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Christmas n' COVID

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Christmas this year felt extra short but very very fun. We decorated and got our trees the day after we got back from Florida, where we spent Thanksgiving. We got a huge tree for the family room, and a smaller tree for the Long Room. I put up the Christmas villages and all of the other many, many decorations. I love the house at Christmastime. I look forward all year to decorating.  This marked the kickoff of the season, and we began watching Hallmark Christmas movies as often as we could, and doing some Christmas crafts. This year we made tiny snowmen ornaments out of pop can tabs, snowmen and girl ornaments out of wooden beads, and polymer clay matryoshka girls out of large tabs from tuna cans.  We watched all the usual Christmas specials, and made lots of cookies.  And then it was Christmas week. We started off the true holiday with a visit to Phipps with Mom and Dad to see the winter light show--always a favorite. Then we had dinner at Mineo's.   The next day, Molly and Luca ar