I’ve only been at the computer sporadically the last week or so and didn’t make it to put up a Christmas greeting yesterday, but I hope you all did have a wonderful Christmas.

We certainly did. Jason and Mittu came over early, and we all had our traditional Christmas morning breakfast of sausage rolls and cinnamon rolls. I usually just put them out for people to get whenever they feel hungry: I guess it is a sign I have young adults rather than kids that everyone wanted to get a bite to eat first before diving into presents. 🙂

Jim read from Luke 2 and we talked a bit about how such a dynamic event as our Lord’s birth started out so small and humble. Then we enjoyed opening our gifts. I love how everyone enjoys seeing each other’s presents as well as their own.

Then we prepared the big feast. It’s so nice to have a daughter-in-law to split the meal responsibilities with. Jim brought his mom over for Christmas dinner and then we helped her open her gifts. We talked with his brother and his family via our iPhone’s FaceTime hooked up to Jim’s new Apple TV, and though Jim’s mom didn’t talk much, she was able to respond to their waves.

Then we all took a nap (or most of us did, I think), played with our new “stuff,” Jim made ham salad and we tucked into sandwiches and pie and then played a game. All in all a lovely day.

My big gift this year was a new PINK laptop. 🙂 I’ve always used the desktop, so I am looking forward to being able to compute more portably.

The usual fourth Tuesday What’s On Your Nightstand post has been postponed until tomorrow, as most people would not have been able to participate on Christmas Day. I’m going to work on a list of books read this year (need to get into the habit of doing that as I go along! But it is not too hard to just look at each monthly Nightstand post) and then try to pick out a top ten. And I always like to look back at my favorite posts of the year.

And then it will be time to look forward to a brand new year!