Christmas

I had a wonderful Christmas!Michael braved the roads and came up. He spent hours killing time at Tully’s while I finished my work shift. He spent a little time after we closed the store hanging out at the registers, chatting up a few employees. They all love him, think he’s handsome, and enjoyed conversing with him. Yeah! Then he whisked me off to Mom and Dad’s house, where we joined the rest of the family for great Swiss cold cuts and rolls, drink, cookies, caroling and mingling. Lots of laughing and joking ensued, and all was white and wonderful and as close to perfect as possible It was fun to watch Madeline open a few gifts, and it would seem she enjoyed the butterfly gift tag I made her enough to play with it the remainder of the time she was there.Then the extended family departed, and Mom, Dad, Michael and I opened up our gifts by candlelight. I certainly had a wonderful time sharing all this with Michael. Of course, I received wonderful, thoughtful gifts, and enjoyed every second of Christmas candlelight. On the 26th, Michael and I headed for his place. I was a few minutes behind him in my car, and when I turned onto his road I saw his car, stuck in the snow. Okay, not stuck, but it wasn’t going to make it any further forward. Seconds later, he arrived on the ATV to pick me up. *grin * What fun! We had no power, but he hooked up the generator and took care of me for the weekend. Such a sweetie! I had a fun time riding on the tractor and the ATV, and tromping around doing house stuff. We cleared a bookshelf off and moved it into the office. It resides across from my computer, and has a smattering of my things on it. It feels really good to see them there.Power came back on a hair before Sunday rolled in, and we enjoyed Internet connection, lights, and oven usage(yeah for tater tots!). I headed home on freshly plowed roads and am here to report that it was a truly fine and fabulous Christmas for me!