by Elizabeth Trail

 We were blessed, growing up, by being the only grandchildren on either side of the family.  And since both sides lived close, the holiday season was a prolonged affair, with the hosting for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s parceled out among my mother and the two grandmothers.

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