I've had the good fortune to spend almost every Christmas Holiday with my Mom (Jaine) and Dad (Jack).

Mom and Dad at Jeff's Place, Christmas 2014.

Last year after a brief illness, at age 92, we lost Dad just before Christmas, so neither Mom or I were much in a Christmas mood in 2015.

This year Mom and I celebrated Christmas together, and we had a real nice time, but we sure did miss Dad!

Westminster Christmas trees!

The Westminsters served as Christmas trees, and there were lots of presents under the 'tree' for Mom.

Mom with Christmas swag at Jeff's!

We had some fun opening presents!

Mom got a new Blu-Ray player!

Mom got a new Blu-Ray player for her audio & video system!

After opening the first round of presents, yours truly, the chef for the day, had Christmas dinner all ready, so we sat down for a nice meal together.

After dinner we started round two of opening presents, and Mom gave me some terrific jazz albums! (about which I'll have more to say in a future post)

I had Mom sign each of the jazz albums she got for me for sentimental reasons!

We had fun listening to the new jazz albums and some old Christmas albums!

Merry Christmas to you from Jaine & Jeff!

From our family to yours, we wish you a very Merry Christmas!