Christmas actually began early morning of December 23 at about five minutes after midnight that morning. I picked up Axel and Jeremy at Jeremy's apartment, and they came here to stay the night.
Around 8:30 the following morning, Anne knocked on the door to their room telling them they should be awake to see if Santa had come to visit them. Within a few moments, they were in the kitchen where I was cooking breakfast of bacon and pancakes. Anne led them to the dining room which is where the Christmas tree is. We had an early Christmas with them that morning. By the time I was finished cooking breakfast, our grandson, Jonathan, had arrived to stay the day with us.
Since Jeremy had to be at work by two pm at the mall, Axel and I dropped him off there and went back to his apartment. I kinda helped but mostly "supervised" as Axel cleaned the apt since Jeremy's mom was on her way here to take them home with her for Christmas in Midlands near Charlotte. Jonathan was here at home with Anne for the rest of the day.
Early Christmas Eve morning I was out of bed and busy in the kitchen beginning to prepare the Christmas Eve dinner to be held here that evening with our son Jon, and his children, Rose and Jonathan. Anne's Aunt Doris would also be here for dinner.
At the appointed time Jon arrived with Rose and Jonathan with the car filled with gifts for everyone. Within a few minutes Doris had arrived with more food to add to our dinner and another car filled with more gifts. After the Christmas feast, we celebrated Christmas and watched the movie White Christmas. For sure, Christmas Eve evening was as storybook success.
First thing Christmas morning, Anne and I were at Jon's house to see what Santa had brought the kids. Oddly enough this was the first time we had been with the grandkids on Christmas morning to inspect the loot from Santa and this was Rose's 17th Christmas.. Wow.. finally.. Santa was very good to the kids this year, as he always is.
By mid morning Anne, Doris and I were on our way to Charlotte to visit Anne's cousin, Dianne and her husband Mike. We were there for lunch during which time Mike's sister Barbara dropped by with a chocolate pie and pecan pie she had made for them. Later Dianne's brother, Rodney, came by for a visit
Around 5 pm we left Dianne's home to drive to Midlands to pick up Axel and Jeremy. With the car filled with gifts and left over foods, the five of us were our way to McAdenville, NC also knows as Christmastown. The entire town is decorated for Christmas. Unfortunately, after waiting for way too long on the side of the Interstate at the exit into McAdenville, we decided the wait would be too long and the Christmas lights would just have to wait. We dropped Axel and Jeremy off at Jeremy's around 9:30. When Anne and I dropped Doris off at her house we stayed for a short visit then we went home. Later I went back to Greenville to pick up Axel, and he was here for Christmas night.
The following morning the three of us, Anne, Axel, and I began the tasks of undecorating our house from Christmas. After lunch I took Axel back to Greenville.
This Christmas did not follow our traditonal schedule, but looking back it seems like a stroy book Christmas. Everything was as perfect as possible. This Christmas will be remembered as one of the
best ones, thanks to the love of family and friends.
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