So, my Jelly pals, would you care to share your Christmas plans?

Scour the wasteland for scrap and canned dog food.

We are dull and quiet this year (yay!) and really glad about it. A few friends might drop in, here and there, but mostly my daughter and I will just be being together, a little food, a little wine, a goofy Christmas movie or two, watching the dog destroy a new toy.

I have a prime rib beef roast and mixed veggies. I will video call family. Also lurking in Fluther. Might add to my Amazon wish list.

Xmas with my wife tomorrow, we’ll exchange gifts and drink wine.
Xmas eve time with my side of the family, we’ll exchange gifts and drink wine
Xmas day time with my brother in laws family, we’ll drink beer around the fire pit
Back to work for a couple of days
Xmas with my wife’s side of the family. We’ll both want another drink after that.
Jan 1 my liver gets a long break.

Usually, I make one of the traditional dishes from my husband’s family, but he doesn’t want it, so I’m going to make whatever from our fridge that he is in the mood for on the 24th. I have a pork roast, ground beef, and tilapia. I also have pastas and various veggies.

Probably, we will go for Chinese on the 25th.

We will go to Rick’s dad’s.
Rick’s younger brother will cook and bring turkey. Everyone will bring sides. I’m going to try baking stuffing this year. Then we will have the gift exchange
Yep. Rick’s dad’s house.
Rick turned 67 on Dec 20.

Today was cookie making day where my wife, MIL, couple friends, my nieces, and daughter make oodles of holiday cookies. I came home from Christmas shopping to find batches of almond biscottis, peanut butter cookies, cranberry cookies, sugar cookies, and chocolate chip pretzel cookies.

Tomorrow I am wrapping gifts.

Christmas Eve is just us and a couple friends for a low key dinner.

Christmas Day we are having about ten people for dinner and games. We are making roast beef, eggplant parmesan, crab stuffed mushrooms, and veggies.

Then Wednesday, I’m getting an MRI. Yay.

Keep us updated @cookieman.

No plans, no place to go. Will stay in and have dinner with the sister. If it was a work day, I’d have to work but Tuesday I have no customers!

Spending time with my grandparents, aunt and uncle, and my cousins. Haven’t seen my cousins in a couple years so it’ll be good to catch up

My son, his wife and two kiddies will be here for presents. Our Christmas isn’t as merry as usual, because Sonny has been unemployed for four months now and is severely depressed.
I haven’t heard from either of my two adult grandsons who live near by, but they often drop in.

Quiet day with the family. Probably get up as usual…me first, the adult son next, then the wife, then the step daughter. Somewhere in there I will probably cook breakfast. Then we will open presents. Later, see a matinee at the theater…no movie picked out yet. Then steaks for dinner.

We had a mini Christmas with my uncles family last week. Today is FIL’s family dinner then grocery store, then pie-making, cleaning and Chiefs football. Tomorrow more cooking, games. Christmas is dinner at my house with the elders. With family in Cali, Fl, Belize and Japan, not a whole lot here at home but we make the best of it!

I would love to be getting up to turn on all the Christmas lights, put music on, and get dinner preparations started. Pot roast has become our Christmas meal of choice in recent years, rather than essentially repeating Thanksgiving. My husband makes the world’s best gravy.

Then while things simmer, sit down with my family and open the presents under the tree. Reconvene in the kitchen for final dinner preps. A nice meal around a festively set table with seasonal decorations, and pumpkin pie afterward. A quiet evening with new toys, books, or maybe a movie.

Instead, if we’re lucky, we’ll be visiting a family member in rehab, and it will not be our first institutional Christmas. If not, it may be another 911 day.

There is no hell like drug addiction.

I planned to be invited for dinner for free by those who celebrated Christmas haha, jk!. Actually, no, our family and most of the citizen here don’t celebrate Christmas. That should come as no surprise as I live in a country with the largest moslem population in the world (I just hope there’s no more church bombing at this time of the year).

Celebration at my parents’ house in the morning. My brother’s home from North Carolina, my sister and her kids are going to be here. There’s a ton of presents under the tree for 8 people. We’ll all be having dinner that evening too. I’ll be making a dish with celery root. :P We’ll be visiting grandparents the day after.

I’m working.

I baked bread today. It is cubed and drying for stuffing. I also simmered turkey necks for most of the day to make turkey stock for the stuffing, and turkey gravy.

Mmmmmm…stuffing.

Trying to duplicate how it comes out when I have a turkey to stuff it into cook. :/

My daughter ran away from home. I will be alone, and doing nothing at all for Christmas.

I have new neighbors, and they have very little as a result of a bad business deal. I do plan to offer some gifts, part of which are unused items, some are things my daughter left behind.

Oh, Patty_Melt. My heart goes out to you. I am so sorry.

My husband and I don’t celebrate Christmas. Well, he plays some of its music. But our children do Christmas, so if they want to come over, they do, and we save our Chanukah gifts to them for their Christmas days.

This year, my husband’s son and his family are coming here. They and my husband will be going out together on Christmas night, and I will be going to my daughter’s house, where my two children and their children will be.

This year may be turbulent; things may be said that will be regrettable. I will be guarded, because I want to talk about it all, but it’s just not the right thing, not the right time. I will try to stay calm, loving, and silent about the problem.