We drove to Tekameh Christmas morning to see Grandma Hansen and attend the Hansen Christmas. Everyone but Robb's parents and us live in Tekameh, so no matter how early we leave we are always pretty late. The goal is to get there in time that there is still some sausage and bacon left. You think I'm kidding. It is an issue. When you have 40+ people there and a lot of them are young farm boys the meat goes pretty fast. Grandma made us waffles when we got there and the boys got their fill of sausage and bacon. It was fun to see everyone but it was also hard not having grampy there to complain about the noise and amount of people. ( I do mean that in a loving way!) You just had to know Grampy. That many people in his house at once about drove him over the edge but he knew that Grammy wouldn't have it any other way so once a year he shut his mouth (for the most part) and let us take over the house.
Grandma made all the girls a pillow with one of her cross stitches on it and the remainder of the material was from one of Grandpa's shirts. It was a very thoughtful and neat gift to receive.
She made all the kids fleece blankets and tooth fairy pillows. She put a lot of time into picking a special fabric for each kid. The kids loved them. They were exhausted when we left and ended up napping with their new blankets on the way home.
On our way out of town we stopped at the cemetery to see Grandpa's headstone. It was a hard first Christmas without him and our hearts go out to Grammy because we know how much we miss him and can't imagine the emptiness she felt today.
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