Christmas 2020 is a wrap. We had our family Christmas via Zoom this afternoon. With 14 people on a Zoom call and most of us not used to it, it felt a bit chaotic. It got the job done though. Gifts were opened and gratitude and love was expressed. It was good to see everyone, if only through the screen.
Not sure what I did the rest of the day. I was up from 4:00 – 7:00 this morning and then went back to bed and was able to get two more hours of sleep. I did a couple loads of laundry and did some knitting.
We did manage to give the girls fresh linens this afternoon. It was 61 degrees and not too windy so it was a good day to get outside and get that job done. With 29 chickens spending lots of time inside the coop gets dirty quickly. It sure smelled better tonight when we went down to lock them up. I got 11 eggs today, including one fairy egg and one green shell egg. When I go to town next week I need to drop some eggs off at Tim’s and Jason’s. I’m getting close to or over a dozen eggs a day right now and they are piling up.
No plans for tomorrow. I will do more knitting, take the tree down and do some cleaning. Normal stuff around here. Jim has several things of leftovers he needs to eat up so will probably not even have to cook tomorrow night. I’ll thaw some hamburger for me and he will get let overs. What a deal!
Monday or Tuesday I will need to go to town and get the tic medication. I don’t have anything on my grocery list yet but maybe by then I will.
Feeling a bit down tonight – the normal let down after Christmas. It is so hard to not be able to hug my kids and gather them around my table. I know we did the right thing by not gathering, yet there is an emptiness inside as a result. Trusting by next year we will be able to safely gather.
Grateful for the modern technology that allowed us to “gather” this year, grateful the girls have fresh linens, and grateful for the empty space in my life right now.