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Last night I phoned my cousins up in Massachusetts to wish them a Merry Christmas. We had some cheery conversations. I miss them and their families. (OK, I haven't met the newest family member because she was born just 5 days ago -- yes, my cousin D.A. has a new baby granddaughter named Paulina!)
I'm not traveling to Massachusetts again this year for various reasons, mostly involving the weather. Earlier this week I had to talk R. out of driving to NJ for a funeral today because I was hearing predictions about lots of snow and ice. (R. has a friend in Freehold who lost his wife about a week ago -- although she had many chronic health issues, sudden cardiac arrest did her in.) I don't think we got too much sleet/freezing rain here along the East Coast, but we're certainly in a deep freeze.
At least the things I *need* to do are done, so I can do things that I *want* to do, like catch up on movies and TV, knit, read, and eat homemade sweets. The boy toy has been baking cookies and a chocolate tart. Tomorrow night, for Christmas Eve, he'll make clam chowder and biscuits from scratch. For Christmas, he follows his family's traditional menu: eggs Benedict for breakfast and a roast beef for dinner. In between we'll have a light lunch of broccoli soup, and for evening dessert we'll have a Christmas pudding, both from a "Christmas at Highclere" book his Anglophile mother gave him a few years back. We'll have a bit of Downton Abbey around here!
Not much else to say; I'm still plugging along with church and Toastmasters and SCA. I'm about at the halfway mark of my three-year term as a trustee of the congregation. Whew.
I'm not traveling to Massachusetts again this year for various reasons, mostly involving the weather. Earlier this week I had to talk R. out of driving to NJ for a funeral today because I was hearing predictions about lots of snow and ice. (R. has a friend in Freehold who lost his wife about a week ago -- although she had many chronic health issues, sudden cardiac arrest did her in.) I don't think we got too much sleet/freezing rain here along the East Coast, but we're certainly in a deep freeze.
At least the things I *need* to do are done, so I can do things that I *want* to do, like catch up on movies and TV, knit, read, and eat homemade sweets. The boy toy has been baking cookies and a chocolate tart. Tomorrow night, for Christmas Eve, he'll make clam chowder and biscuits from scratch. For Christmas, he follows his family's traditional menu: eggs Benedict for breakfast and a roast beef for dinner. In between we'll have a light lunch of broccoli soup, and for evening dessert we'll have a Christmas pudding, both from a "Christmas at Highclere" book his Anglophile mother gave him a few years back. We'll have a bit of Downton Abbey around here!
Not much else to say; I'm still plugging along with church and Toastmasters and SCA. I'm about at the halfway mark of my three-year term as a trustee of the congregation. Whew.
