Have a very Merry Christmas, 2007
Here it is the day of Christmas Eve. My son arrived yesterday and today I baked an apple pie and bread rolls. The pie is traditional for our family. It’s a cross between a Butterscotch Apple Pie and a French Apple Pie only with pecans and crasins. The bread rolls are from a Fanny Farmer cookbook and are great. With luck they’ll last until tomorrow but there so good out of the oven — hot with butter — that’s it’s going to be a near thing.
The tree is up and decorated with the old star ornament that seems to always want to lean one way of the other but never sit up straight. I collect Santa ornaments and so the tree is decorated with Santa Clauses of various kinds . We also collect bears, including bear ornaments, so there’s lots of bears on our tree as well. Mostly the ornaments are those Paul and I pick up as we see something that has meaning for us but they tend to be sort of a mix of country-ish ornaments, Santas, and bears (with the occasional tiger for Paul).
My son often doesn’t make it for the holidays since he works a lot of part-time jobs and a missed day is a day of pay missed so having him here for Christmas is a real treat. I hope that everyone has a very happy holiday season filled with love, laughter, and joy. Party wisely and if travel take care. Best wishes to all. To keep track of Santa’s trip check out NORAD.