Christmas is this Sunday… and I’ll be driving up that morning to spend Christmas Day and a couple of days afterward with my parents. Every year, our entire immediate family gathers together at the home of my brother Matt and sis-in-law Suzanne for Thanksgiving. But for Christmas, Matt and Suzanne spend the holiday with her parents and family. And so it’s just my folks and me for Christmas. But that’s fine… though I wish my brother and SIL could be there, I still enjoy spending time with my folks. Over the years, our observance of the holiday has become more and more… casual, I guess you could say– and so it’ll be a wonderful, restful break from the grind of work.

I hope everyone out there has the merriest of holidays, and I’ll see you on the other side…!

This is Entry 176.

Mike