I love Christmas. It’s the only time of year I get to see my whole family. We did the usual thing this year – Christmas Eve at Mommom Shed’s with dinner at Westleys, then Christmas Day at Mommom Lee’s with the extended family on my mom’s side. After these two Christmases, we drive to Rehoboth and do our own relaxed family Christmas.
We exchanged gifts before dinner. Somehow Mommom Shed found out that Joanna really likes turtles (something of an open secret, I suppose). This turtle’s name is Leopold the Maybe. My mom, mommom Shed, mommom Lee, aunt Kim and aunt Yolanda all gave Joanna Christmas gifts. It was great how my whole family went out of their way to include her as we did our family Christmas things.
Here is us at Westley’s, the seafood restaurant mommom Shed likes to go to. Not pictured are my mom, sister, my two cousins Molly and Addy, my aunt and Jo. We were seated at a really long table, which wasn’t great. For large meals, round tables are best, so you can talk with everyone.
After dinner we played Scrabble (Joanna, Mommom, the team of my dad + my sister, and I). Mommom Shed is the person who taught me how to play Scrabble way back in the day, when I don’t think I could spell anything besides my own name. Since then I’ve become good – I average 300 points a game, which is 50 points below expert level. My mommom is just as good. Four player Scrabble has a completely different game dynamic than two player Scrabble because with 4 players, it is almost always in your interest to maximize your score, instead of blocking off your opponents. The two highlights of the game where when I spelt “INKY” and my dad didn’t think it was a word and challenged me. Then the team of my dad + my sister attempted to spell “FUNNER” on a triple word score. Ha. Challenged. The other “dubious” word my dad wanted to challenge before my uncle Jerry laughed him down? “BREACH”. “BREACH” was later looked up in the dictionary, and we discovered it has 10 definitions, strongly establishing its wordness.
Whew. All this Christmas is exhausting!
