It's time to start thinking more about Christmas.
Our holidays this year will be pretty straightforward -- we're still packing up and clearing away, so it will be a chance to enjoy a few items before they disappear into the donation bin.
The Seven Fish Dishes are coming... a tradition for our family for decades now.
This year, I plan to add something different. British Christmas cake has been on our table for years -- Austrian Sachertorte, too. Now I'll add some more English desserts, including mince pie and Christmas pudding. Maybe even a meat pie and salmon mousse, as well. (Recipes for these are coming.)
We'll be doing other things we always do:
*Setting up the Nativity figures -- then watch the girlies move them around. Which amuses the crap out of me. (But don't tell them that.)
*Holiday movies, enjoyed several nights each week -- starting with National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
*Packing shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child.
*Funding some quiet gifts to people who need them -- in a way that they'll never know who did it.
*Going to at least one holiday concert.
*Singing in our church choir (starting the first Sunday of Advent -- practice has already begun).
*Christmas presents (a few), plus the pleasure of filling stockings.
I really enjoy doing this. (Other people do, too.)
The girlies and Son #1 act nonchalant, but I notice they don't hesitate to dig in. The Brick, on the other hand, is blase about it -- so I just put in a few things for him, particularly...
*A can of black olives for each Christmas stocking (to be munched on while reading the Christmas book of the season)
It's fun to see how others treat this happy time, as well. And the pleasure is just beginning!
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