OK, phew. The tree is up, the family traditional Christmas-Eve dinner of Chinese food has been eaten. (Judging by the crowd outside Cheng Sho when we left, that’s a popular tradition here in Cambridge.)
OK, stockings full.
OK, making hard sauce. No sherry so we use cream and a little brandy. A vote for brown sugar turns into a vote for dark brown sugar because I don’t have light brown sugar. A vote for salted rather than unsalted butter means the result tastes a bit like popcorn. I’m not sure a normal family would accept the result as hard sauce, but a normal family also might not accept our background music choice of “Codfish Ball,” Bert and Ernie singing the L song.
Now the CD has ended. The kids drove home with their stockings–they’ll come back tomorrow at 9 to open “real” presents. I sit here blogging and resting my tired feet.
Isaiah’s promise sounds pretty good to me now: “They shall run, and not be weary. They shall walk, and not be faint.”
But I’d settle for “They shall blog, and not fall asleep at the keyboard….”
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!
6 responses so far ↓
1 Betsy Devine // Dec 28, 2003 at 9:24 pm
The “hard sauce” was excellent, and 4 days later I’m trying not to eat it. Maybe Halley would like me to bring some to her party, to go with the koolaid and chips?
2 Anonymous // Jan 4, 2004 at 3:49 pm
It sounds excellent! I don’t know what hard sauce is, but the butter and brown sugar had me.
Is it something you put over that Boston baked hard bread-pudding in a can I’ve heard about? Lol, I need to travel more. As I’m reading about you resting your weary feet and trying not to fall asleep at the keyboard, I broke into a empathetic smile and a little chuckle escaped. You poor, tired thing! Kids never seem to stop running, to they?
I’m glad you made it through the holidays.
3 Marie Devine // Jan 4, 2004 at 5:56 pm
Sounds like you all had a wonderful, though somewhat bloggy, Christmas. Missed you though I was really having a wonderful snowy time in Colorado. I managed to stay on my feet at all times, even while sliding on the white stuff down some biggggggggggggg mountains.
Peace on earth good will etc -Let those who ski ski and those who blog blog.
4 Kenneth Devine // Jan 7, 2004 at 10:16 am
I’m interested in your name, I am doing a search for a family tree. Where do your ancesters come from!!!
5 Kenneth Devine // Jan 7, 2004 at 10:16 am
I’m interested in your name, I am doing a search for a family tree. Where do your ancesters come from!!!
6 Kenneth Devine // Jan 7, 2004 at 10:16 am
I’m interested in your name, I am doing a search for a family tree. Where do your ancesters come from!!!