These photos do not show the reality of how this Christmas went. This was a ROUGH one. One I’d LOVE to forget/erase/do over. DO BETTER. It truly sucked. But still. Happy to have these photos even if they are not an accurate representation of how our emotional/mental/physical state was.

Papa and Yaiya/Babushka/ Oma with all their grandchildren to date. All the cousins for this branch of the family tree to date. And a nice group shot with all of us with our lovely matriarch. Love Love Love Grandma Joani. SO beyond happy to have these photos. They are certainly a balm to the crapfest this Christmas turned out to be.  I’m postdating this post 2.5 years after the fact because it’s taken that long to begin healing from events. It was BRUTAL.