lessons.

Eva also got Andy some Jingle Bell socks and he enjoyed wearing them all day long so he jingled while he walked.

Eva would like to do a D&D campaign soon. She really wants to be the dungeon master.

We had meat pie for dinner and then played some games including 5 Minute Marvel, a spin on the 5 Minute Dungeon games.

We all went to bed a little later than usual because of all the excitement, and probably sugar, from the day. It was a different Christmas but it was a nice one just the same.