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Christmas Eve 2025 ...

Christmas Eve 2025

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02535

Today is Christmas Eve. We are all off of school and finishing up last minute things for the holiday. Allison made her chicken soup for dinner and we went to 4pm Mass for the holiday. We got the yearly photo of the kids in front of the nativity scene.

Nativity Scene

After Mass we drove home quickly to get bundled up for a walk around La Salette to see the lights. It was frigid cold out and we had to basically speed walk around the place. No stopping at the Nativity Scene Museum today, Allison had gone earlier in the week with her friend Jenn.  We made one lap and headed home for some hot chicken stew.

Bundled at La Salette

The big pile of tree trunks from our trees were picked up this morning. A guy came with a truck with a giant grabber arm and he vey efficiently picked through the logs and put them onto his truck. He must have an amazing sense of space because they fit on that truck very well. We all watched.

removing trees

After dinner we watched a movie. We watched many Christmas movies this year. I'm not sure if it was Muppet Christmas Carol tonight or something else. They all started to blend but it was great to enjoy these with the kids. 

We gave the kids their Icelandic Christmas gifts (book and chocolate). Eva got a book that shed been wanting to read for some time and I found Andy a Stranger things graphic novel all about the Hellfire Club (the D&D Campaign from Eddie Munson, andy's favorite character.) 

Allison and I were to bed at a reasonable hour because we had been wrapping things the past couple of days instead of last minute. That did not mean that I slept well at all. Nope, had two nightmares including one where I showed up for the first rehearsal of The Winter Wolf only to find that it was opening night. I guess that when you have to sub in often enough it becomes ingrained. in you.

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