Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all! I thank all of you who have continued to follow and respond through this horrible year. I am really looking forward to seeing the tail end of 2018!
We've pretty much settled in at my parents' house and everyone seems to be adjusting fairly well. There are always challenges in moving and definitely in moving in with parents/grandparents with the differences in the way everyone does things. I think my parents anticipated us being around most of the time and while I did tell them this wasn't the case - between school, jobs, training, friends and boyfriend/girlfriend the kids are rarely home. I think that part is less work for them than they expected, and aside from my dad always wondering where everyone is and when they'll be home, I don't think their day to day lives are majorly impacted. Which was how i anted it. I didn't want our moving in to completely destroy their normally peaceful days. They also seem to enjoy their grand-dogs quite a bit. They carry on conversations with them all day. The beagle is completely attached to both of my parents and the minute one of them sits down she is immediately in whoever's lap is available.
We're keeping quite a few of our old traditions. I had planned to try to make things a little different this year but the kids seem to want things to stay the same, so aside from the change in location, we're doing our usual Christmas Eve - finger foods, finishing wrapping and watching White Christmas. I'm attempting to make DH's honey garlic ribs for tonight. I've never made them but watched him enough that I can hopefully pull it off. I wasn't going to but DD insisted it wouldn't be Christmas Eve without them. Tomorrow I'm making the same bacon and egg casserole and baked pecan french toast I make every year. Again - insisted upon. We will go visit the cemetery after breakfast, and then have our traditional Christmas dinner. So pretty much everything as we've always done but without DH. I am just hoping to get through it.
The conditions on the house sale were removed about two weeks ago and it will close at the end of February. The final furniture pieces will be removed for auction on Dec 27. Some were left in the home for staging. Everything else has been removed now. So, a few more weeks and the last part of our home together will be finished. Bittersweet, I guess. I will be glad to have it finalised but also sad. I will also not miss nosy goof. Captain Entitled used our driveway for his Christmas party last week. He's just the kind who'd slip and fall in our driveway while using it without permission and then sue me. There was a whole issue he had with DH about using our driveway so I'm sure he was just gleefully telling his guests to park there since we've moved out. I'f I'd been home and caught him I'd have made him move them.