Kicked off the holidays delivering Santa Suit cupcakes from Yum Yum to our neighbors - the 4-packs looked fabulous & tasted even better!!!
Christmas caroling around the neighborhood was followed by a party at a neighbor's home. What fun it was!!
Christmas Eve was full of Christmas heart - sat next to Cavanaugh's at Ivyland candlelight service, followed by dinner at our beloved Pineville Tavern, then back home for a snuggle & midnight viewing of The Spirit of Christmas, with its wonderful (marionette!) telling of the Lord's birth - a tradition that John introduced to our celebration.
Intentionally low key Christmas Day. Took Anne Davis Hyatt to cathedral Christmas service, with I loved. Watched holiday movies for a lot of the afternoon. Early dinner was take-out Chinese food. As has become our tradition, waited to do our stockings & presents until later (as it turned out, much later).
Things that I forgot & want to remember next year include what we've traditionally enjoyed for Christmas dinner and which I clear forgot in 2011 - pot roast and poached salmon, my own version of surf & turf! Actually did have a variation on that theme on the day we finally unwrapped gifties - Jan 8!! ~~ corned beef hash with carmelized onions & a rasher of bacon accompanied by rolled up slivers of smoked salmon.
Pot roast & poached salmon ~OR~ corned beef hash delux & smoked salmon? Will be a hard choice this year which to make. Maybe like we did this year - the first for Christmas Day, the more casual for our Great Unwrapping.
It was just a couple days ago that I finally made the pot roast that should have graced our tummies on 12/25. Turned out to be the best gravy I've produced EVER! Might have been because the rump roast - larger & denser than our usual shoulder cut - took longer to slow cook. Oh yum, it was delectable.
A tasty, holly jolly Christmas all around!!!
* Didn't seem it would be all that merry late Christmas Day, when I had a bit of a melt down. It had nothing to do with Christmas & everything to do with John thinking like a guy and me thinking like a gal. Praise be, we came away from it with new insights into guy/gal stuff & a deepening of our relationship.
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