Posted on 12/24/2019 3:19:39 PM PST by Skooz
Standing rib roast, potato casserole, and green bean and corn casserole. I have my wife's recipes and the casseroles look OK so far.
The grandsons are at that picky stage. They don't want casseroles but are content with Hash Brown potato cakes and applesauce.
Told my daughter I'm not tackling the creme brule... she's in charge of dessert. ;-)
I have a rib roast too this year,
You will laugh, when the kids were young and I was tired Christmas dinner was Pesto pasta, made with our own basil, Tomato and advacodo salad, and Christmas Birthday cake and vanilla ice cream.
Red green and all I had to do was boil the pasta. After the bacchanal of thanksgiving it was great!
Just me and the parrot - as usual. Merry Christmas!
I recall a scolding post from a few Christmases ago telling us to get off the internet and spend time with family. It was a general post to everyone posting anything on FR. I think Freepers ignored it for the most part plus we’re not all in the same time zone and some of us are overseas. Christmas morning here and I hope everyone has a merry day.
Merry Christmas,
FRiend!
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No Scolding here,
Just Egg Nog!
My ex-inlaws had a cottage up at Indian Lake in the Adirondacks. That was at least 40 years ago. It is a beautiful area.
I've had my CA ccw permit 20 years and a new law this year requires you to qualify for every gun you want on your permit.
We have three children(grown adults now)between us. Started having trouble corralling them for holidays when they were in their teens. The daughter was the worst because she would say she was coming for dinner and would end up changing her mind at the last minute. Grrr.
I cured them all of that. Declared a Family Dinner would be celebrated one Sunday in December and there were NO excuses for missing it. Had to end up making exceptions for work, deployments, and hospitalizations over the years; but it pretty much works out. Make them all agree to the weekend each year. The son-in-law and daughter-in-law love it because they don’t have to worry about running between houses on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Son-in-law really hated the house hopping when he was a child, said he never got to play with his toys on Christmas day.
Only rule is no ham or turkey for dinner. We have done lasagna, pork carnitas, tacos, chicken and dumplings, brisket, steaks, you name it. We open presents and do all the things we would normally do on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Takes the stress off of me too. I retired this year, but for the 32 Christmases before that I worked at the post office and by Christmas I was exhausted.
lol
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