Merry Christmas!
As kids, Sabriena and Shaina opened presents on Christmas Eve, as Shaina and her brother typically went to their Dad’s for Christmas Day, and for the longest time we kept this tradition up. A few years back, we opted to skip it, opening presents Christmas morning instead, but Duncan never quite got out of the “I don’t have to wake up early” mode and thus it’s always a pretty chill affair.
This year was no difference, we had breakfast, coffees, and sat around until he got up, then we opened up presents. Everyone had a great time, I got a bunch of neat T-shirts, a new mouse mat, and the Amiga RGB cable I bought myself. Consequently, I sat around Christmas Night and played Cannon Fodder and Lemmings for several hours.
Anyway, at around noon we started cooking the fingerfoods we packed the fridge with yesterday, which was quite the project management operation - we sorted everything out in descending order of cooking time, figured out what had to go where (for example we steamed the Dim Sims and such), and had everything on the table. I can’t recall if anyone was brave enough to try the party pies, which is rather disappointing.