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Christmas Eve 2023

At Church
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Christmas Eve this year was a little different. I worked overnight and normally I try and take both the weekend of Christmas and the Weekend of New Years off. However, with the small group that I am part of I did not want to leave everyone in a lurch so I did work a couple nights this weekend and had today off to get ready for tomorrow. I slept for a bit and when I got up I went over to Chubs Blue Pig BBQ to pick up our Christmas meal.

picking up dinner

This year since we were not going to be with everyone in the family we decided to switch things up and go for BBQ instead. Chubs had a order form a couple of weeks back so that we could get a few things that we liked and we could pick them up on Christmas Eve to warm them up on Christmas day. We went with ribs, pulled pork, wings and mac and cheese. I was able to pop in and pick everything up and get home to get ready for the rest of the day.

We went to 4pm Mass at Sacred Heart. It was not packed as it had been on past years but there were also 3 4pm Masses happening at once so that helped spread out the crowds. After Mass I had the kids go and pose in front of the Nativity Scene. Something that we’ve done so many years. Missed it last year while we were in Florida but most other years we were able to get that shot.

After Mass we came home and had our Christmas Eve chicken stew with my sister Shelby and her husband Tim and my nephew and niece. It was nice to have them come over so that the kids could play together and we could share a meal. We had a very nice time hosting and were glad that they could come down.

the tree

Allison and I finished up by getting the gifts under the tree and then watching some Christmas Movies including my favorite, Christmas Vacation. It is funny watching the sanitized for TV version but I do like the uncut one much more. So many funny parts in that movie.

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Days Leading Up To Christmas

at Wild Time
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Everyone had the day off today so we worked on a few things leading up to Christmas. But first dad came down from the Cape to fix the kick plate in the bathroom. We had discovered that the outlet had been wired with too much power. He was able to fix that and connect the new kick plate so we’ll have heat in the bathroom now, just in time for the weather to get colder.

After Dad finished and left I ran out to Target to pick up a few more gifts for Andy.

Target was nuts. Allison took andy earlier in the day to shop for me for Christmas. Andy found things for me and also plenty of things for themselves. One thing that Andy got was a LEGO Floral set that makes a Floral centerpiece for the table. I did not know that they would enjoy something like that but they did. We had it on the table for dinner tonight. Allison sent me things that Andy picked out and I placed the order on the Target app to pick it up at the store. That was crazy, everyone else had the same exact idea.

I was there for a while but I had my audio book to keep me occupied. I’ve got 4 books left to finish of these series. Then I can re-listen to the Eragon series. But in between I’ll read the latest Percy Jackson book. We all watched the second episode of Percy Jackson together this morning. The series is shaping up to be really great.

Before I went to Target I went to Wild Time and pick up some comics. Randy had the mannequin set up to look like Star Lord Santa. so I took a selfie.