Christmas Eve chez moi
Christmas Eve started with Mass, where I read the first reading (and loved doing it, it’s so good), and then we had dinner at my brother and sister-in-law’s house, followed by presents and the traditional Christmas Eve viewing of A Christmas Story.
The Emma Bridgewater pottery my brother and SIL got me—I collect it! And how awesome is the personalized cocoa mug?!
Afterwards my parents dropped me off at my apartment, where I spent Christmas Eve working on some knitting projects for me and watching Muppet Christmas Carol, which is truly a classic. I also re-read some of my favorite Christmas novels.
Christmas Day
My dad picked me up and we had breakfast before opening our gifts.
We always have sausage and cinnamon rolls for breakfast, and it’s my favorite breakfast of the year!
One of the 12 Days of Christmas plates from my mom’s set.
After that we opened presents! I got one very special present that deserves its own post, so stay on the lookout for that!
Christmas booooooooks! :) (And I got Amazon gift cards, which also lead to—more Christmas books!) I will talk all about the books later during Blogmas!
We had an easy lunch, followed by a game of Harry Potter Scrabble where we used all the tiles. I am proud of our accomplishment! My mom is amazing at word games, so she won, as I expected. (I am not very good at word games, which surprises people, because they think that being a writer I’d be good at word games. I’m not, really. I tend to think of bigger words that don’t fit on the board!)
We had dinner and then I went home to spend the rest of the day.
Christmas fact: Today is the feast of St. Stephen, the first martyr!
MUSIC: Two today!
Mannheim—this time it’s O Holy Night.
Loreena McKennit’s awesome version of “Good King Wenceslas”, which takes place today, “On the feast of Stephen”. It will make you want to dance!