I knew things would be bad if we were left alone on Christmas and I didn't want to spend the day at the cemetary.
I didn't want a repeat of our Thanksgiving disastor and I wished for some guests for weeks.
But we had no one to invite
On Saturday, Jerry's Pastor arrives on the doorstep, ham in hand. Jerry's not home so Dan and I had a talk with him. I had been cooking and baking, and mentioned a few million times to him that I don't know what for; because no one will be here to eat it and we'd gladly share if anyone showed up.
Fast forward to Sunday and Jerry comes home from Church and asks me what I have done......?
Huh? I dunno, what have I done???
He said the pastor announced from the pulpit that I have enough food to feed an army and said I wanted to invite the entire congregation to our Christmas feast !!!!!!!!!! Jerry said he sat there with his jaw on the ground. :new_shocked: :new_shocked: :new_shocked: :new_shocked: :new_shocked: :new_shocked:
ummmm aaaaaaaaa oh oh.........
So here comes Christmas Day. We had presents and went through the whole thing like robots. Not a dry eye in the house all day. You could cut the tension with a knife. I finally took a pill and went numb while Jerry took a nap and Dan watched movies in his room. There were family picture takings, but they are so bad, I can't post them. I held picture of Michael in all the family pictures because we will always be a family of four, not three.......... No one is smiling in the pictures and we all have very sad red eyes. I set up a buffet and we took our plates to the living room and we nibbled, nobody was really eating.
And then they came........Oh my word......... They really came~ oh oh......Well it wasn't a hundred, but enough. Just a few people, but I was armed and ready and straightened up really quick. I did the good hostess thing and it helped a lot having people over. Even two of Dan's friends showed up. He actually got out of his cruddy old camo pants and put on a decent new outfit.
The highlight of the evening was when everyone went out to the barn to see the Prancers. Jerry's idea. They were all nicely groomed, sporting their ribbons and bows and Jerry amazed me. He proudly showed them off and actually didn't mix up Chrissy and Merry Beth for once which he did for years. He spoke very intelligently about the breed and their care and introduced them one by one. He let Timmy & Knight Star loose in the isle-way and they were happy to show off how they wrestle each other and Timmy demonstrated how to mount and ride his brother sideways until Knight had enough and airlifted Timmy off sending him crashing into Sonny's wall. Timmy was like "oh rats" but got a lot of applause. Then they both went into their people mode and insisted on a round of petting and "love me love me love me" to their guests. Nick was voted "most awesome" and Glory was voted "most elegant" and Chrissy was voted "most adorable" & Silver Belle the "best color" Merry Beth put on her display of the most hyper and I voted Holly & Angel as the best incubators. Sonny won the biggest beast horse award . Very accurate on all counts. And Jerry shinned. He did his big bear hug thing with Nick, his pride and joy, and it was nice to see him show how much he really cared for our little ones.
After they all left the phone began to ring and it surely helped a lot to be able to hear a lot of friendly voices.
We're glad it's over though. I'm exhausted from worrying about it and ready to put our decorations away, but I'll be leaving Michael's tree up until after January 1st.
We couldn't have survived another minute without as John Lennon would sing "A little help from our friends"
Thank you again for all your support.
I didn't want a repeat of our Thanksgiving disastor and I wished for some guests for weeks.
But we had no one to invite
On Saturday, Jerry's Pastor arrives on the doorstep, ham in hand. Jerry's not home so Dan and I had a talk with him. I had been cooking and baking, and mentioned a few million times to him that I don't know what for; because no one will be here to eat it and we'd gladly share if anyone showed up.
Fast forward to Sunday and Jerry comes home from Church and asks me what I have done......?
Huh? I dunno, what have I done???
He said the pastor announced from the pulpit that I have enough food to feed an army and said I wanted to invite the entire congregation to our Christmas feast !!!!!!!!!! Jerry said he sat there with his jaw on the ground. :new_shocked: :new_shocked: :new_shocked: :new_shocked: :new_shocked: :new_shocked:
ummmm aaaaaaaaa oh oh.........
So here comes Christmas Day. We had presents and went through the whole thing like robots. Not a dry eye in the house all day. You could cut the tension with a knife. I finally took a pill and went numb while Jerry took a nap and Dan watched movies in his room. There were family picture takings, but they are so bad, I can't post them. I held picture of Michael in all the family pictures because we will always be a family of four, not three.......... No one is smiling in the pictures and we all have very sad red eyes. I set up a buffet and we took our plates to the living room and we nibbled, nobody was really eating.
And then they came........Oh my word......... They really came~ oh oh......Well it wasn't a hundred, but enough. Just a few people, but I was armed and ready and straightened up really quick. I did the good hostess thing and it helped a lot having people over. Even two of Dan's friends showed up. He actually got out of his cruddy old camo pants and put on a decent new outfit.
The highlight of the evening was when everyone went out to the barn to see the Prancers. Jerry's idea. They were all nicely groomed, sporting their ribbons and bows and Jerry amazed me. He proudly showed them off and actually didn't mix up Chrissy and Merry Beth for once which he did for years. He spoke very intelligently about the breed and their care and introduced them one by one. He let Timmy & Knight Star loose in the isle-way and they were happy to show off how they wrestle each other and Timmy demonstrated how to mount and ride his brother sideways until Knight had enough and airlifted Timmy off sending him crashing into Sonny's wall. Timmy was like "oh rats" but got a lot of applause. Then they both went into their people mode and insisted on a round of petting and "love me love me love me" to their guests. Nick was voted "most awesome" and Glory was voted "most elegant" and Chrissy was voted "most adorable" & Silver Belle the "best color" Merry Beth put on her display of the most hyper and I voted Holly & Angel as the best incubators. Sonny won the biggest beast horse award . Very accurate on all counts. And Jerry shinned. He did his big bear hug thing with Nick, his pride and joy, and it was nice to see him show how much he really cared for our little ones.
After they all left the phone began to ring and it surely helped a lot to be able to hear a lot of friendly voices.
We're glad it's over though. I'm exhausted from worrying about it and ready to put our decorations away, but I'll be leaving Michael's tree up until after January 1st.
We couldn't have survived another minute without as John Lennon would sing "A little help from our friends"
Thank you again for all your support.