And it's Christmas in the house too:
Last night was one of the best Christmas Eves that I can remember. We finished all our "to-do" list before noon and we were able to relax. At about 3:00, Dale and Cindy, and Darold and Cathy came here, and we started playing the game "Suspend" which I had recently bought. It's a simple but complex game of taking turns balancing rods on a center rod; we've been having a lot of fun with it.
Darold, with Cathy's help, tries his hand at the balancing act.
Dale next - with Cindy helping him concentrate:
At about 5:30 we all headed off to our church for the Christmas Eve service, Jim and Janette joined us there. Our church has a puppet ministry, I had never seen them perform, but they opened the program and absolutely amazed us! They were very professional! After that, the praise band and the congregation sang several Christmas songs and then our pastor led us in partaking of communion. It was a lovely service made even more so because the church has been decorated so beautifully for Christmas.
Then we all headed back to our house where Darold started cooking the oyster stew; the rest of us started munching on all the good food that was prepared, and again started playing the game.
This is Janette having a bowl of the oyster stew; Cathy is just enjoying the evening after a very stressful year of moving out of state and having a very demanding job:
Back to the game - Cindy trying her luck:
Besides the oyster stew, there were lots of munchies:
Jerry and Sharlene joined us later after having their Christmas with Jerry's family. We no longer draw names to exchange gifts, but to my surprise, I received some beautiful gifts from everybody. I am blessed!
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