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Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Number7 on December 24, 2023, 11:05:01 AM
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So… what is everybody for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day?
Church tonight then we’re hosting about a dozen folks with no family to be with. My poor bride has been cooking and baking all week. Fortunately she has a girlfriend helping this year.
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My mother is in the final stages of heart failure and they are telling us she could go any time, so everybody is hoping and praying she doesn’t die until after Christmas. Last week we met with the funeral home by WebEx to plan and prepay everything so that’s out of the way and will make everything easier when the time comes. The funeral home said we can postpone the service until January if she does die this week. That will make it a lot easier on those of us who have to travel.
Before she got this bad I had ordered a big Christmas dinner meal kit so the fridge is packed with food and I have a lot of work to do. Another reason I don’t want to travel this week. It serves four and there is just Mark and me so I’m making it today for Christmas Eve and we’ll have it again tomorrow. Here’s the menu:
Prime rib roast, with an jus and horseradish sauce
Roasted Brussels sprouts and root vegetables
Cheddar and Gruyère creamed spinach
Yukon gold mashed potatoes
Rosemary, Gruyère and black pepper biscuits
Chocolate lava cakes with cherry-orange compote
Mom is hardly eating anything, doesn’t understand much of what’s going on, and is very stressed by visitors and unusual activity so the sisters up there aren’t planning anything to celebrate Christmas. I sent her her favorite nutrolls early, before she got this bad so she was able to enjoy her Christmas present from me.
It’s a sad and stressful time for everyone but I’m grateful for my husband and our ability to enjoy the holiday together. Not looking forward to the new year and all the estate settling. But mom lived a long and very good life, almost 97 years.
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So sorry about your mother, Rush.
"Death may deprive us of the wonder of this existence, but it can never erase the triumph of our having existed, whether for one year or for one hour."
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Oh Rush, so sorry to hear this. It's never a good time, but the Christmas season makes it worse.
My wife and I just attended a funeral service last week. The son-in-law of friends at church passed suddenly a week ago Thursday, had an enlarged heart and did not know it.
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Christmas will be just me and my wife this year. We did spend a few hours today at my youngest son's house today and exchange presents. We chose not to spend Christmas day with them, with our daughter-in-laws cancer still in play and not knowing how much time she may have left, we didn't want to intrude on family time.
I do pray every day that a miracle will save her.
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We all join together in praying your mother and your Christmas
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We all join together in praying your mother and your Christmas
Same here. Please take care.
Nutcracker this afternoon, then midnight mass. Sleeting in, and then a nice quiet Christmas.
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Oh Rush, so sorry to hear this. It's never a good time, but the Christmas season makes it worse.
My wife and I just attended a funeral service last week. The son-in-law of friends at church passed suddenly a week ago Thursday, had an enlarged heart and did not know it.
Our SIL’s father just passed suddenly also. We didn’t go, they’re back east, but it was shocking to everyone. He was healthy and only 73 but had minor surgery on his foot and threw a clot after the surgery. Sudden deaths are much worse. My mom is ready to go, she gets zero enjoyment out of life at this point.
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We all join together in praying your mother and your Christmas
Thank you, all of you.
I’m wiped. Cooking that dinner was a lot of work and cleaning up afterwards even worse. But it was delicious.
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Same here. Please take care.
Nutcracker this afternoon, then midnight mass. Sleeting in, and then a nice quiet Christmas.
Sleeting in? Or sleeping in? ;D
I hope to sleep in tomorrow too. The only Christmas gifts we have to open are boxes of John Kelly Chocolate we got for each other. The bourbon truffles…
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Thinking of you all, and wishing you the best possible Christmas under all the circumstances. You go for years being able to plan things and not have much trauma and then it starts … health, parents, family, many unknowns, and now of course the loss of trust in institutions, and the threat of global collapse. I try to still find joy and be grateful wherever I can. I’m sure you do too, Rush.
We just sold my husband’s mother’s house which is a huge relief as it is three hours away and was unoccupied. She is 97 in nursing care. My mother is 96 and thankfully quite well, now in assisted living. We are slowly emptying her house too. We'll gather here tomorrow with some family and friends for prime rib. We enjoyed a wonderful, NORMAL visit tonight with our daughter. The last time she entered our home was in 2019. As you may recall, she is a doctor and wanted nothing to do with us because we decided not get the jab. Thankfully that seems to be healing.
Best to you all, and thank you for our PilotSpin community.
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Just the wife and I for this evening and Christmas day. Had a meal of appetizers with some wine this evening. Then did the Sunday crossword puzzle together (I never bothered with crossword puzzles prior to getting married but my wife liked to do them. One day after asking me for some help on clues that required some technical knowledge I started kibbitzing and eventually we started doing them together.)
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Just the wife and I for this evening and Christmas day. Had a meal of appetizers with some wine this evening. Then did the Sunday crossword puzzle together (I never bothered with crossword puzzles prior to getting married but my wife liked to do them. One day after asking me for some help on clues that required some technical knowledge I started kibbitzing and eventually we started doing them together.)
