Last week when I was off, Mom was hard at work baking Christmas cookies. She made her usual cookies and will put together some new creations, including lemon bars. She also made her raspberry thumbprints, with the jam she bought at Moo Echo in Somerset. When she ran out of raspberry jam, she used some apricot filling and that tasted just as good. She’s working apricot rolls and nut rolls that were always a staple of my paternal grandmother at the holidays.
This holiday isn’t as chaotic as it was last year for our family. We’re not making trips to Children’s to visit Benny, like I did last year a week before Christmas. My aunt has a tree up in her house for the first time since 2022. We’re past the COVID-ravaged Christmases of 2020 and 2021, when our plans were to stay home and stay safe.
I still have a lot of holiday specials and movies on my list to watch. Monday, I watched Elf and, Saturday night, keeping warm under my blanket, I enjoyed the Polar Express. If I wasn’t full from dinner and all the food I ate at club officer training, I’d have poured myself a big cup of hot chocolate. I want to watch the Christmas Story Sequel and the original too. I missed watching the Santa Clause last holiday so I’d like to watch it. Like last year, I’ll wait to watch Christmas Vacation and Home Alone until a few days before Christmas.
Charlie Brown Christmas can only be seen on Apple TV, if you have the subscription. To me, that’s a crock of shit and I hope they get a lump of coal in their stocking and a flaming bag of dog feces. It’s a classic that should be on network TV, and fines should be handed out if it’s not. Rant over.
I’ve played my share of Christmas music since the middle of November. It either helps or it doesn’t that my place of employment has had holiday tunes playing since midnight on Thanksgiving. The hustle and bustle and the struggle is real this holiday season but, two weeks from tonight is Christmas Eve.
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