You have to love Christmas Eve and Christmas Eve day - the last minute shopping - (and GROCERY SHOPPING - bizarrely one of my favorite activities in the world) - baking - and Christmas wrapping. Truly, I love Christmas Eve more than just about any other day. The excited happy anticipation of what the morrow will hold - presents, family, family's reaction to the presents you got them, the FOOD, the tree getting so much attention (I FINALLY put up the final candy canes), if you do venture out to - oh say - the beach - everyone saying MERRY CHRISTMAS or HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Christmas - there is a sadness, you know the moments are all fleeting, but Christmas EVE - you know they are still to come! This year was extra special because my dad made Beef Wellington - Yum-o! It was like having a Christmas dinner BEFORE Christmas dinner!
Who knows where this Christmas will rank on the overall scheme of Christmases. But I know I'm happy - I made my mint chip cookies (See previous entry) and have another bag of mint chips to make ANOTHER BATCH! OH BOY! OH BOY! And Traditional Christmas Sugar Cookies. AND - I'm taking on a relatively behemoth project of baking a maple walnut cake with maple cream cheese frosting. It smells delicious thus far, but who knows about the final result! I do wait with baited breath --- baited mainly to stop myself from smelling the cakes and eating them all now - before they are frosted!
Well - msnbc.coms Santa tracker says that Santa is right over my head - so I suppose I should go to bed. But I wanted to write about the glory that is Christmas Eve.
Merry Christmas to one and all!:)
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