Christmas at my mom's 2024

Daniel Bigelow

Dec 23, 2023 — 2 min read

Last night we slept over at my mom's house. We all were exhausted and went to bed pretty early. We had even brought some games over to play and never got to them.

In the morning we woke up and had breakfast, then the kids all got up and we opened stockings. It's always been a big debate in that family circle about if we should do my mom should put them together, but it has always meant a lot to me to open them from her.

Opening presents is always fun, and the kids did really well and were appreciative. I think they loved the gift from the kids to them. The kids loved giving them to them as well. I have noticed that Warren really loved people opening his gifts.

We hung out all day till after dinner. The kids played and we chatted upstairs. Then we headed to Sharon's for the night.

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