Christmas

December 25, 2021

Had the Zoom session with Mike, Lisa, Annika, Alesa and me here, Jeff, Danielle, Bailey and Bridget in Arizona and Elyse in State College. Since we are separated at Christmas, we have been doing a secret Santa name draw for the last two years which makes gift giving much less complicated. We did the gift exchange with the gifts which were shipped earlier. Alesa and I also give separate gifts and left the gifts for the Arizona Crawfords at their house when we left earlier this month and will take Elyse's gifts to her at school tomorrow. It was a great Zoom session and we had follow-up facetime sessions with Jeff's family then with Elyse. There were also games played during the down times. Mike and Lisa usually hide wrapped stocking stuffer type gifts for the girls and have them race to find them on Christmas. This Christmas was no different as Annika searched for them today and Alesa and I were the eyes and hands for Elyse using facetime as she searched for hers at the same time. Annika found her eight gifts before Elyse, but it was very close. Mike and family also exchanged gifts today. We all took a nice long walk in perfect weather and were planning to get take-out Chinese but made noodles and ate leftovers instead. We are ending the day by watching football.