Christmas Recap

Christmas was a little “odd” this year since Grandma went into hospice and passed within just a few days’ time all around the holiday time.

But it was still very nice as always. We’ve been fortunate the last couple years to have more money than we have in the past. This year I even bought some more decorations which was really fun. So this is how Christmas was for the Fishers:

We were getting ready to go to a local ELCA service on Sunday when we got the call that David’s grandma was in hospice and wasn’t expected to live much past the next few hours.

So that all changed quickly. since we only have one car we got groceries that we needed and took care of a house we were house sitting and then David went to Denver to be with his family. He spent the rest of Sunday there and got home about 11pm.

Christmas Eve we hung out for a bit in the morning, took care of the house sitting house, I made cinnamon rolls, and then had gift opening for our family - the girls opened the gifts from us to them and then played with their new things until it was time to go to my parents’. On the way there, around 3pm, David called his mom to get an update on his Grandma, she was taking her last breaths and within 20 minutes or so after arriving at my parents’ she had passed. So that was sad but expected.

We were scheduled to go to David’s mom’s for Christmas day and she still wanted to do that but didn’t have much in the way of food so David went to the store before dinner at my parents’ to get some fixin’s since we didn’t know what would be open Christmas Day (turns out lots of markets were). He had a chance to have some time by himself to grieve a little which was good.

Then we had our traditional lamb stew for dinner and opened gifts with my parents. We got home around 10pm because we had to wait for quite a while for my brother to get off work.

Christmas morning the girls got their stockings from “santa” and then we got ready to go to David’s mom’s in Boulder. We spent the day there and then went home in the afternoon. Usually we go to David’s aunts’ for Christmas afternoon but she wasn’t up to it after spending the past several days with Grandma between the hospital and hospice. But she did bring gifts over and we each had something from Grandma to open.

So…we never made it to church which was weird but under the circumstances, Christmas was pretty typical and the girls loved their gifts.

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