A Pause for Christmas…..

I do have one more segment to do about the Australia trip, but I want to take a pause for Christmas thoughts. I had intended to post yesterday and somehow the entire day slipped away without me doing so. I had delayed in Christmas baking, so there was the sharing of stockings, then making brunch, then clean-up to have room for baking, then cookies for hubby to take to the office today, then the little apple pie so the tradition of him having apple pie wasn’t broken, then get the appetizer ready to take to our friends where we were having a great Christmas dinner. Oh yes, and multiple telephone calls to and from family. That would be where the day went among good food, plenty of wine and laughter.

I’ve procrastinated on several things that I really must take care of today and figure out leftovers management in the refrigerator with a variety of items that aren’t usually in the fridge. The brie in pastry can be for the big New Year’s Eve dinner we always do and the remaining seafood stew should be for tonight. The chocolate cake will go somewhere – either with a friend for her and her roommates to enjoy or down to the office tomorrow. The batch of fruit will become smoothies and a nice ragout sauce will take care of some of the other stuff.

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas in whatever form you chose to enjoy. Our son and daughter-in-law arrive the 28th for a few days and so my catching up time will be a bit compressed. Ah well, maybe if the elves aren’t too busy at the moment, a couple of them could pop around and give a hand.

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