Christmas with my family started off kind of strange. My parents had travel troubles. They had lots of snow the night before their flight and it was canceled. They finally caught a flight late in the day and missed their connecting flight in Atlanta. They had to stay in a seedy hotel for the night and finally made it 24 hours after the anticipated arrival.
My brother's flight out of Germany got canceled. Originally he was told that he would not be able to fly out until 5 days later, which would be after Christmas. Thankfully, a nice airport employee took pity on him and figured out how to route him with 6 layovers and told him to just get off in Dallas on a flight two days later than the original plan. His luggage was lost and was delivered several days later.
My poor mom was sick the whole time she was visiting. I took her to the urgent care twice and my father took her once. She had breathing treatment and antibiotics. She did not find out until she got back home that she had pneumonia. She just hung in there like a trooper but I know she was not able to enjoy Christmas like she wanted.
The good things around Christmas was the fun dinner at the Melting Pot together, baking cookies with my kids, snowing on Christmas Eve, making my Mom cry on Christmas morning with a sentimental gift, exercising with my new sister-in-law and the guys having a golf outing together.
Although it was not a perfect Christmas, we all really enjoyed being together.
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