Before Covid we used to have a tree trimming party every year. It was a highlight of the season. My girls would invite their friends, and we would generally invite the same people every year. People we have loved all our lives and are our dear friends, who, strangely enough, do not celebrate Christmas. But they are the best tree trimmers ever! We would also invite these friends to our Christmas Eve party, and they always attended, and brought the most delicious dishes, helped

I'll tell you the truth. Part of the reason that I do this blog so consistently, is that I want to create a record for my daughters and granddaughters of their life and times during an extraordinary period in history. And while my records reflect mostly the personal and not the public scale of events, I think it will be important for them to look back and see what we did, what was happening, and how the Bickett Hubbells were behaving when these unusual events overtook us. My