Speaking of puzzles, I’m obsessed with this one:
https://puzzlemadness.co.uk/greaterthansudoku/easy/2023/1/17
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Thinking of you all, and wishing you the best possible Christmas under all the circumstances. You go for years being able to plan things and not have much trauma and then it starts … health, parents, family, many unknowns, and now of course the loss of trust in institutions, and the threat of global collapse. I try to still find joy and be grateful wherever I can. I’m sure you do too, Rush.
We just sold my husband’s mother’s house which is a huge relief as it is three hours away and was unoccupied. She is 97 in nursing care. My mother is 96 and thankfully quite well, now in assisted living. We are slowly emptying her house too. We'll gather here tomorrow with some family and friends for prime rib. We enjoyed a wonderful, NORMAL visit tonight with our daughter. The last time she entered our home was in 2019. As you may recall, she is a doctor and wanted nothing to do with us because we decided not get the jab. Thankfully that seems to be healing.
Best to you all, and thank you for our PilotSpin community.
You hit everything that’s on my mind. I’m worried about this country and the entire world. And cleaning out and selling the house after mom dies is a looming nightmare. But I still try to focus on the positive, at least I don’t live in the Mideast.
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You hit everything that’s on my mind. I’m worried about this country and the entire world. And cleaning out and selling the house after mom dies is a looming nightmare. But I still try to focus on the positive, at least I don’t live in the Mideast.
Except the Mideast appears to be coming to you.
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Speaking of puzzles, I’m obsessed with this one:
https://puzzlemadness.co.uk/greaterthansudoku/easy/2023/1/17 (https://puzzlemadness.co.uk/greaterthansudoku/easy/2023/1/17)
That is evil and makes my head hurt.
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Merry Christmas Everyone
Rush sorry for what you’re going through, but she lived a long life. My dad was 93 when he passed and he was like your mom, ready to go.
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That is evil and makes my head hurt.
And that’s the easy mode! I first tried medium and couldn’t solve it, so had to downgrade. It’s getting better.
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Merry Christmas Everyone
Rush sorry for what you’re going through, but she lived a long life. My dad was 93 when he passed and he was like your mom, ready to go.
Yes, it’s weird. By that age in some ways you’ve already grieved because you’ve been expecting it, and in mom’s case her mind is mostly gone, but it’s still your parent and kind of like the last thing between you and your own death. Once she dies okay now I’m on deck. 😬
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Except the Mideast appears to be coming to you.
I’m going to stay tucked into this little corner of Texas where we don’t have terrorists. Unless they nuke Houston or Galveston or something. And I don’t discount suitcase nukes.
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I’m going to stay tucked into this little corner of Texas where we don’t have terrorists. Unless they nuke Houston or Galveston or something. And I don’t discount suitcase nukes.
We've already been informed that terrorist and sleeper cells don't exist inside our borders, so no fear...... ;)
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I’m going to stay tucked into this little corner of Texas where we don’t have terrorists. Unless they nuke Houston or Galveston or something. And I don’t discount suitcase nukes.
Merry Christmas. Seems like a lot of people are having med/family issues. My wife had some cancerous looking tissue removed for biopsy last week. 2 weeks ago her mother had her leg amputated, my mom at the same time had to get polyps removed and other cancer biopsies. And I had my own prostate scare last month and had to get the finger up the rear and get blood work (all clear here). When it rains it pours!
Anyways, I don't think Biden will let his friends nuke Houston. The white population is in the minority and it seems Houston is voting blue now. He's not going to wipe out over 1 million of his voters.
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First Christmas for the wife and I without our daughter. She went with the fiance to visit the soon to be in-laws…
Do have a number of friends coming over for dinner so that will be nice.
Merry Christmas to everyone.
-Dan
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First Christmas for the wife and I without our daughter. She went with the fiance to visit the soon to be in-laws…
Do have a number of friends coming over for dinner so that will be nice.
Merry Christmas to everyone.
-Dan
Yes it is strange when the kids stop coming home for Christmas. It’s not the same just the two of us. But it’s a whole lot less work. We used to host the extended family for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I’d get out the good china and the actual silver silverware which I had to polish of course, and feed 14 people. I miss the people but not the work.
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We're now past the point of full family Christmas celebrations. We spent time with the local son and his family for a few hours yesterday. No meal with them, just time and present exchange. With the unknown of our DIL's cancer we did not want to take away from their family time on Christmas Day.
The group up in NC have their own thing on Christmas day. Grand son is working for the Carolina Panthers and had to work today. They will go out for Chinese for dinner.
We stopped on the way home last night and had Chinese for dinner.
Today for us was our tradition of Pepperidge Farm tunrovers for breakfast and then we went to see Boys in the Boat at the theater and we gave a small ham that we will heat up for dinner. I recommend the movie.
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We're now past the point of full family Christmas celebrations. We spent time with the local son and his family for a few hours yesterday. No meal with them, just time and present exchange. With the unknown of our DIL's cancer we did not want to take away from their family time on Christmas Day.
The group up in NC have their own thing on Christmas day. Grand son is working for the Carolina Panthers and had to work today. They will go out for Chinese for dinner.
We stopped on the way home last night and had Chinese for dinner.
Today for us was our tradition of Pepperidge Farm tunrovers for breakfast and then we went to see Boys in the Boat at the theater and we gave a small ham that we will heat up for dinner. I recommend the movie.
Chinese on Christmas Day, lol. A Christmas Story. :)
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