The joy of eating plum pudding for Christmas dinner is not in the eating, but in the fire! We pulled the blinds shut, poured on the brandy and torched it! We have quite a show because we kept adding brandy because we couldn't see the fire at first.
The second photo is family photo (ach, do we HAVE to do this??) number two, taken before we went out for our annual Chinese Christmas Eve dinner.
To explain the tradition....
When we lived in Italy we had a wonderful, close chapel community. Probably for at least four years, maybe more, we had a Christmas fellowship dinner as a chapel community. The menu was set so we had a normal meal instead of "potluck" food. Afterwards we had our Christmas Eve service followed by dessert. By this time it probably was around 9pm. We drove home on absolutely deserted streets because every Italian was at home celebrating their Christmas Eve with family before going out to midnight mass. We then opened one present before going to bed.
When we moved to America our church didn't have a Christmas Eve service. We don't have any family living nearby, so we decided that we would go out for Chinese and then go to a local church's Christmas Eve service. That has continued since, and this was our 10th year!!! Only difference this year was that our church had an early Christmas Eve service. We went home after Chinese.
Now we drink champagne, eat panettone, open a present, and then watch "It's a Wonderful Life". Some of us get too tired before It's a Wonderful Life get over. Will and Linnea are our tradition watchdogs!
2 comments:
I have a couple of tradition watchdogs. Isn't funny how some of the traditions get started?
nice pictures! what a beautiful family!
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