We have now had our Christmas. The morning was spent getting ready for our guests. I finally got to make the pumpkin pies (more about that later!).
Tom and the girls arrived around 5. Laurel's father was not feeling well, so she stayed home to be with him. Marta had made a great number of hors d'oeuvres and we sat around eating and chatting for awhile.
Lacie had received a cell phone for Christmas and cell phones were a big thing during the evening!
It was time for the pies to come out of the oven and when I checked to make sure they were done and went to lick the knife I was using the test them, I realized I had forgotten to add sugar!!!!! But the turkey came out fine.
Bubba is having a strange feeling about the stuffed Bouncer. He knows it's a dog, he knows it sounds like Bouncer (there is barking included), but he doesn't seem to understand why it doesn't smell right. But still it was funny to watch him with the dog all evening.
There is always music at Christmas and Lacie started to play the piano. Jeri started to accompany her on the flute.
Tom played the guitar and then Lacie announced we should all sing along. To my amazement, she started playing "The Grassy Noel," a Lawsuit song. It was just such a strange and wonderful feeling to watch Lacie playing and everybody singing. How I wished Paul were there.
And of course the evening ended in a predictable way.
Everybody spent the night and Jeri will be leaving on the 6:45 a.m. train to catch her plane home from San Francisco.
It's been such a wonderful Christmas.
P.S. Marta had leftover cheese cake from the party she and Ned had been to the night before and everybody had cheesecake for dessert; nobody ate pumpkin pie. I tried one tiny piece with lots of whipped cream and it was terrible.
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Shame about the pumpkin pie but glad you had a wonderful Christmas.
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