This would be almost 5 decades of Christmas as celebrated last night in Ellendale ND. They are not all the same. They are always fun. Interesting. Full of personalities.
Last night was no different. A few observations.
This was the first Christmas for the new Mrs Sam. It's always tough for wives or husbands who show up at these deals for the first time.
People come from a very long way. Jenny was there from Scottsdale AZ. Long way.
Lots of carols sung ending with the friendly beast song. Much food eaten. Way more presents changing hands than makes any sense at all.
What made this fun was all the cousins playing games. good games. Fun games. It was fun to see them all siting around.
Overall there were 26 of us there.
I know things will change. Life does that. We have maintained this for almost 50 years just like this. It's quite amazing. Someday it will all end.
That will be a shock to the system. To me too.
But Christmas never changes in our hearts and memories are more than pictures on a flash card.
Merry Christmas.
PS: One Christmas eve in 1968 we all sat around the TV and watched and listened as the Astronauts from Apollo 8 read from the first Chapter of Genesis from the orbit of the moon in space. I remember it well.
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