Lee and I headed out on Friday afternoon the 18th to drive to my parent's house in Eastern Oregon.  We pulled into the driveway at 4:45AM on Saturday morning.  It was a long night - but so worth it to spend four full days at my house with my family.  I LOVE being at home. Since my sister had to work on Christmas day, we all came home the weekend before Christmas to celebrate early.

We maintained all the Kalemba traditions with an ethnic dinner on "Christmas Eve", games, new PJ's and a children's Christmas book.   My mom was amazing and made her incredible egg rolls and outfitted us ALL in fabulous pajamas.  It was even the first time my dad got Xmas PJs!  We took it slow on Christmas Morning, enjoyed Polish babka, kielbasa,  and lots of other tasty traditions.  Lee even learned how to make my mom's FAMOUS potato salad.  And since we celebrated Christmas on the 23rd, we ended our festivities with a trip to the county health department for a free H1N1 vaccine.  We had a wonderful Christmas Day and loved being all together.  And lucky us, we get to do it all over again with Lee's family!