Christmas 2020

 Christmas was good.  I enjoyed all the family time, but I also missed the extended family time.  So I'll try to be positive about this year, but honestly it felt long.  A lot of other people were able to get together with family because they'd had Covid.  Or didn't care about Covid.  Unfortunately, none of our family has had Covid and Jake really can't afford to get Covid since we essentially have no employees.  So yes, I enjoyed Christmas with my family.  But we've been spending a lot of time with just our family and I'm getting tired.  That's all.  

I spent Christmas Eve in the kitchen.  I didn't think I was making anything too fancy, but it still took time.  Obviously I was off my game as far as planning ahead.  Kate also decided to make a cheesecake at that exact time (I tried to get her to make it the day before), so there were definitely too many people in the kitchen.  Sage was in charge of Christmas Eve.  We put her in charge of all events.  Some day I'm sure she'll hire herself out as an event planner.  We did talents, pinned the star on the Christmas tree, talked about the real meaning of Christmas, and watched a Christmas movie.  It was a most excellent night.

Christmas day was good.  Sage didn't wake everyone up until 7:30, so we're slowly making progress.  We opened presents and then had yummy breakfast and headed to ski.  The rest of the day was spent being lazy and enjoying new presents.  

Sage's decorations

Kate learned a song on the ukelele

Zack, being the compliant teenager that he is, played jingle bells on the piano with one hand.  There was no practicing involved

Sage choreographed a dance

Jake, as always, has extreme amounts of talent.  He made holders for skis so you can wax them.  Then gave us all a lesson in waxing

We had a basketball tournament

Pin the star on the Christmas tree.  Sage gets us to do all kinds of fun things.

Kate finally had success with her cheesecake.  Which hopefully means she won't be making any for a while.

I forgot to take a picture Christmas Eve, so the kids were thrilled to have me take one first thing in the morning.

Present opening aftermath

The kids were living the dream when they got the nintendo hooked up in the theater