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a traditional christmas....

well, okay, not really! this christmas has been a bit different around here. never mind buying a house and having the inspections on ours delayed causing a bit of concern to edge it's way in, christmas is supposed to be traditional. well this year some traditions made it - others did not.

for starters...one tradition to stay - sickness. oh yes, we are often plagued with sickness in this house for the holidays and this year was no exception. i was down for the count for a week with a bad chest cold. i recovered 2 days for my family christmas and then had that nasty roto-virus flu bug. it was not pleasant. due to being out of commission my family had to suffer through christmas without our cut-out cookie making.

then came the phone call that hubby's mom wanted to postpone christmas day. hmm...she must be really sick to postpone it. but with that getting pushed back we found ourselves home all day on christmas.

then came the ice, and although i'm sure we would have been fine, the decision to stay put on christmas eve followed. no trip to grandmas. this is a tradition i am not ready to give up and in many ways felt this may have the been the last with my grandparents. so while sad, i am glad to be safe, and we held an impromptu lunch and game day at my parents with my brother's family.

even the traditional christmas movies were a struggle to fit in. we did manage a few nights with our recorded old flicks - rudolph, frosty, etc... hubby and i watched a few new ones this year but i was ready for the old faithfuls.

well, christmas morning arrives and hubby is going stir-crazy. so we did something we've never done. we loaded up the kids and headed to the movies. an exciting chipmunks movie is perfect for a rainy christmas afternoon. we stopped to visit the in-laws who truly looked happy to see us, but grateful for having had a quiet day. then we headed to the chinese restaurant for christmas night dinner. hmm....something about chinese for christmas dinner had me thinking "christmas story" which is a faithful christmas flick, that finally got watched last night.

i missed the traditions. i really did, but i also learned that it is fun to go with the flow and see what comes our way. i've enjoyed playing games with my kids and realizing that they are growing up. i've enjoyed watching us all sit and read, or for mapboy, word search books. so yes, it has been a bit different this year, but it has been sweet nonetheless.

and definitely, a christmas not soon to be forgotten!

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