Skipping Christmas

I just realized that I said, "Christmas, coming soon,"  and then I skipped it.

Well, we didn't really skip it but I tried really hard to make it happen.  In spite of my efforts to alter tradition we had a lovely Christmas eve dinner and the annual reading of a new Christmas story.  Last year our granddaughter asked if she could read the story, surprised, we said, "Yes."   She amazed us with her reading skills so we asked her to be the reader again this year.  We were not disappointed.  We have another granddaughter that lives far away and she is a great reader too.  We have to listen to her read over the phone :-)   Next year we will have another reader so we will be in good shape.  We'll just have to buy more stories. We will also have to plan to stay home for Christmas or we will miss the stories.

I remembered that I skipped Christmas when I received notification  of our book club choice this week.  My husband and I did not put as much effort into skipping Christmas this year as Luther and his wife but our plans were foiled just the same.  So, we made some adjustments and still had a wonderful Christmas, no skipping and all.