Happy Christmas Eve!
I'm waiting for my turn in the shower. No rush because we don't have to be out the door until 4, which gives me almost 2 hours to finish getting ready.
Gifts are already packed and ready to take to the car.
Food is ready for final packing when it's time. The nacho cheese sauce in the crock pot will be swaddled in towels in a laundry basket. The dessert and fudge will go from the refrigerator into an insulated bag to keep them cool. Bottle of chocolate sauce is on top of the dessert pan to reduce the chance that I'll forget to take it. Tortilla chips are in the bag with the gifts.
I'm taking the packaging from the ingredients for the dessert for DNiece to read over and make sure I didn't miss anything that DGNiece cannot have. She is extremely sensitive to gluten as well as other food allergies, but she specifically asked if I could make the recipe in a version she could have because everyone else talked about how much they liked it at Thanksgiving. She is having good results since they diagnosed the allergies -- she's several inches taller this year and is no longer so painfully thin -- but it is a lot of work for both the girl and her mom to be extremely vigilant about avoiding the foods that are no longer safe for her to eat.
My knitting project bag is with my purse. I'm lucky that I can knit in the car without having motion sickness.
The trade-off for not rushing around today is that a lot of things just didn't get done.
No cards mailed again this year. I didn't finish sewing my new top in time to wear to the party, so I'll be wearing things they've all seen before (which no one will care at the party, but it will be obvious in DSis's photos). Once again I will be starting a new year with the house looking so awful that we couldn't invite anyone over.
On the other hand, if we had wanted to host the family party I wouldn't have had it at our house anyway because we don't have enough bathrooms for a crowd. I would rent the room at the library and take decorations there. We have a patron who has done that every Thanksgiving for several years, and she loves that the room is clean when she arrives and is easy to clean up after her party.
Christmas music: I still like Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Mannheim Steamroller. Pentatonix has nice versions of The Little Drummer Boy and Carol of the Bells. Weird Al Yankovich has a new Christmas song that says everything in only 20 seconds.
Blessedw2 ~ I love your song.
Harmony ~ You have a smart DGSon!