We were in no hurry to get out of bed this morning. No little kids around waiting excitedly for their gifts. My guests coming in to the foaling apartment asked if they could come in early. Since it wasn't rented last night I took the golf cart up to turn the lights on and realized the heat had been turned down. Mark used his phone to turn that up. I think it made it to the set point by the time they arrived. We left for church a little later as there was no Sunday school. It was nice to see church so full. Tim Roecker had the Christmas message. Click HERE to listen to that message. We left pretty quickly as I needed to flip the barn. The family that came yesterday were thrilled with the place and left a nice 5 star review. The next family was coming in today and I was pushed to get everything done by 1:00 pm. when I got to Joan's Mark and Jacob were out grilling the steak when Ruth brought in her twice baked loaded potatoes.
Nancy was admiring the manger scene. This is the very same manger scene we had when we were little. Dad cut out the figures and mom painted them. They have held up well and are probably around 70 years old.
Ruth, Joan and I had all brought sparkling grape juice, below mom, Nancy, Karin and Ruth are giving a Merry Christmas toast.
We had a full table set with good china and delicate fluted glasses.
The youngest was Chelise, Hannah and Jacob's daughter.
After that amazing Christmas dinner we were sitting in front of the fireplace and Nancy wanted to sing for us. She started laughing and her laugh was so contagious we all started laughing.
We have never seen her laugh at herself like this and of course we couldn't stop either. By the time she finished the last song our sides hurt from laughing so hard. Then Joan brought out the games. I don't know the name of the game we played but it was a lot of fun.
Around 5:30 pm Nancy was ready to go home. I took her first to mom's to get her bags then to her house in Morton. We had a fun trip home looking at Christmas lights. The new barn guests arrived around 1:45 pm and right away sent a message, "This is wonderful -Thank you SO much! I'm always thrilled when I hear that. This is a family from Princeville and I think Rhonda is a cousin. Rhonda has something like 200 first cousins so I wasn't surprised when I heard that. Today really was a great day!
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