How do I describe Christmas 2008 ? It was low key...but very busy. I didn't take any vacation time off the entire week. Between American Express and Pier One, I will have worked 65 hours before the week is up. However, with that being said....Christmas was nice.
Christmas Eve, we (my parents, the kids and I) went to church at College Park Church on Aycock Ave, where I have been attending. It was beautiful. It was really crowded. The celebration of Jesus' birth at the church was beautiful...the choir...the pipe organ...the scripture reading.
Afterwards, we went home and had our traditional Christmas Eve Soup Dinner. My Uncle Harvey and Aunt Margaret came over for dinner. It was a good night. It was relaxed...and we sat and chatted for hours.
Christmas Day was spent at my parents for lunch. I was really tired from being up late Christmas Eve , wrapping presents. We had my Aunt Dot (my mom's oldest sister) for lunch. I wonder if she will be with us next Christmas - The Parkinson's Disease is progressing and she is becoming weaker. Just this past week, she fell and laid in the floor the entire night. She should have used the Lifeline (a necklace around her neck to make an emergency contact).....but she didn't want to bother any one !!! OMG !! When Mom and Dad got the call and got to her house...her body was so "frozen", they couldn't get her up...and had to call 911 -
I had to work at American Express that night. It was definitely anticlimatic ! It could have been worst..but it wasn't a bad night at work. Thank goodness, I enjoy my job.
NOTE: My oldest son was not home for Christmas this year ! He stayed in NYC with his BF. He's been appropriately warned that he WILL be home next Christmas !
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