Posted on 12/24/2022 3:38:19 PM PST by Skooz
Besides my goofy rescue greyhound, I’ll be solo this Christmas Eve. All is well. Had some solid family time with my kids last night, and will be with family tomorrow.
But, for now, I’m enjoying a salted caramel latte, basking in the glow of the Christmas tree lights and about to plug George Bailey and company into the old Blu-ray player.
Anyone else spending this Christmas Eve alone?
Mt kitties would climb up in my tree and my lights would fall off.
☺️ They are good and paired with their mac and cheese!
Just the wife, the fire, the cuddly cats, Nat King Cole and our memories.
The kids promise to visit a few days starting tomorrow. Our son just got a long overdue much well earned and deserved promotion. In a year of not much good but being alive and well and making ends more than meet it gives good reason for celebration so we will.😊😊. Ive busted a button or two that he has gotten what he earned by perserverance, guts, bravery in the face of adversity, honesty, uncompromising principles, integrity, excellence, humility and remarkable intelligence and care for others. A remarkable officer and man. He will protect a nation that no longer merits that because he said he would.
Dad was King of Christmas at our place and Momma his faithful helper. Both passed just after their last Christmas. Daddy 17 years ago and Momma 3 now. It has put an eternal damper on my Christmas spirit hard to overcome. Christmas is for children and the forever young at heart like Daddy. We have none of these any longer at the farm and it is sad. Unshakeably sad. Unfortunately these are my memories of Christmas no matter what else I try to make of it.
My wife has cooked and cleaned since Thanksgiving and weeks before that so tomorrow we will enjoy a wonderful meal, open presents, shoot a few clays probably, see a bit of the eternal land, visit some and spend a few days together again.
My sister and I visited our brother and his family in October.
“KiKi’s Delivery Service” for my niece(8 years old) and some “Pigeon” books for my nephew(4 years old). My brother is a late in life father.
So this year I here by myself. I am going to try to find a spot at the local Waffle House for a hamburger and hashbrowns for “Christmas Dinner”. However, on Sunday they are always crowded because some kind of secret cult meets there.
You have me laughing. Those cats in the tree are what mine used to do.
I’m spending tonight alone. Tommorrow I go to friends for breakfast with friends , then dinner with other friends.
this Christmas has been lonely. My beloved doggie, Zevi,
crossed the Rainbow Bridge the day after Thanksgiving. She was 12 years old. I adopted her when she was a year old. She was a mixed breed close to a Belgian Tervuren.
We had 11 wonderful years together. I live alone and she was the best “ partner “ I could have ever had. I know Zevi is still with me in spirit.
She was a conservative who campaigned for Trump and chased “Jhihhadi” squirrels in the woods.
My friends who are pet people were very supportive. I am better now. I have placed an application now to Husky Haven of Florida to adopt a Husky , a fur person to share my life and home with.
I maybe alone, but I love to cook, ham, may leave some out for the local cats too. I will talk to my adult kids and their mother and my aunt and her family later..
Alone tonight with only good memories of my husband who passed away this past February. We shared 32 Christmas Eves together and I miss him terribly tonight. Family is coming here Christmas Day and I hope it will help ease the constant heartache of his absence.
Unfortunately, my son & D-i-l have alienated me for the last 17 months. This means I do not get to see my three grandchildren 12, 11, 8.
I’m alone tonight and tomorrow. Not married. It’s the way things are right now.
I’m about to go by and drop off some gifts at the front door and maybe sing a Christmas carol to them from the sidewalk. The then tomorrow I’ll make to more drop offs during the morning and afternoon sometime.
This after 11 years of close contact, never missing a birthday, holiday, anything. D-i-L suddenly took a severe disliking to me in July of ‘21.
I suspect that if she sees me dropping gifts off, she will come out of the house screaming. I wear a bodycam to protect myself. It’s my grandkids that count. Yes, I’ve tried everything. No, my son isn’t of any use. No, I didn’t do anything to earn this “shunning” or “banning” except that I am a man who wouldn’t put up with her borderline disorder and bullying.
This is what having a mentally ill D-i-L is like.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!! :)
So sorry.
So glad you’ll be welcoming a talking dog.
Just returned from a short get-together. Merry Christmas, y’all!
Sent that photo to my brother as he has nine housecats! ...
So very sorry. Yes. Wear the body cam. People are half crazed now.
I am.
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