Christmas Day dawned clear and balmy.....the balmy part left over from a mild Santana condition that began Tuesday afternoon.......we got the warm off shore breezes flowing down down through Cajon Pass from the high desert, but not with the normal Santana intensity....maybe 8-10 mph at most.
Since we were having breakfast at my oldest son's home I waited until then to eat. We arrived at Chris and Rochelle's beautiful home around 10 am to find most of our kids already there with their families. The drive up to their home was a breeze with very few cars on the road at 9:30 in the morning.
When we arrived Chris, my son, was just putting the finishing touches on breakfast. My, son, by the way, is a great chef, and loves the culinary arts so he always makes Christmas breakfast for whomever shows up, which this particular morning included scrambled eggs, bacon, chorizo, fried potatoes and gravy. I resisted the temptation to have champagne and orange juice, and just stuck to the Keurig coffee. A number of Christmas' ago I gave Chris a Keurig coffee machine for Christmas and he loves it.....so much so that he now has one in his motorhome and has upgraded the one at home to the really high end one. Even though I had a couple of helpings of breakfast I managed to lose weight....of course that was the only meal I had all day......well.....other than a box of popcorn I shared with my daughter Sharon at the movies.
After breakfast, and the opening of the gifts we gathered around the Christmas tree to take our traditional Christmas pictures.....words are insufficient to convey how great it is to have all my kids and grand kids in one place on such a special day.
Cynthia, Christopher and Elijah.....3 of the grandkids!
Our amazing children - Christmas 2013
Chris' family: left to right - Rochelle, Cynthia, Chris, & Christopher
All the kids, grandkids and significant others
It is a little sobering for me at times to think that none of the people in the picture above would be in my life except for the fact I fell in love with The Lovely Elaine almost 43 years ago.
We did the traditional opening of the Christmas presents, spent time talking as only Hockwald's can do, and then headed home around 12:30.....we had a date with Sharon, Rod, and Meredith to meet at 3;15 pm at the Ontario Mills AMC theaters to see our annual Christmas movie, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug in 3-D. At $17 a ticket that is one of the most expensive movies I have every seen.....well, only $16 for us senior citizens.......:-P TLE and I watched the first Hobbit movie exactly one year ago Christmas in Campbellsville, KY.
Has anyone noticed that the number of trailers being shown before the actual movie you paid to see starts has like doubled? I'm pretty sure we watched a good 20 minutes of trailers before The Hobbit started. Of course we all loved the movie....loved, and hated the way this episode ended with Bilbo Baggins asking the foreboding question"What have we done?" Now I have to wait a year to find out the answer.
We got home around a quarter to 8.....TLE settled in to read, and I watched a Cary Grant/Katharine Hepburn moved called "Holiday"....one I had never seen before.....and enjoyed it thoroughly. You know, of course, there are really no bad Cary Grant/Katharine Hepburn movies......if there are I have yet to see them.
We were in bed by 11 with smiles of contentment plastered across our faces......Merry Christmas everyone....Merry Christmas!!
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