Christmas 09

Christmas. When I think of Christmas, I think of family, food, gifts, candy canes, baking, music, the list goes on and on. This year we had a different Christmas which only contained a couple of the elements that I associate with Christmas. But it turned out to be ok because the real focus this year was family and making sure we were all together.

This year we had Christmas at my grandmas new home. She recenly moved into a retirement village where she has here own apartment and she goes to a common dining room for food and sometimes entertainment. She wanted us to have Christmas at her place this year to make some good memories at her new place.

Christmas is usually at my house, so it was a new thing to travel on Christmas day. I wasn't really looking forward to that part but it ended up being kinda fun. My family and my Aunt's family all caravaned (is that a word? haha) to grandma's on Christmas morning after a breakfast of my homemade cinnamon rolls and opening stockings (for my 2 little cousins, I don't get one anymore). We found some Christmas music on the radio and my brother even had some on his ipod. It was actually nice because it was the first time in a long time the 4 of us spent any long length of time all together in the same place.

We arrived around 11:30 just an hour before the dining room would be serving Christmas dinner! This was definitely different being as we normally have our Christmas feast around 6 or 7. But this year's theme was "go with the flow" so we put on our happy faces. I don't know if you have ever been to a retirement home/place/village but if you are under the age of 60 and you are at their place, you are a sight to see (especially when you are a party of 11, 4 under age 21, and 1 on roller skates).