Christmas

[chelseagirl]

We weren't able to travel to either family, so we spent a nice quiet Christmas at home. M. did the cooking -- a lovely appetizer/light lunch of shrimp, smoked salmon and avocado, and a prawn curry with roasted sweet potatoes for dinner. Oooh, and we finally dragged out the fondue pot we were given way back as an engagement present, and melted chocolate, then dipped strawberries in it. Some nice prezzies, but we've had to really scale back this year -- Martin's mum sent us lots of little things so we had things to open anyhow!

The tree is *sans* ornaments -- with Scorpy the mad kitten, we'd be pulling them out from under the furniture for months afterwards, so we just did lights, some garland (apparently called tinsel in England), and the star at top (kidnapped from my parents last year when they came down for Christmas). Still very nice and festive.

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[silme.livejournal.com]

We do have a tree. It's just like last year's -- a very tiny baby one in a pot. It will go out into the garden next month. :)

We have some ribbon on it, and a couple of ornaments (secular) I picked up. One is a pig with wings. On top is a witch Ian found in Burley, bought at a shop where Wiccans the shopkeeper knows are given a discount. :)

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Oooh, nice! If I had property, I'd definitely love to do a tree I could replant.
Well, so far Scorpy hasn't knocked ours over . . . so far, so good!

[silme.livejournal.com]

I can only deal with small bits of pine tree in the house because of my allergies. If we had a larger tree, I'd have to have the windows open to avoid sneezing all the time. :)

[mahari95.livejournal.com]

Ooohh... sounds like you had a lovely Christmas lunch and dinner. No manic cooking goose/saving goose fat/roasting potatoes in said goose fat and all the other craziness that ensues around Christmas eating. I actually broke down in tears last year because of the stress. So another reason this Christmas was so lovely... coffee and toasted panettone is so bloody easy to do! :D

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

I've never had a Christmas goose; even our UK family cooks a turkey, but luckily M. handled that at Thanksgiving!

Stress-free is the way to go, for the holidays. Christmas in Paris sounds just lovely.