Wishing you a very happy holiday! It is low key for us with our travel to SE Asia- see post (we were delighted with Christmas decor there)- and time with Stoner Family! We'll post our Happy New Year Card and invite for Derby Party 2025 Soon!
It really is a beautiful time of year, and we value all the ways we engage and connect! Thank you for the gift you give us by being in our lives, it is a gift!
Enjoy the quiet and peace, anticipation and promise of Christmas, Winter Solice and your own faith's stories! Warmly- Susan and Joe
Updated on this X day of Christmas (Dec. 27-28 ish?)...
Stoner Christmas 2024- Key West!
Yay Nana for "Under One Roof" holidays, setting expectations and facilitating the reunion. At this point they are reunions with schedules and kids ages it is hard to gather in the summer. The last get together was Thanksgiving 2023- in Granville! And that is when this planned was hatched. Matt did a great job- co-cooredinting as he's been to Key West since Sarah and I had been in the 1980s- a family vacation we don't have much memory about, hmmmm....digital pictures really do help!
What I love is how my kids love "away Christmas"...we did this the year after Daddy died, in Ashville. It really did work and fit a need- new memories, fresh scenery but a way to be together. Key West didn't disappoint. Photos below tell the story...we had beach time, dinners, lots of walks and coffee time...we found some bars and live music. Christmas Eve service we opted for Episcopal and an hour and forty minutes later, insencesd out we agreed it was beautiful.
We're back and have our family of five under one roof! No Christmas tree this year (I am missing it) but some decor to make it feel festive. More later, including photos!
Update on this 11th Day of Christmas!
Sally's birthday is tomorrow, the house is quiet. Clare left to go to Caroline in Texas, Peter left to enjoy friend time and a Wabash basketball game in Indina before the return to Iowa and Sally is at DePauw for JTerm. She went a day early- snow concern. Peter altered his route to be more northern and headed out in the morning. Knowing they're all at the their destinations allow us to savor the quiet of this last day of "break"and holiday time. Tomorrow we jump back into full time work.
We've had a wonderful break/holiday! This chapter in our lives is really about embracing family time at this time of year. Here are some pictures that share the story- gifts and reading, celebrating, dinners- being together!
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