Christmas is back! After essentially being cancelled last year, we were back in action this year. There was a slightly smaller crowd this year – all vaxxed and tested ahead of time – but we were all together!

Christmas morning came early – 3AM to be precise. We told the girls they couldn’t wake us up until 6AM, so they entertained themselves for three hours with stuff from their stockings. I can’t believe they woke up that early – or that there was not a huge crash that afternoon, which I really thought would happen.

When the girls came downstairs they both found exactly what they asked for under the tree.

After the morning of present opening and breakfast we cleaned up and prepped for the crowd coming later that day.

The Sharps, The Boyles, Don, Zoe and Maddie came from Dave’s side of his family, and Dan and family and Joan came from my side.

As tradition goes, we performed a Sharp Family concert before dinner. Sophie played Carol of the Bells and Lauren did Jingle Bells. Accompanists were Kathy on clarinet, Dave on trombone, me on violin, and for Jingle Bells, Kish and Ash joined in with bells.

Later that evening my parents, Becky and Ari came up – just in time for dessert. It was a lovely evening, mostly because we all were able to be together again!