My wife finally admitted that this was the best Christmas we’d ever had.
- I knew this but for sure, I wasn’t going to say anything.
I was the main reason why this holiday season was so different. That’s because I told my wife and her parents that they were welcome inside the central air conditioning of our house for Christmas. But I wasn’t making that trip any longer. My wife and I have now been married for 17 years. We ended up having dogs instead of having kids. That meant we always had to travel to my wife’s parents home for family Christmas. But the last time we were there, my nieces and nephews couldn’t be bothered and we barely saw them. So the idea of leaving wonderful weather down south just wasn’t worth it anymore. Why should I leave an area that doesn’t even need the heat pump to be working to go deal with a serious winter? Plus, my wife’s parents keep their thermostat pegged and the gas furnace on almost constantly. It’s one thing to be in a region where it’s freezing outside. But it’s a whole other thing to have to sweat it out while you’re inside. So I finally just said I was done with the traveling and they were welcome to come here. Surprisingly, they chose to come down and spend Christmas with us and my thermostat setting. But we ended up having just the best time ever. And it only took my wife two weeks to finally admit that this really was the best Christmas ever.