christmas is evil

[Starise]

1 hour ago, ladypeartree said:

Good morning my brother  it is 10 am on Christmas norming here Hope you are well and no major weather problems 

This thread was an off shoot of ghosty mischief thread as I mentioned we normally have at least half a dozen Christmas is evil threads and this is now the first one 

I hope you are having a good one. The kids got together with us last night. My church is having services and we will go there today. After that it's probably a dfay of leisure.

Merry Christmas!

Christmas trees they are evil I tell ya. I had to put one up to pray against it.

 

[ladypeartree]

Beautiful and I see you have your guard dog watching over it too 

[Starise]

He likes to hang close in case I go for food.

[Starise]

I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas . 

I was just commenting to my wife that there is all of this build up and the next day it's all over. All of those presents were opened last night since the kids were over.

Today will be getting closer back to normal for us.

 

[ladypeartree]

One of my daughters is celebrating tomorrow as her two oldest children are with their father today . Her youngest child  is still young enough at 3 to be " fooled " although they have had to postpone my daughters birthday as well since she understands mummy has a birthday on Christmas day  

 

I am sitting here remembering so many years of frantic wrapping of gifts after retrieving them from hiding places , getting to bed about 2 am to be woken (???)  up as soon as my head hot the pillow to screams of joy from 4 little ones ( the one year they didnt get up till about 5am my next door neighbours were phoning to find out what was wrong as they had been waiting up to hear them since their children were all grown up  ) 

A quick breakfast and off to church followed by a long day with all the family at my parents house and my daughters birthday in the afternoon .

SOOOO thankful that today all I have to do is answer endless phone calls and see to the dogs 

[Henry_iain]

Just came back from my aunt  (the 95 year old). We had tea  and trifle (which she made).  We spoke about extended family that we never see and about how it was in the past. These days I often record her voice. She tells the most wonderful stories and she remembers things that most people have forgotten.  So it was very good.

[JohnD]

3 hours ago, Starise said:

I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas . 

I was just commenting to my wife that there is all of this build up and the next day it's all over. All of those presents were opened last night since the kids were over.

Today will be getting closer back to normal for us.

 

Celebrating a winter feast of kindness and peace and warmth is just fine and dandy.

Lying about Jesus is what I have a big problem with.

Happy Holidays!

[shel]

I love hearing everybody's Christmas stories 

[Ghostdog]

merry christmas worthy family

[ayin jade]

8 hours ago, Henry_iain said:

We have here banitsa (which is usually eaten with Greek yoghurt )

Egg salad,  a chicken dish with peppers, the ham is eaten with a nice hone made mustard sauce, a ciabatta, olives and gurkins, chorizo, prosciutto,  red beat, a kind of fritata, rice with mixed vegetable, asparagus with roasted almonds and as you said stuffed vine leaves. In Greece they are called dolmades in Bulgaria they are called Sarma. 

My aunt us Bulgarian and a vegetarian hence the many vegetarian friendly dishes and East European food . Fantastic food. A real feast. 

Sounds tasty.