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Holidays
What a good idea - and I do feel as if I know so many of you through this website, so it's good to know what your plans are.
My Mum and Dad (who live in Maine) are coming down to our Long Island house for the holiday. My mother-in-law will come to visit for the day from the nursing home she lives in. We'll have a quiet day, but with the usual English holiday habits (I'm English, but the entire family moved here in the late 70s) - pulling crackers between the turkey and dessert so we can all sit around with silly paper crowns on reading the incredibly bad jokes that come in the crackers, Dad setting light to the brandy soaked Xmas pudding (and hoping it will stay lit from the kitchen to the dining room), and then eating (heavy and rich) Xmas cake in the afternoon when you really have room for not one thing more!! Then we'll head back to Brooklyn on Boxing Day and my brothers and their families will come in for gifts and lunch. We've scaled back so much on gifts in the last few years (for the adults anyway - the kids seem still to get tons of stuff!) and it makes it all much more fun somehow. We haven't put a tree up in a couple of years, but always drape greenery around and enjoy the wonderful pine-y smell. This will be my second Christmas since diagnosis, and I'm glad I'm here for this one, and intend to be around for many more! Good wishes for a healthy and happy new year to all. Jo
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