Wednesday, December 25, 2024

     I am given a photo of three intense attractive young adults.  Who are these people? Then with my glasses on, I see they were my own delightful energetic children from 40 years ago.   I put on my new baseball cap with the message, HARD TO KILL. This is my fourth bout of cancer and I am alive and kicking.   Christmas eve dinner with family is wonderful. How lucky I am to be included.

     Cold morning, heater is on. But yesterday was warm outside. I check facebook to see the damage from the huge waves pounding our shore.

     Eight of us sit around the table (yes I cleared the table) eating our traditional Mexican food.  My mother grew up in an immigrant Italian family in a mining town in Arizona. Beans and tortillas became our family’s Italian food.

     I gave international detective novel to each family member. One by one they opened their gift and said what country was represented. I suspect, maybe some of the paper books will be read. We talk about reading paper books as compared to reading screens. Lot of light hearted banter. We did not talk about politics or illnesses.