{"id":202,"date":"2006-12-25T10:19:54","date_gmt":"2006-12-25T17:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=202"},"modified":"2008-11-27T17:08:40","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T00:08:40","slug":"christmas-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

We decorate our tree on Christmas Eve.\u00a0 When we had small children, we’d wait until they were asleep so that the decorated tree would be a Christmas morning surprise.\u00a0 Once the kids\u00a0got older, they stayed up to help.\u00a0 Now that our nest is empty, we invite friends\u00a0– and the kids, of course, whenever they can come – to help us hang ornaments.\u00a0 Last night we were joined by one kid, Polly, and two friends, Darrell and Mary Anne the refugee<\/a>.\u00a0 So here’s our Martha Stewart Omniliving Corp. Tree, no longer\u00a0a surprise but still pretty nice to see first thing on Christmas morning, in all its glory:<\/p>\n

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O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum . . .<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The decorating committee had cioppino for Christmas Eve dinner.\u00a0 I used a recipe from the net, and while the seafood itself – halibut, clams, shrimp, crab, lobster – was great,\u00a0the broth was bland.\u00a0 I\u00a0remember cioppino as being spicy, and this cioppino wasn’t.\u00a0 Then, this morning, I looked in my own cookbook<\/a>, and lo and behold, there’s a great cioppino recipe<\/a> there, the recipe I should’ve used in the first place.\u00a0 Well, maybe next year.<\/p>\n

We opened our presents this morning, and later today we’ll enjoy a nice Christmas dinner, just Donna, Polly, and me.\u00a0 Oh, and our cat, a visiting cat we’re babysitting for a vacationing friend, and our dog, who has already chewed her Christmas present – a stuffed animal – to pieces.<\/p>\n

I have to mention one people present in particular, namely mine.\u00a0 A few years ago Donna brought me a gas barbecue grill, and I gave my old charcoal Weber to our son.\u00a0 Ever since, I’ve been bitching about how much less fun barbecuing is with gas than with charcoal.\u00a0 Well, my bitching paid off: I got a brand new Weber!\u00a0 Thanks, Donna!<\/p>\n

I’ll close with a link to a very nice entry at one of my favorite blogs, Making Light<\/a>.\u00a0 Merry Christmas, everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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