Merry Christmas!

I hope that everyone who celebrates this holiday has a wonderful time with family and friends, whether your celebrations are big and raucous, small peaceful and reverent, or somewhere in between. For those of you of different faiths: may the proverbial Chinese restaurants and movie theaters be as empty as they are rumored to be, enjoy (I’m kinda jealous actually).

Here we balance our major end-of-year holidays (Thanksgiving and Christmas) between Jen’s family and my own, alternating every other year. There was one year, pre-babies mind you, that we tried to please everyone and ended up eating three Thanksgiving meals over the course of just a couple of days. Not wise. This year the turkey was had with the extended Lutz clan here on the farm so that means that today after having our little morning ritual with the boys, we are headed over to the mighty metropolis of East Barnard, VT (see if you can find it on a map) to hang with Jen’s family. Jen’s maternal grandparents are alive and well (and cooking) so it’s always a treat to hit the old family homestead. To give you some tiny notion of what an amazing person her grandfather Floyd is consider the fact that his latest CDL that he just renewed for delivering lumber from the family saw mill will expire…when he’s 94. May we all be so lucky. Merry Christmas!