Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

We have a few items to wrap this evening; ScienceKid is hanging fiberglass in the workshop’s ceiling area while Pat watches, MilitaryKid is watching Christmas movies, and I’m re-organizing my pull-out shelves. Pat left a note–the BUILDER is NOT responsible for OVERSTUFFED shelves. Yea, very funny. He enjoys finding me with something disorganized since that is not me. Ok, they were bulging a bit but moving a few things around and installing 2 more shelves helped allot. Needless to say I have very little to do to prepare for Christmas. Strange, very strange.

Yesterday however was a different story. I started shopping at 7am, and once home got to cooking. Liver pate, deviled eggs, apple strudel, chocolate mousse, hummus, Italian Snack Loaf, and probable something else I’m forgetting that I made. We’re headed out tonight for take-out Chinese, cruise through neighborhoods to look at lights but I think we will forego Christmas church service. Chinese take-out is what we always ate on Christmas eve for our 16 years in New England but since I knew Dad didn’t like it we went with something more traditional the last 5 years here in Delaware. This year he is not here to enjoy Christmas with us. And I need to do a few things different too. Or the same as they used to be years ago. I wish we could find a traditional Christmas church service, with tradtional music, and candles,…. but that’s not the case at our church.

Tomorrow we’ll have apple strudel, Amish sticky buns, chocolate milk, OJ and coffee for our breakfast. We enjoy breakfast while we open gifts and we try to make the opening of presents last for a few hours. Lunch will be Italian Snack loaf. Afternoon snacks will be deviled eggs, liver pate, Cajun crabmeat dip, and garlic shrimp. Dinner will be standing rib roast, roasted potatoes, cole slaw, Green beans with onions, and chocolate mousse for desert.

I hope the boys enjoy their presents and have lots of memorable fun tomorrow. Merry Christmas Everyone!