{"id":1106,"date":"2009-01-02T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/my-christmas-vacation\/"},"modified":"2013-07-12T22:22:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T03:22:51","slug":"my-christmas-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/my-christmas-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"My Christmas Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"

So you may wonder why I haven’t been blogging much the last few weeks.\u00a0 Well, my husband and I decided at the last minute to take a trip to Arizona to visit my mom for the holidays.\u00a0 It’s been five years since we last saw her, when she was out here for our wedding.\u00a0 This was Jim’s Christmas present to both me and my mom, and what a wonderful gift it was.<\/p>\n

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We left on Sunday, December 21.\u00a0 We stayed in Little Rock, AR that night, then headed to Midland, TX for the second leg of the drive.\u00a0 We left Midland on Tuesday and arrived at mom’s around 6:30pm that night.<\/p>\n

Christmas Eve and Christmas day were spent at home, reminiscing about family.\u00a0 Mom cooked a wonderful ham dinner on Christmas Eve and a yummy turkey dinner on Christmas (boy do I miss that stuffing!).<\/p>\n

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On Friday, we decided to take a short trip to Tombstone, AZ.\u00a0 We weren’t too impressed.\u00a0 It was a little on the commercialized side, but we did enjoy the food.\u00a0 We visited some of the antique shops there and I got some vintage postcards and a bag full of letters and other paper artifacts.\u00a0 At one shop, I inquired about how much she would take for the entire box of cabinet cards; her response “Well, I’d have to add them all up since their priced differently.”\u00a0 Mind you, they were her’s, not another dealer’s, so she could have negotiated.\u00a0 Come on…how many does she sell individually?\u00a0 I was willing to take them off her hands for the right price, but oh well.<\/p>\n

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On Saturday, we took a trip to Bisbee, AZ.\u00a0 Bisbee is a mining town, and unlike Tombstone, it was not commercialized.\u00a0 It was beautiful and we had a lot of fun there.\u00a0 I also managed to pick up some cabinet cards while I was there!<\/p>\n

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Sunday was emotional.\u00a0 Jim and I packed up the car and headed out.\u00a0 It was hard for me, as I would have loved to have stayed longer.\u00a0 It’s actually hard to write this even now, a week later, as I miss my mom and wish we didn’t live so far apart.<\/p>\n

We drove to Arlington, TX where we spent the night.\u00a0 On Monday, we drove to Longview, TX to visit my grandaunt, Flo.\u00a0 We stayed for a few hours and then drove the long drive home, arriving at 6am on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

It was an emotional and exhausting trip, but I had a great time.\u00a0 A big thanks to my wonderful husband for such a great Christmas gift!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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