Yesterday was our Family Christmas 2024. At our house we had all 10 grandchildren plus their parents, plus one boyfriend. Chris was in Nana heaven, for sure.
We enjoyed a lunch of homemade tamales and all the fixin’s for a Mexican food feast. Great stuff. Nice job, all you cooks.
After lunch we opened gifts, with a family representative handing out the gifts from their family. Everybody seemed really happy with the expressions of love.
Once all the wrapping paper and empty boxes were cleared, the younger ones disappeared into the office to play games and put together Legos. The older ones gathered around the table for that time-honored tradition of … DadDad gifts. Yes, those goofy, often insane tokens from dear old DadDad that lets them know someone was watching the past year. This year the photos from the past added a note of nostalgia to the celebration.
Next came what has become a rather new addition to the Vaughan Christmas gathering … The Reindeer games. And this year, for some reason (perhaps all the marvelously sugary desserts), everyone dove right in headfirst to every game. From building snowmen out of marshmallows, to a particularly rousing game of Hungry, Hungry Reindeer, to candy cane noses, all the way down to the crowd favorite, Frosty’s melting, these adults, teenagers, and kids all were laughing and competing (some more than others), all in great fun. That Frosty’s Melting game (That’s the one with the toys and candy wrapped in an endless twisting conglomeration of Saran Wrap, and you have to unwrap all you can before the next person in the circle rolls a double on a pair of giant dice) certainly brought out some “interesting” qualities, especially in Christi. For three or four round in a row, on her turn, she rolled a double on the first try, knocking Frosty out of AnnaGrace’s hands. Ouch, Mommy. But the competitive streak really exploded between Gavin and April. They elbowed and slapped dice, and did all they could to prevent each other from being successful. And of course the rest of us were laughing so hard we almost cried. I sure love this wild and crazy nuthouse we call The Vaughan Clan.
Proverbs 1:7 says, The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Father, bless our clan. Amen.
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