Christmas 2022 took us to Meg and Mike's house out in West Bend. This has been a tradition now ever since they moved out there (with a COVID year gap). We drive out on Christmas Eve Day and she makes delicious cheese fondue for our meal. We sit around the table dipping veggies, fruit, bread, shrimp and tenderloin into the delicious "broth". Lots of laughter and conversations and a few dropped morsels going to the bottom of the heated cheese.
This year, after clean-up, we all sat around the smaller kitchen table to play dominoes. Friends taught us a new version a few weeks ago so we shared Chickenfoot Dominoes with them....and it really was fun. With one grandson a sophomore in college and the other a high school senior some of our game nights have fallen by the wayside. But everyone enjoyed this version! We played eight rounds before deciding to call it quits.
A little more conversation, boys wandering off to do their thing, yawns and general "slowing down" meant it was time to go to bed with visions of sugar plums dancing in our heads.
Morning was open-stocking-time and family gifts....always a fun time to be together. Three dogs examining their own stockings added to the confusion and activity! Another tradition is to eat Kringle while unwrapping the presents and then sitting down to an egg casserole full breakfast....yum.
Then, after another clean-up, we went back to the kitchen table and finished the last five rounds of Chickenfoot and I was the overall champion this time! :-)
A very Merry Christmas!
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