Merry Christmas everyone!

            Merry Christmas everyone! I (Drew) will be your blogger for tonight, and I have news to bring of a very uneventful Christmas day, partly, because we slept through quite a bit of it.  We weren’t moving until eleven this morning. And that was only so that we could watch our favorite sports analyst, Charles Barkley for the opening day of the NBA.  It seems as though I’m the only one who’s too excited about that.  But you aren’t here to read about our interests and activities, so on to the important stuff.

            We were over at Mom’s room by 12:00, and she was laughing often.  She didn’t talk too often, but I thought that she was enunciating much more clearly today than she was yesterday.  My dad didn’t notice as much improvement, but I’m the young one with all my hearing left. 

We left around 1:30 for lunch in the cafeteria, finished quickly and went back to Mom’s room, the next couple hours were when things got very uneventful.  We sat there for a long time while Dad just held her hands.  She laughed when we told her jokes, and she murmured as she has done recently.  At one point, we were on the phone with Ed Roden and he told us all Merry Christmas, and I’m sure I heard Mom mutter back “Merry Christmas”.

Instances like this show me that she’s improving from day to day, and I’m very excited for her next treatment, because it seems like they’re really helping.  I left Mom’s room at four to come back to the room, and Dad stayed until six.  Sounds like it continued to be quiet in there. 

At 6:30, we set out to find food, and this proved to be a very difficult task.  We had to settle for Papa John’s for Christmas dinner.  Barbeque chicken pizza was not very traditional, but tasty nonetheless.  Plus we weren’t exactly following a classy trend for dinner, as some of you noticed in the blog last night. 

Drew eating Christmas Dinner at the Elf's Table

Now we’re in the hotel room, watching the Christmas night football game, and that makes us feel a little better, because now we know that 80,000+ Green Bay fans are having beer and hot dogs for dinner.

We’re planning on returning to Mom’s room soon, and we will report on those details tomorrow, but I’m sure they will be good ones.

Thank you once again to all those that have helped us through the holiday season, we very much appreciate it.  It hasn’t exactly been our typical Christmas, but that has helped us to focus on the true reason for the season.  We hope that you all had a great Christmas and that you all got the gifts you asked Santa for! Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.