Sounds like you made a wonderful Christmas tradition for the kids. Seriously, my kid is over the moon she gets to do Christmas twice. She has been bragging for years about that.

I know it’s never what you envision when you marry and have children, but you made the best of it. It’s still great, just different

Oh yeah, you live in my lovely home state! We got that snow on Christmas Eve . Little over an inch, it looked nice. I got hiking poles for Christmas and will be going any chance I get.

A Christmas hike sounds like fun. If you ever need a hiking buddy, HMU, lol.