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The Chimeys were Hung by the Stockings with Care
Soooo…
Two years ago Santa got homemade cookies, my family got an amazing Christmas Eve dinner, Christmas breakfast and Christmas dinner.
My ducks were in a nice tidy row with neatly folded corners and perfectly coordinated and tied ribbon.
Last year things went downhill slightly, with all the vomit and sickness and SO TIRED pregnancy that was going on. Cookies were still homemade, presents neatly wrapped but dinners and breakfast were a little more…relaxed.
This year? Well…
We nixed our old tradition of a fancy seafood dinner on Christmas ever since it was expensive and I was really the only one who enjoyed it (read: I ended up being short order cook for the other two people in the house.) This year we are going to bed full of Indy’s finest Chinese takeout. I remember taking a poll last year about traditional Christmas Eve dinners and Chinese takeout topped the list, I see why now.
Tomorrow will involve a honey baked ham, cinnamon rolls (not from scratch like two years ago, sorry guys), green beans and fruit salad. If I’m feeling really ambitious I’ll make my candied nuts, of only to be able to make warm nut jokes all day long. I wrapped all the presents a week ago, Cody has a few things hiding at his office that we’re going to stick bows on tonight and things seem to be…under control.
Vivi and Addie are safely tucked in bed in matching Christmas jammies (that I did not get a picture of…graarg) and Addie has strict orders not to come downstairs until we say she can.
I mean, I got everything right?
Oh, one more confession.
Cookies for Santa.
I normally pride myself on knowing we have the best cookies on the block for the big guy, this year? I burnt the refrigerated dough cookies (I was previously engaged in alternate Holiday activities.)
Thankfully we still have a bag Hostess Devil’s Food Donettes in the bag and a bottle of Christmas sprinkles. Utilizing the tea party method of donette decorating, our house will be the only one where Santa gets festively decorated chocolaty donettes.
Hey, it’s better than burnt cookies.
If the cinnamon rolls meet some certain demise in the morning? DONETTES FOR ALL AND TO ALL A GOODNIGHT.
Baby’s first Christmas? Bring it on.
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Disclosure: Many thanks to Hostess for sponsoring this post, saving my hide and for providing me and family, and Santa, with a supply of Donettes. Find out more about Hostess Donettes at their Facebook fan page.
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2 Comments
Lauren commented on Dec 25 11 at 11:23 amDoesn’t it go…the stockings were hung by the chimney with care?Unless it’s some joke I didn’t catch…or you were tired when u wrote this post :)
caseymullins commented on Dec 26 11 at 9:45 pmI was so tired when I wrote it that the title came out wrong and I just kept it that way to prove my overwhelmed-edness. :)
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