Our celebrations begin with Elsa's birthday a week before Christmas in our freshly decorated home.
Christmas Eve traditions have changed without a grandparents' home to gather in. Now we like to have a quiet evening with different friends each year. Usually the evening begins with a special church service as well. But this year that was saved for the next morning - Christmas Day.
Christmas Day was rainy and coated the roads with a layer of ice that is still not all gone. But quite a few of our cousins, aunts and uncles got out for a couple of hours together with Grandpa in the afternoon.
Grandpa's 100th Christmas
It had been months since Elsa and I made it over to Maren and Jason's home, so we planned a special outing into Christmas week.
I finally finished the pair of socks (my first!) begun a year ago. Well... I had to go home, tear back a bit, and loosen the bind-off the next day. But I wore them home!
It was also a good day to get more tracing done for our LuoPad donations. (learn more here and here)
Meanwhile, Elsa made progress on her cabled sweater sleeves, and Maren made finger-puppets that are already being given out to children overseas by some of our friends.
New Year's brought together some other cousins and relatives that we rarely get to see.
And I got to wear my new socks! ;-)
Then, several weeks after beginning, Maren and Jason joined us for the last several rounds of our annual, 16-round, train-dominoes game.
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