Happy holidays, friends!
We spent Christmas with my in-laws and by golly we were determined it was going to go well. And it did, but only because we're all made of pure awesomeness and rose to the occasion.
Adding to the normal mix of Adored Wife's physical infirmities and Social Hurricane's anxiety issues and Graphics Magician's thirteen-year-old annoyingness was my mother-in-law's sadly worsening memory issues. It puts a lot more of a burden on my father-in-law, because Mom always did most of the organizing and planning for this sort of thing, and now she's simply not able any more. We could of course have scaled back, but he'd decided that no, we were going to try to do all the family stuff we'd always done. And it was fun but he was pretty worn out at the end of it and, much as he loves us all, I think he was about ready for us to leave when we did.
Adored Wife loves to cook and so she stepped up and took care of a lot of that end of things. The way her nerve trouble works is that she can be active for a while, then go lie down for a while, then go be active for a little while longer and so forth. Mostly she was up and down for the whole day. Social Hurricane's sleep schedule was off which didn't help the anxiety issues, and Graphics Magician was in rare form with his excessive cleverness, so the two of them were getting on each other's nerves a little. But we kept them both distracted pretty well.
Basement Artist had insomnia Christmas Eve, but that's okay because there was coffee. We had lots of food and lots of presents, and we actually did have a lot of fun and laughter together. But it took some concentrated amazingness on our parts to pull it off.
Hope all's well out there, friends, and God bless.
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