Saturday, December 6, 2025
Time: 2:07 PM
Song: Hook
Artist: Blues Traveler
Mode of Consumption: Listening to the radio on the way home from Jodi’s moms.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/27IRo2rYeizhRMDaNVplNM?si=11908d97508d481b
For the last decade or more, we haven’t bought our parents presents for Christmas. The reality being that they have reached a point in their lives where there are not many material possessions that they want, and the ones they do, they often just go out an purchase when the need arises.
Instead of presents, we take them on daytrips. Sometimes it’s all together, sometimes we do one trip with my parents and one with Jodi’s.
The sole exception was in 2023 when we took Jodi’s parents to Washington, D.C. The trip happened in the spring, so the trips don’t always happen around Christmas. That trip came about because her parents had mentioned many times over the years that they wanted to go to the capital. They, however, didn’t want to do the driving out there. So, we took them.
We wanted them to make it while they were both still in good health and able to do the walking that D.C. requires. As it turns out, we did it just in time, as her Dad would pass away unexpectantly in November of that same year.
Jodi’s mom told some acquaintances about this as we ate lunch today at restaurant in Mt. Carroll. We took my parents and her mom to a Christmas home tour in Mt. Carroll today, which consisted of five stops to see old houses in the area.
Mt. Carroll is a small village in the hills of Northwest Illinois. Most of the homes were built in the late 1800s or early 1900s. Each had owners who knew some of the history, and different ways that each had changed over the years.
The homes were fun, the memories better.
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