Dec 26th

We slept in.
It was very good.
Breakfast consisted of French Toast - Bacon and OJ. We are resting. It will be leftovers tonight and there are plenty of them.

We have had a lovey Christmas thus far. Christmas Eve day we rose early and hit the grocery stores. We shopped and filled our baskets with many different cheeses; meats and ingredients to make our favourite sidedish of carrots. We were done in record time. Then it was home to make the dessert - the sidedish of carrots; finish the PJ's - put together appetizers for later that evening and clean my sink.

We bundled ourselves out the door to Christmas Eve Vespers. The first hour of the service I quite enjoyed but the last hour I found it difficult to concentrate. But, we survived and we came home and hosted a quiet evening with good friends...

A bath; the stockings stuffed and off to bed by midnight...

Christmas Day we rose by 6.30am - sat quietly in the light of the Christmas tree - then we sing O' Come All Ye Faithful and wake the children... we open stockings... and then off to Liturgy.... which zipped along a lovely pace... and then we were greeting everyone with Christ is Born; Glorify Him and off home we went... the day was spend very quietly - we just hung out - doing separate things but resting in the knowlege we were all home together - and we even had a snowfall.

Dinner prep was easy - the potato water was saved - there was plenty of gravy. My yorkshire pudding was again flat... need to work on that recipe - but still very yummy.

We rested. We played a game of LIFE. We watched It's a Wonderful Life.