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Christmas 2019

After the second group of house guests left, Hubby and I were able to regroup for the third and final wave of guests of the year. House cleaning, washing, resting, and a Christmas tree were completed in the week before their arrival. The Chick took the initiative  and got a menu plan set up for when all the immediate family were going to be here. It was a GREAT help! We filled the week with an activity almost everyday, movies, hatched throwing, sledding, card games ("Taco, Cat, Goat, Cheese, Pizza"), a family photo shoot, an extended family pub crawl, and a shot at the escape room. It was so nice to have everyone here for Christmas. This year I bought the grandkids a puzzle box with some cash in each box. Rather than open them from youngest to oldest as we usually do, I had them open their gift from us all at once, after ten minutes of trying to open the boxes we moved on to the next person and as the gift opening came around to each grand kid they could opt for 10 m...