Christmases past

Xmas 2018, we went to SD#1 for lunch.
Aunty Eileen and Aunty Pat had died in 2018.
Xmas 2017, DH I went up to stay in Richmond and took Eileen to mass on Xmas day (and I went to the Saturday vigil mass too), and for a meal in the hotel on Xmas day - not wheel chair accessible. Daughter had gone to live in Canada.

Mum had died.

Xmas 2016, Daughter's Canadian friend came. We all three, CF, DD & I went to midnight  mass at St Joe's. We visited Mum at her cafe home.
MumC had died.

Xmas 2015
Dad had died.

Xmas 2014, just three of us. DD, DH and I went out for lunch.  I had to rush up to Yorkshire to see Mum and Dad before Christmas. Was that the year we invited DH's brother & wife for lunch later that week? They came the year before DH got cancer, now fixed. We'll meet them for lunch next week.

Xmas 2013, 5 years ago, one of the nicest with the most and best promises for 2014. SD #2 came over at coffee time with her son & daughter but had to leave before DS and girlfriend got here so girlfriend never met her and they never met her new son. DS & girlfriend told that they had got engaged, & SD#3 rang to say the same with her partner,

Xmas 2012 6 years ago, SD #2 came with her new son. Photo on FB

Xmas 2010, we went to do Xmas for my parents. DD flew home from Bordeaux (She had an EU Erasmus scholarship) for Xmas. I gave my supervisors the first full draft of my thesis.

Xmas 2009 was nice - the last time my elders came.

Many deaths leave me now without the older generation before me, unless you count my father's cousins. They're only a tad older than my DH.