Christmas in Oconomowoc

Staybridge Suites

It doesn't look like the fog of this midwest December is giving up anytime soon, but the spirit of Christmas is shaping up here in Oconomowoc in a profoundly wonderful way.  We are only ten

Xmas room at the Staybridge Suites

minutes away from Julia and wait for our daily visits with eager hearts in our hands.  As intensely as the parent fears new problems, those fears are interrupted, as of the moment anyway, by progress as the courage and wisdom of a thirteen year old is quietly, gradually finding itself out.

With only a countertop kitchen range in the room, Christmas dinner will be ham, potatoes and brussel sprouts, maybe boiled together in a pot, and served with enough chocolate to feed Santa's elves.

The Pick and Save grocery is just down the road.  Little shopping centers make stocking stuffers easy

to find, and the presents under the tree probably smell of Frasier Pine from the dangling car scent.