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annual caroling with high school choir friends and a chili bar with neighbors, a slime-making playdate and a RiverFam pajama party, lunch and Keno with the West Virginia Poppies and doughnuts with pals in from Tahoe, soup Christmas and cousins all around and a football playoff, elf traps and Lego sets and new board games, the candlelight service and pickles to hide, SPAM for breakfast plus two harp performances, a gingerbread house extravaganza and cocktail sauce lessons, a home full of music and hearts eager with the anticipation of travel, special events and so many ordinary moments mixed in with holiday highlights: