Like mine ☺️

Also see my mom again.

Can't help old, rather weak bones. 😓

With all of my family, alive and well. Close to 15 people crowded into my folks little house, and noisy as hell. It was wonderful.

I get depressed this time every year.

I used to throw on a 50-lb pack and be out in the woods for a week, hike 75 miles. Since I broke my leg, I can barely walk to the end of my driveway (100 yards) without pain.

She had an enormous (at least to all of the kids) historical brick house full of unusual semi-hidden passageways (from many prior add-ons), antiques, and an additional enclosed staircase that some of the cousins could escape to to avoid a few of the others..

Always Christmas dinner-buffet style (given the number of people) and drop-in visitors from the tiny town. Big natural Christmas tree full of packages (name draw for most of them). Nice memories.

gently snoring.