I had to work on Christmas Eve. That's the price to be paid for a new job when there has been no time to earn any vacation yet. And with this particular job, there is no automatic two-week winter holiday.
I could sure use it, though.
There weren't a lot of people at the office on Christmas Eve. Most everyone else has been at the Company for at least a year and have earned the time off, and they took advantage of it to take the day off. After all, with only one weekday between Sunday and Christmas, why come in at all?
So the office was nice and quiet. That doesn't guarantee that any work actually gets done, of course, but at least it's easier to think straight.
After work, there was a bit of last-minute Christmas shopping to do, then a bit of Christmas Eve dinner cooking. We also are supposed to go to the Christmas Eve service at church, but since the food isn't quite ready - and Deb isn't feeling well - Cheryl stays home to finish up the dinner preparations while the rest of us pack into the car and head for church.
The service is ... interesting. Personally, I'm in favor of singing all the traditional Christmas songs. In the traditional rhythms. But that isn't the way it turns out. Oh, well. It kinda works.
Then we head home to have our family Christmas Eve dinner, which was quite yummy. Followed by a traditional movie feature: The Bishop's Wife. The Cary Grant version, not the modern one. And then we close out the evening with our traditional opening-of-Grandma-Green's presents. Which are always new pajamas for the kids.
I could sure use it, though.
There weren't a lot of people at the office on Christmas Eve. Most everyone else has been at the Company for at least a year and have earned the time off, and they took advantage of it to take the day off. After all, with only one weekday between Sunday and Christmas, why come in at all?
So the office was nice and quiet. That doesn't guarantee that any work actually gets done, of course, but at least it's easier to think straight.
After work, there was a bit of last-minute Christmas shopping to do, then a bit of Christmas Eve dinner cooking. We also are supposed to go to the Christmas Eve service at church, but since the food isn't quite ready - and Deb isn't feeling well - Cheryl stays home to finish up the dinner preparations while the rest of us pack into the car and head for church.
The service is ... interesting. Personally, I'm in favor of singing all the traditional Christmas songs. In the traditional rhythms. But that isn't the way it turns out. Oh, well. It kinda works.
Then we head home to have our family Christmas Eve dinner, which was quite yummy. Followed by a traditional movie feature: The Bishop's Wife. The Cary Grant version, not the modern one. And then we close out the evening with our traditional opening-of-Grandma-Green's presents. Which are always new pajamas for the kids.
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