@ehBeth,
I only had one Christmas that was a bit unique -- the contractor was over ninety-days late building my home in Laguna Beach so we all spent the Holidays in a motel. Naturally, he wouldn't pay for a very expensive hotel so we brought machine guns for the cockroaches.
D0 you suppose Christmas dinner will be like home cooked? I was never in a hospital at Christmas but nearly made Thanksgiving.
Anyway, home Andrew is getting better with each day. My mouth is watering remembering the sunset dinner in Seal Beach before they headed off to Hawaii. I had one to many martinis 'cause they got lost coming down from LA.