A very merry Christmas to all who are celebrating, and a very happy Friday to everyone who isn't! It's far too warm here now for it to really feel like Christmas. No chance of a white Christmas this year, sadly, not with record highs on Christmas Eve, but I'm doing my best to stay in the Christmas spirit anyway. I've been shopping and decorating and baking and wrapping and listening to Christmas music and reading holiday romances for weeks now. Christmas is a big holiday in my family, and is actually my favorite holiday. We celebrate and get together with family on both Christmas Eve and Christmas. My family is Italian so we have the feast of the seven fishes on Christmas Eve, an Italian tradition of eating fish on Christmas Eve. We ate several different fish dishes, which might be my favorite holiday meal, but the fun is always getting everyone together. We'll still be cooking, frying fish and shrimp and calamari, when everyone arrives and we'll all gather in the kitchen, drinking wine and laughing while we cook. After a massive meal, there's midnight mass. Then back home to sleep so Santa can come.
Today I'm with family again, opening presents in the morning and having a big breakfast, then spending more time cooking before family begins to arrive again for dinner. The meal is a long one in several courses - beginning with my sister's crab cakes moving on to a pasta course then some sort of meat course (cornish hens this year) and finally fruit, chestnuts, dessert (all those Christmas cookies I've been baking since last week!). So much food - we have to warn first time visitors to pace themselves - and there's wine too, don't forget that. There'll probably be board games after dinner. We usually play something, which provokes even more laughter and silliness. It's a holiday tradition I love, going back to when I was a kid. Unfortunately my family members are not Doctor Who fans so I'll be DVRing the Christmas special and watching that tomorrow on my own. Oh well, can't have everything.
Hope everyone has a lovely day!
Today I'm with family again, opening presents in the morning and having a big breakfast, then spending more time cooking before family begins to arrive again for dinner. The meal is a long one in several courses - beginning with my sister's crab cakes moving on to a pasta course then some sort of meat course (cornish hens this year) and finally fruit, chestnuts, dessert (all those Christmas cookies I've been baking since last week!). So much food - we have to warn first time visitors to pace themselves - and there's wine too, don't forget that. There'll probably be board games after dinner. We usually play something, which provokes even more laughter and silliness. It's a holiday tradition I love, going back to when I was a kid. Unfortunately my family members are not Doctor Who fans so I'll be DVRing the Christmas special and watching that tomorrow on my own. Oh well, can't have everything.
Hope everyone has a lovely day!
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