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Another Christmas Present for Me!

13 years ago

This Christmas season just keeps getting better and better. LOL First was my Christmas present to myself - my new fabulous washing machine and now the best Christmas present of all - I don't have to cook Christmas dinner this year!!! Yay for me.

My sister Lizzie will be having family Christmas dinner this year. I don't have to cook. She doesn't want anyone to bring anything either but of course I will bring Christmas baked goods.

The pressure is off. Last Christmas I was making the make ahead gravy early in the am when there was the knock on my door and a snow covered stranger was standing there telling me she was a neighbour and was locked out of her house. I invited her in and while I continued cooking she sat at my kitchen table and proceeded to put her make up on while waiting for someone to bring her a key (how brazen was she?)I had never even me her before but this year I won't be making make ahead gravy at 6 am. I will be in my bed sleeping.

The only other way Christmas can get any better is if my niece Meagen comes home for the holidays.

I will still cook a turkey breast between Christmas and New Year for sandwiches. I always have lots of company between those dates and hopefully Meagen will be staying here like when she was little.

Now I can just focus on baking my Christmas cookies. I just might make and decorate gingerbread men for my Great niece and nephews.

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Comments (8)

User
13 years ago
Way to go!
deemarie5500
13 years ago
What a wonderful gift to you!
Enjoy the holidays!
Dee
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Cherryfizz
Original Author
13 years ago
Thanks

I am happy my sister wants to do this. Before she moved to Saudi Arabia years ago she used to have Christmas dinner or at least brunch at her place and she would have everything decorated so nice and her table was so festive. She's a nurse so it is also nice she doesn't have to work this Christmas.

Now that I don't have to do Christmas I might plan on having a New Years day brunch.

Anne
carol_in_california
13 years ago
Anne, when are you going to England?
I am happy you don't have to cook Christmas dinner.
Have a great time with your family. Is this the sister who had breast cancer? How is she doing....sounds like she is doing very well.
Cherryfizz
Original Author
13 years ago
Carol, I've put England on hold until at least spring but if there is a federal election call I will most likely go in the summer. If I am away and the election is called I would have to come right home to do my job. That is the problem with our Parliamentary system - the party in power is always one house vote away from an election.

Both my sisters have had breast cancer. Lizzie had double breast cancer and was treated by the best doctors while living in Saudi Arabia. She has nerve damage in her neck from the radiation that affects the nerves in her hands and she has already lost quite a bit of hand function in both of them so she figures this will be the last Christmas dinner she will be able to cook on her own. My other sister Marjorie has had breast cancer twice - 2 different kinds in the same breast which she had removed last summer.

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Lindsey_CA
13 years ago
"there was the knock on my door and a snow covered stranger was standing there telling me she was a neighbour and was locked out of her house. I invited her in and while I continued cooking she sat at my kitchen table and proceeded to put her make up on while waiting for someone to bring her a key (how brazen was she?)"

I find myself wondering how she managed to have her makeup with her when she locked herself out of her house at 6:00 in the morning...
Cherryfizz
Original Author
13 years ago
LOL Lindsey, she was on her way to work and locked her keys in the car - she couldn't get into the house or into her car. She had her bag with her and her coke so while she was waiting for her boyfriend she sat and put her make up on. I couldn't even imagine drinking coke that early in the morning either but she said she didn't like coffee.

I wondered about the makeup too and she said she usually puts it when she gets to work. She leaves the house early because she worked in a nearby town.
bulldinkie
13 years ago
Me too...Thats when you find things you want, yesterday I bought an hour glass,nice one,Ialways wanted one go figure..

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