My holiday was Ok, but my mom got crabby in the evening. My sister joined my mom & I for dinner, which was roast beef with veggies. A tense moment was when my mom fell off a stool in the early afternoon, she wasn't hurt, but the experience jarred her. She was trying to reach a pan in the cupboards over the stove. It's too high for me to reach & I suggested she use another pan, as there are plenty to choose from, why did it need to be that particular one? I don't know why she thinks she can still climb around like that, especially considering how accident prone she was when younger.
I got some nice presents, including the latest CD by Coldplay. The gift my sister liked best was a book she's wanted for years on a fantasy artist. I found it on ebay at a much lower price than at Barnes & Noble, where she originally saw it. The book is about James Christensen, whose work you can see at his website James Christensen Scroll down to see an array of his unusual & appealing paintings.
It was chilly & windy on Christmas day and the sun was out for much of the day, leading to dramatic skies when the clouds moved in towards evening. Definitely not northern winter weather. I saw on the news that they had a snowstorm out west, too bad a tiny bit of that snow couldn't have moved east. Since then it's gotten colder & often snows at night, dusting the ground & freezing the puddles.