We celebrated New Year's Eve at our home with cousin Doug's family. We feasted on Raclette, cheeseball, and had a chocolate fountain with everything yummy to drizzle with warm chocolate. The games were a blast too! We played Werewolf, ping pong, and watched videos of New York's Time Square with the dropping of the legendary ball. The Jentzsch's didn't leave until almost 3:00am because we were having such a great time. It was the perfect close of the 2020 year.
Over Christmas break, we spent hours playing Ticket To Ride Europe (and having Alyssa cream us in almost every game), hot tubbing in the snow and cold, went to watch Wonder Woman 1984 then out to Slab Pizza, watching Christmas movies galore, and simply spending time together as a family. It has been an incredible blessing to spend so much time together!
Our Christmas Scavenger Hunt
1. Twas the morning of Christmas
When all through the house
Were four Lindsay kids screeching
Far louder than a mouse!
2. When out on the deck
There rose such a clatter!
Had Jolly St Nick
fallen off of his ladder?
3. Running back to the house
Four Lindsay kids flew like a flash!
But realized rather quickly
their next clue was in Dash!
4. But what to their wondering eyes did appear:
2 carefully painted miniature reindeer!
5. With a little old driver
so lively and quick,
The 4 Lindsay kids knew in their house
it was the only St. Nick!
6. To find their final Santa gift, the 4 kids needed to say,
What they were most grateful for on Christmas day!
Their mother and father were waiting to hear,
4 beautiful voices expressing gratitude and cheer
7. Deep in the Lindsay home where the cold items lay
You will find a box wrapped in holiday paper, not clay.
Please retrieve it quickly and bring it to dad
Who holds the last clue----aren’t you all so glad?
We kicked off the day with breakfast, a brisk walk down by the Manila pond, and preparations for the evening. Around 5:00pm, Grandma Barbie and Poppie came by with our presents. It was great to visit with them, especially since the kids had been begging them to come and spend Christmas with us.
Our fondue/sushi dinner was a huge hit! We had both cheese and meat fondue. In fact, we were so full from the two, we never made it to the chocolate fondue (saving it for Christmas day or Sunday). From there, we watched some Christmas videos from the Hatch family back in 1984-1994 and then watched our own family in 2005, 2007, and 2010. The kids loved it!
Around 7:30pm, we got on a zoom call with the Dave/Barbara Lindsay family so grandma could see us open our gifts. The PJs were amazing (as always) and the other gifts were on point!
For the spiritual part of our evening, we watched the video on the birth of Christ and shared our feelings about Jesus.
Last on the agenda was opening sibling gifts and then off to the hot tub as a family! It was a cold night but we laughed, talked, and soaked for about 45 minutes as a family while enjoying the star-lit sky and heat of the tub.
Tomorrow is Christmas!
