Christmas Traditions and Interruptions

Jason loves to work on a puzzle in December with a Christmas movie playing in the background. (Which, this year, turned out to be "Elf" about 1,001 times, but whatever makes him happy.) We started on a Rudolph puzzle, but switched mid-December to this Charlie Brown puzzle because I saw it online and just had to have it for my sister.

Thanks to some extra effort by our entire team, we were able to finish the puzzle by Christmas Eve. We were aided in this quest by the fact that our fearless leader, Jason, was stricken with 9 kidney stones and unable to go to work for several days. We would GLADLY have taken a little extra time to finish the puzzle had it meant fewer stones for Jason. But unfortunately, no one offered us such a trade. Sometimes you have to play the cards you're dealt. And I think Charlie Brown would agree with me on that.

We also have a tradition of going to see a Christmas play as a family. This year's play was "Juanito Bandito's Christmas Carol." I missed the Christmas play last year due to some health problems, and Jason wasn't able to go this year because of kidney stones. So maybe next year we can have a December that is free of ER visits and where we are all actually able to go to the Christmas play. Or... maybe not. But an ER-free December is definitely a tradition I'd like to shoot for going forward.

With Dahlia's favorite character, Grizelda, after the show.