Christmas and such
Dec. 25th, 2018 01:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingWe ended up having leftover Chinese for dinner last night rather than make jambalaya, because Mom over-ordered takeout on Saturday. Nobody minded; it was still delicious. :)
Our family had volunteered to usher at the 9pm Christmas Eve service, so we got into the car at 8pm and arrived in time to finish tidying up after the 7pm service and setting up for the new influx of people. The service itself was nice. I mean, they generally are. Beacon (...did I ever mention that my childhood congregation, which had spent decades wrangling over whether to call itself Unitarian Universalist, or just Unitarian, or a Congregation, or a Church, etcetera ad infinitum, finally did an end run around the issue by renaming itself Beacon: Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Summit? Because they did, a year or two ago) has a pretty set format that doesn't change much from year to year.
Afterwards we came home, drank champagne cocktails, and talked about this and that until maybe 12:30am, at which point I shut myself up in my childhood bedroom to finish the expanded version of my Yuletide assignment. I got it successfully tidied and posted around 3am. Then I crashed.
We had breakfast at about 9:45am this morning -- apple cinnamon muffins, bacon, softboiled eggs for everyone except Vicky (who dislikes cooked eggs), and fruit of choice (pineapple for Vicky, banana slices in orange juice for Mom and Dad, a clementine for me). Then we did gift-opening from about 10:30am onward, after which we participated in cleanup to various degrees and then went our separate ways.
I have commented on my Yuletide gift, which is lovely (I will make a rec post about it later), and now I'm going to take a nap since Susan will arrive around 3:30pm and past that point my day is booked pretty solid with socializing, dinner, and a movie-with-family.
I hope you all have an excellent day whether you're celebrating anything in particular or not! :D
Our family had volunteered to usher at the 9pm Christmas Eve service, so we got into the car at 8pm and arrived in time to finish tidying up after the 7pm service and setting up for the new influx of people. The service itself was nice. I mean, they generally are. Beacon (...did I ever mention that my childhood congregation, which had spent decades wrangling over whether to call itself Unitarian Universalist, or just Unitarian, or a Congregation, or a Church, etcetera ad infinitum, finally did an end run around the issue by renaming itself Beacon: Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Summit? Because they did, a year or two ago) has a pretty set format that doesn't change much from year to year.
Afterwards we came home, drank champagne cocktails, and talked about this and that until maybe 12:30am, at which point I shut myself up in my childhood bedroom to finish the expanded version of my Yuletide assignment. I got it successfully tidied and posted around 3am. Then I crashed.
We had breakfast at about 9:45am this morning -- apple cinnamon muffins, bacon, softboiled eggs for everyone except Vicky (who dislikes cooked eggs), and fruit of choice (pineapple for Vicky, banana slices in orange juice for Mom and Dad, a clementine for me). Then we did gift-opening from about 10:30am onward, after which we participated in cleanup to various degrees and then went our separate ways.
I have commented on my Yuletide gift, which is lovely (I will make a rec post about it later), and now I'm going to take a nap since Susan will arrive around 3:30pm and past that point my day is booked pretty solid with socializing, dinner, and a movie-with-family.
I hope you all have an excellent day whether you're celebrating anything in particular or not! :D
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Date: 2018-12-26 02:27 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-12-26 02:48 am (UTC)I don't go in for this myself because A) I'm indifferent toward banana and B) I have yet to find an orange juice that doesn't taste weirdly off, but my parents have been doing this for decades.