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| Christmas Eve dinner! |
Stephen and I just love the holidays but being so far from home means holidays are usually spent alone. Not this year! Christmas Eve our neighbors asked us to join them for Christmas Eve dinner. Our evening started off with tons of appetizers which were to die for-I had to limit myself to one of everything so I would have room for dinner! For dinner Jill and Kate spent all day preparing ham, potatoes, spinach casserole and my favorite a corn casserole!
Right before dinner Jill handed out Christmas Crackers. These are he neatest things Ive ever seen!
Wikipedia definition: Christmas crackers are part of Christmas celebrations primarily in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Commonwealth countries such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. A cracker consists of a cardboard tube wrapped in a brightly decorated twist of paper,[1] making it resemble an oversized sweet-wrapper. The cracker is pulled by two people, often with arms crossed, and, much in the manner of a wishbone, the cracker splits unevenly.[1] The split is accompanied by a mild bang or snapping sound produced by the effect of friction on a shock-sensitive, chemically-impregnated card strip (similar to that used in a cap gun).[1] One chemical used for the friction strip is silver fulminate,[2] which is highly unstable.
Assembled crackers are typically sold in boxes of three to twelve. These typically have different designs usually with red, green and gold colours. Making crackers from scratch using tissue paper and the tubes from toilet rolls is a common activity for children.
Crackers are typically pulled at the Christmas dinner table or at parties. In one version of the cracker tradition, the person with the larger portion of cracker empties the contents from the tube and keeps them. In another each person will have their own cracker and will keep its contents regardless of whose end they were in. Typically these contents are a coloured paper hat; a small toy, small plastic model or other trinket and a motto, a joke, a riddle or piece of trivia on a small strip of paper.[3] The paper hats, with the appearance of crowns, are usually worn when eating Christmas dinner. The tradition of wearing festive hats is believed to date back to Roman times, and the Saturnalia celebrations, which also involved decorative headgear.[1]We had so much fun opening the Christmas Crackers before dinner! Lots of fun and food had by all on Christmas Eve!
Christmas morning I got up and made homemade biscuits and gravy! After our tummy's were full, we opened Christmas presents sent from the Wassmers! We got so many nice gifts! I think Boyfriend was the most excite because he finally got to get into his stocking that was loaded with catnip!!!
After we opened presents we got ready and headed to St. Anne Country Club. Paul and Mike invited us to spend the holiday with the Napolitan and Beaudion families. They prepared a fabulous meal of lobster, prime rib, fish, veggies, ect...and the appetizers were to die for! If you wanted to golf they opened the course to family...it was to cold for us to golf. We did get in a couple of drives though! The kids were hoping to go sledding but the snow had melted a few days back when it was 60+degrees! (We spent that day raking leaves from around the pond!) The kids instead had a nerf fight! Big guns with foam bullets flying everywhere...inside and out! We had a fantastic day with friends and family...they made us feel like part of the clan! Thank you Mike and Paul for everything!
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!!!!
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