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Mark and Bob came up from Atlanta to visit the family that they both have here in New York and squeezed us in for a nice lunch date. Was really great to see them both. Made me very happy.

File Away for Next Year

Saw this on some friend of a friend of a friend on Facebook, thought it was all the cute. Tomatoes would sort of suck mid winter... but maybe some of those nice little Israeli ones...

CHRISTMAS DAY

Woke up Christmas Morning - we opened presents, then I made a nice breakfast...

Easy Peasy day - because I set the table the day before!

10 of us that turned into 11 at the last min, but no worries... I didn't go with any of the pre planned table settings, didn't have 10 of any salad plate. So a little mix and match red and green. You can't tell from these photos, but the table runner is just large glitter paper, so it was really sparkly.

festive

Koda and Smithwicks had a nice romp while we had hors d'oeuvres

I made a banana pudding that morning, meaning to do it the day before, but just ran out of time. So it was a little bit banana sourish ... luckily there was still a spot of ice outside to plop it down in for a couple of hours, setting it up perfectly.

Fried Turkey and a GIANT standing rib roast

David cuts the meat.

Big Salad
THE MEAT
Baked Potatoes with loads of toppings
Roasted Sprouts and Cauliflower ( that I over roasted upon reheating )

post meal snuggles

the pudding

post game

and chatting.

Christmas Eve / First Night of Hanukkah

The reason it is better for me to blog daily rather than trying to catch up, ever two days later. This was a lot for two days. Seems like we did something Christmas Eve day... but now can't remember what. No matter, it was lovely. On to the food :