Christmas eve
Dec. 24th, 2007 02:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
baronessekatIt feels weird today.
There's no rushing to get that last minute item that Mom finally told us she'd like.
There's no scrambling to get cookies baked
There's no arguing with wrapping paper and tape.
There's no grumbling over waiting until the last minute to decorate the tree.
I've got the turkey for tomorrow in the brine and in the fridge. It's my first time trying a brine. Great Recipe experiment #2. Results will be posted tomorrow.
Both sis and I feel like we should be doing something. About the only thing to do is shovel the driveway. Yesterday it was 55ºF out and all the snow from last weekend melted. But it's only 28ºF out now. The wind is gusty and it's bitter out. I don't feel like shoveling.
Tonight we will have our traditional Christmas Eve dinner. And if the weather's ok, we want to go get in the car and drive around the development and look at the Christmas lights on all the houses.
My aunt and uncle are coming over on Friday for Family Christmas. I'll be making the ham from the nice ham lady yesterday.
It's going to be a quiet and sedate holiday. Loved ones will be missed. But we shall hold them in our hearts.
There's no rushing to get that last minute item that Mom finally told us she'd like.
There's no scrambling to get cookies baked
There's no arguing with wrapping paper and tape.
There's no grumbling over waiting until the last minute to decorate the tree.
I've got the turkey for tomorrow in the brine and in the fridge. It's my first time trying a brine. Great Recipe experiment #2. Results will be posted tomorrow.
Both sis and I feel like we should be doing something. About the only thing to do is shovel the driveway. Yesterday it was 55ºF out and all the snow from last weekend melted. But it's only 28ºF out now. The wind is gusty and it's bitter out. I don't feel like shoveling.
Tonight we will have our traditional Christmas Eve dinner. And if the weather's ok, we want to go get in the car and drive around the development and look at the Christmas lights on all the houses.
My aunt and uncle are coming over on Friday for Family Christmas. I'll be making the ham from the nice ham lady yesterday.
It's going to be a quiet and sedate holiday. Loved ones will be missed. But we shall hold them in our hearts.
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Date: 2007-12-24 07:47 pm (UTC)You, she, and the girls are in our hearts tonight, tomorrow, and always. Happy Christmas.
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Date: 2007-12-24 08:01 pm (UTC)We doing family xmas on friday, or saturday or whatever.
Your family is out here. Kinda like the truth from the x-files. Teh familiez is out tehre.
Thinking of you very much. Sharing with you. You guys establish your holiday tradition and make it happen.
Or just enjoy the quiet of being. So many people get caught up in the rushing and the doing and the making and the forcing, you get opportunity to be and exist and just celebrate quiet together.
Christmas isn't about doing, is about being. Be you. Celebrate.
moo
I can understand that...
Date: 2007-12-25 03:34 am (UTC)--Hawk