In recent years I had come to dread that question. Friends would ask how my Christmas was and then proceed to tell about taking their entire family on a Christmas Cruise, skiing in Colorado, and so on….you get the picture.

Christmas was pretty low key in my family, but a lot of fun too. When  the grandkids came along I started having a small pre-Christmas party early in December with lots of old fashioned party Igames and a big pot of Chalupa,

However,  this year, due to some crazy health incidents,I wasn’t up to giving the party. You have all heard me complain (ok, whine) about being sidelined for several months. I was eventually able to do a little shopping for our family gift exchange at my daughter’s and son # 2 and his wife offered to pick me up.

This holiday turned out to be one of the best. The light were fantastic on the homes. The Christmas concerts were all beautiful on television. The personal notes from friends and cousins on cards meant more to me this year, The video I received of my little l8 month old great-great granddaughter doing her best to march to the beat of her brother’s school orchestra and even better a movie of her trudging thru her first snowfall looking a little excited but perplexed?

Son # 1 had crazy work hours this year and the two  of us celebrated Christmas on the Saturday before. Dinner was at six o’clock and we were still sitting at the table talking at 2:30 A. M.!

# 2 great-grandson, home from college on Christmas break insisted we go for a kind of New Years lunch. I thought he would get busy and forget about it, but he persisted and we had a wonderful lunch and came home and talked and shared some tangerines from my tree. We touched on every subject under the sun.

His older brother, #1, a third year medical  student in Pennsylvania called me and we talked for an hour out of his hectic schedule of rotations! He filled me in on his classes and experiences; I couldn’t have received a better gift.

At one time or another, almost everyone told me they missed my old fashioned Christmas party this year and said they were looking forward to it next year.

So, thanks  for asking, I had a wonderful Christmas.