{"id":10233,"date":"2023-12-26T14:34:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T19:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10233"},"modified":"2023-12-26T14:34:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T19:34:40","slug":"we-had-a-very-nice-christmas-eve-family-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/12\/26\/we-had-a-very-nice-christmas-eve-family-gathering\/","title":{"rendered":"We had a very nice Christmas Eve family gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"

So our grandchildren could spend Christmas day enjoying their gifts and stockings, we decided to have our family Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve instead of Christmas. It was very enjoyable, as usual. Bill and his family and David and his family came. We had lots of fun watching everyone opening their gifts. Especially as Delilah is now old enough to understand gifts! She was so cute, running to help everyone open their packages. And there was nothing careful about it. She would grab two handfuls of wrapping paper and rip it off, throwing it over her shoulder for Ava to pick up and put in the trash bag. Then she’d dash to the next person who held a gift. By the time we were all done, her cheeks were as red as apples. No wonder Mom had to take her home for a nap!<\/p>\n

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We got a kick out of how fast Delilah was helping rip open presents. Her own and everyone else’s! So funny!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bill knew I was having a hard time going down the basement stairs without a railing, with my two bad knees. So, when they came, he had a stair railing on the top of his car. After dinner, he and David put it up. I am so very happy. Now I can go down to the pantry in much more safety than before. How nice that is! David gave us a cast iron tea kettle. Now I have replaced the very old, ugly saucepan that held water for steaming humidity in our dry house with a pretty black kettle. The only thing is that it makes the stove look ugly. I will have to black it soon to make it match the kettle.<\/p>\n

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I love to have our table packed with family and good food on holidays. (Will took the photo and I was holding baby Melanie in the living room.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Baby Melanie enjoyed Christmas, although not realizing what was going on. She still looked around with interest and even smiled at folks who made funny faces at her. It’s amazing how quickly those tiny babies grow up! She even turned over herself, at only two months of age! Yep, and grandson, Mason, is getting ready to take his driver’s test and get his license. Holy cow, they grow up way too quickly!<\/p>\n

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I got to hold sweet Melanie while Mom had her dinner. (Hey, I can eat anytime!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our seed catalogs came on Christmas Eve. I was excited but pretty unhappy with the way FedEx delivered them. They were just set on the wet, muddy ground by our front gate, in the rain, with no covering or plastic bags. Luckily, I had just come from town. They couldn’t have been there more than half an hour or so. But still, they should have driven them to the house, where Will was waiting. Or called him so he could come out and get them. I would have hated to have them sit there overnight! Now we get ready for a rush of seed orders. With the way groceries are increasing in price and the size of everything shrinking, I think folks will be wise to grow a nice big garden this year! I know we will, as usual. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So our grandchildren could spend Christmas day enjoying their gifts and stockings, we decided to have our family Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve instead of Christmas. It was very enjoyable, as usual. Bill and his family and David and his family came. We had lots of fun watching everyone opening their gifts. Especially as Delilah […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10237,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233\/revisions\/10237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}