Christmas 2022

We had a great this year! We hosted again and had a crew of 25 for dinner. Christmas morning was nice and quiet with just our family. The girls both got what they wanted – Sophie a pair of Air Jordan’s and Lauren a make-up table (she’s been very into make-up as of late).

We’ve been hosting Christmas for a few years now and have the routine down. Dave cooks the dinner, with his mom making the ham at her house, I get everything set up, and from there everyone shows up and enjoys themselves. The crowd only stayed until about 9 this year, so we had plenty of time to clean up and enjoy the evening.

December has been filled with recitals and holiday celebrating. I decided that this year instead of taking the kids to see the Nutcracker again, we’d try the Philly Pops Holiday Spectacular at the Kimmel Center. It did not disappoint. The music and singing were great and it was a very entertaining show. Beforehand we did the holiday brunch at the Union League which was very festive.

Sophie had her winter band concert mid-December, which ends up being her last one because she decided she doesn’t want to be in band anymore. They were impressive for a 7th grade band, and Soph was smack center playing base drum.

The following weekend were two holiday concerts for the Philadelphia Girls Choir – one in a performing arts center in New Jersey and the other at Temple Performing Arts Center. As always, the girls were amazingly impressive. I’m continually blow away by how professional this choir sounds.

And finally we got together with the college friends at a Christmas party at Justin and Steve’s house. It was great to connect with everyone again. I hadn’t seen Erin in over a year, and Vahid even longer.