Had an awesome Christmas Eve. Took it pretty easy--did minimal grocery shopping, went out to lunch, played games inside and then got started on dinner.
For Christmas Eve dinner, Keri chose to make breakfast (Neal got to choose Christmas Day dinner). We had
Orange Waffles with
Cranberry Syrup and they were great. Used whole wheat flour and corn starch for the cake flour and nearly doubled the zest.
Then Neal finished up his pumpkin-butternut pie. Don't ask Neal to cut butter into flour with two knifes. He turns into Scrooge. But when his pie comes out perfect he turns into the spirit of Christmas himself. Although he did state that the color of the pie looked like "baby crap." The coloring looks great in this photo though.
We watched The Nativity movie, which is minutes, a few times and talked them through the Bible's Christmas story while it played. Then we got the carrots put out on the back porch for Santa's reindeer and Sophie put her present to Santa and cookies near the fireplace.
Then it was off to bed and Sophie got the
Three Wise Women of Christmas as a bedtime story. Rhys got the simple version on Jesus' birth from his board book New Testament.
Neal and I wound down and flipped channels catching a few scenes from A Christmas Story. It was a very good day.
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