My Christmas was much quieter than yours. I still haven't started my car or tried to get out of my driveway. I intend to do that this afternoon.
My neighbor M was staying home for Christmas and invited me over. Then a couple with an 11 year old son that is straight across from me talked with M and asked about bringing their food over to join us so the five of us had, (we called it), a neighborhood Christmas.
It worked out pretty well. I hadn't done any decorating this year and maybe in a way I was trying to put Christmas in the back of my mind. When I went to M's and her house was so nicely decorated I did feel sad about D not being with me. But at least it didn't last all day and we had a nice time together; joked about we were standing in our Christmas gifts to ourselves this year with our new houses.
At the end we took turns posing for pictures of our first Christmas in our new houses and snowed in!
Dreading going back to work tomorrow, especially as I haven't got the car out yet!
Hope things work out well for you and D.
Pam
"We must be willing to let go of the life we had planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us"
