5:45am return flight, Christmas morning – going HOME.
Blessed with THREE celebrations this year, holiday season ended at Ash & Tom’s Colorado home. Ham, $30 mac n cheese (sooooo much CHEESE), homemade desserts x2 – pie AND cheesecake 🍴🥧
Gift giving highlights? Garden gnomes, Tom’s beer toting tie & a new Chromebook for Ash.
Someone’s taking notes next semester – first class toward a possible Master’s degree. She’s crazy smart – but y’all know it’s a tough balancing act working full-time, while saving the world one homeless pet at a time. Fingers crossed. Not easy wearing a cape, gal’s a SUPER HERO.
Merry Christmas from snowy Colorado.
Wishing ALL good health, much laughter & more adventure in 2019 🙂
“The closest thing to heaven on this planet anywhere, is a quiet Christmas morning in the Colorado snow.”
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- Christmas Ro
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- CHEESY overload
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- gnome MASSACRE
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- double the forks — YUM!
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- ole man Jo
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- college PREP 🎓
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- bro’s IRON WAREHOUSE
Dancing with the Stars’ Maks Chmerkovskiy
9 years in Connecticut, never been to Coventry. Certainly never seen divine Miss M’s new digs.
*BIG NEWS* Michaela & Eli closed on their FIRST HOME post-Thanksgiving. Busy time o’ year. Move, unpack, design, decorate. Housewarming party TWELVE days later. Whaaaat? Only Michaela could pull off that kinda impossibility. Living room rug arrived morning of their party. Timing!
Wood floors throughout. Downstairs Master, two bedrooms upstairs, full basement, comfortable kitchen & a laundry room. Outdoors? Acre+ of TREES & a BRAND NEW PORCH. Homing together. Eli’s gas grill, Michaela’s patio furniture (umbrella/table/chairs). Summer invite please 😊
Close 5-minute drive up Riley Mountain Road, holiday’d at Jill & David’s country home. Their second year in Coventry – lovely bi-level, ROCK fireplace, outdoor pergola, whole lotta natural wood.
M designed the PERFECT room for Dave – a Disney World EXPLOSION. All his favs accessible & on display. Permanent SMILE, surrounded/walled with LOVE. So happy lil’ man. Heart soar.
Downstairs, holiday dinner/all the fixin’s. Spiraled ham, deviled eggs, Grandma Paralee’s dressing recipe, M’s sweet potato casserole. Folks, THIS is why I marathon. Much food in my belly. LOL>
Post-meal X-Mas exchange. Disney collectibles/new computer for Dave, clothes/purses/shoes for Michaela. Jill & I also gifted this holiday: filtration-strawed Brita bottle (him), sea turtle lamp (her).
FULL MOON on the Mass Pike, nite-finished with generational activities. M took Sis’ T-rex purse for drinks while Papa black-n-white nestled to ‘The Bishop’s Wife’. 2 States down, one Christmas to go 🎄
M’s new digs
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- Coventry CT
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- M’s first HOME
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- Michaela & Eli
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- holidaying together
Christmas in Connecticut
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- Jill & David’s home
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- holiday READY
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- ROCK fireplace
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- gifting OVERLOAD
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- outdoor PERGOLA
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- Dave-Land (Disney CT)
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- permanent SMILE
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- designed/decorated by M
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- Christmas DINNER
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- Disney’s Queen of Hearts
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- an arm FULL
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- Marvel gift BONANZA
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- NatGeo lamp
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- purse from Sis
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- Merry Christmas David 🎅
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- X-Mas Eve Eve
Pearl Street, Boulder
Presents wrapped, pets groomed, medals hung/bibs put away. holiday Ready.
LOVE LOVE Christmas week. Multiple dinners out & nothing more – week to kick back, just take it all in. Lights on Pearl Street, Christmas cards & Sis’ annual publication (everyone awaits/big family buzz…did I make the newsletter?) Have watched her kids GROW. Ballet, soccer. Braces, dog Daisy. Family vacations. Proms, College. LOVE LOVE the Greco Family newsletter…a treasured holiday tradition 🎄
Holiday’ng both coasts this gifting season, Saturday begins my first Christmas Trifecta – THREE states, THREE holiday dinners: New Hampshire, Connecticut & Colorado. But only once [Ash’s house] will I wear bro’s gifted Yeti costume. LOL> #luckyinlife
Happy Christmas friends.
Laugh, smile. Breathe, get quiet. Enjoy the solstice Cold Moon ❄️
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- holiday GROOMED
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- seasonal GIFTING
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- wrapped ‘n ready
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- medals hung/bibs put away
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- 2018 Door of Fame
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- Merry Christmas 🎅
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- holiday LIGHTS
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- Greco TRADITION
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- season’s REASON
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- SOLSTICE sunrise
Neighborhood Gifting
In Native American cultures which tracked the calendar by the moons, December’s full moon was known as the Full Cold Moon. It is fittingly associated when winter cold fastens its grip and the nights become long and dark.
In 2018, the Cold Moon falls shortly after Friday’s winter solstice and the peak of the Ursid Meteor Shower. This is a minor meteor shower, people should only expect to see a few shooting stars per hour. December’s full moon is also called the Long Nights Moon because it typically occurs near winter solstice, the shortest day of the year.
