Today, is the first of my family Christmas celebrations, which I am calling Family Funday. My mother’s side of the family comes to celebrate a weekend early because it’s impossible for everyone to get together on Christmas day any more. My mom’s brother and his wife and children and all of their grandchildren travel over the river (seriously…they drive across the Mississippi River) and through the woods ( we have a lot of trees in Illinois) to my mother’s house.

We spend the day talking and eating, laughing and eating, playing bunko and eating, and watching kids open presents and eating. (Do you see a pattern?) By the end of the day I’ll have eaten way too many cookies but what the heck…Christmas only comes once a year. Or in our case, twice. I hope you have a Happy Sunday Family Funday too.