Hi everyone, Christmas this year will be a little different for us in that DD, Judy, who drove up from Atlanta yesterday (806 miles) with boyfriend, has to go back on Sunday (Boxing Day). I decided that we will treat Christmas Eve as Boxing Day and we will eat all the things that we usually never get round to on Christmas Day such as ham, mince pies, trifle and christmas pud. I am going to make roast beef and yorkshire pudding on Christmas Day and as her boyfriend wants to show his skills at making crepes, that will be our dessert. I know, two batter dishes!! I wanted to drop the yorkshire puds as they usually set off the smoke alarm but I was shot down by everyone who wants them. Nostalgia rules again and that is why the christmas pudding will be served on the 24th. I managed to get some crackers which we will have with our Christmas dinner. Andy, the boyfriend is still not sure what they are even though DD said there was a scene in the new Bridget Jones movie where he saw them we aring the paper crowns. One thing I miss every Christmas is the pork pies that we used to have on the buffet. I have never found anything similar to them in the states although I was able to get Scottish pies when we lived in Michigan. Not the same but a taste of home. I was told to discontinue the stockings a few years ago and seeing as my kids are 31 and 32 they are happy not to have me creep into the room with a rustling stocking any more, besides it was getting very expensive to fill them now that plastic trinkets are not acceptable to them. I did manage to get a Beano Annual for Andy with a note to share it with DD. He also found it hard to visualize an English comic book as his only reference are American comic books. Hope he is not disappointed with Denis the Menace and Desperate Dan (or was he in the Dandy), but at least DD can share it with him on the drive home. Today I have packed them off to Chicago to visit the museums, tomorrow I am going to give them both a requested knitting lesson and on Thursday we are off to a very nice restaurant for a meal that I don't have to cook. I will take this opportunity to wish all my arachne friends a happy Christmas and if that is not PC these days, please have a happy holiday season. Janice Crystal Lake, IL where we had a sprinkle of snow last night, with promise of more later in the week, so we might have a white Christmas after all. P.S. The local school banned the singing of Wish you a Merry Christmas as not PC and the kids sang Merry Holiday instead!!
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