During the holidays, thoughts of work become adrift in the fluff of snow, the glimmer of lights, and the laughter of loved ones. Here are a few things we got up to when the world slowed down and sped up all at once as the decade tocked its final ticks.
Jason and I celebrated Christmas with both our families via dinners on different days. Many presents were given and opened. I like the giving part.
I created a crossword puzzle our nieces and nephews had to solve to determine what outing they were receiving as their gift from Jason and me. We clotted the plot by throwing in a gift card for the quickest solver. Amongst the over a dozen excursion alternatives deciphered, the kids chose to go tubing at Soldier Hollow. Soldier Hollow has Utah’s longest sledding lanes at 1,200 feet, humming music, and a people hauler for the languid. Seventeen family members revealed their inner tubularness that afternoon. We bumped down those lengthy chutes in blobs five people wide while flakes tickled our faces on their unhurried drift to the earth.
Jason and I attended Evermore’s New Year’s Eve bash with a friend and then caught up with more friends at the Hughes family’s countdown to 2020. We dressed like it was 1920 and danced like it was 1820 as we welcomed 2020 on New Year’s Day at Plumfield, a historic building that will begin a new life as a reception center later this year. Thanks, various hosts and hostesses, for the many celebratory shindigs!
Much of the rest of our holiday time was jammed with the usual fillers, as in playing games with both sides of the family, going to lunch with family members, going to movies with family members, going to movies without family members, inviting old friends over for games, and taking grandparents out to dinner. We sprinkled all that with some powder as we boarded on the slopes and strolled through Luminaria, an adorned winter landscape.
In conclusion, our holidays were both relaxing and hectic, as they tend to be for most. They were stuffed with family, strewn with friends, decorated with movies, wrapped with powder, frosted with games, and ornamented with presents. Not a bad ending to a notable decade.