Despite a gallant show of resistance from my husband, my decision to have Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve this year prevailed. Of course, had I thought about the fact that I was working the day before Christmas Eve, I may not have been such a strong advocate of this idea, but it wound up being a significantly better idea than adding to the 2010 Christmas Day chaos! (post coming as soon as I have time to go through 100+ pictures) And actually, Nana and Grandmother did the vast majority of the side-dish cooking and Chris cooked the turkey in the "turkey tanning bed" so my stress was really focused on getting (and keeping) the house and myself presentable. The turkey turned out perfectly delicious! Two "test chickens" were tanned earlier in the week, both of which were dry, despite being cooked to the proper temperature. Guess the 3rd time was the charm for poultry tanning! We had a nice dinner but my idea of getting beautiful family photos taken while we were all dressed and looking decent was thwarted by the 2.5 foot tall dictator of the house. We DID get a good shot of Kendall and Nana, something we failed to get last year on Kendall's first Christmas (a faux pax for which I will feel guilty for a long time).
I am not a fan of this picture, but it was the best of about 10 attempts at a family picture.
We also got a couple of good pictures of me and Kendall (again, a rarity from Christmas 2009).
Kendall was uncooperative for any further pictures that evening. She went to bed on time after we read her Elf on the Shelf book to her for the last time this year. We explained that "Mick Elf" would not be here in the morning because he was returning to the North Pole with Santa (who she would NOT see as he would be here ONLY to bring her toys, and NOT to go near her or disturb her slumber). Santa came a bit later than I had planned due to the fact that "Santa" refused to even look at the instructions for putting together Kendall's trike until 8:30 that evening and one of the parts turned out to be "difficult" (and probably faulty but what was Santa going to do at that point?) and one of the necessary tools for the trike assembly was not readily available. This wouldn't have bothered me as much had "Santa" not taken the trike and hidden it from me (he actually took it to work with him) to keep me from attempting to put it together in a timely fashion (insert heavy sigh here). Anyhow, the trike was finished (albeit rickety and in need of further attention) by 11:30.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care ... and then removed promptly after pictures were taken so the dogs couldn't help themselves while we slept.
As an aside, note what is on the television. This household dutifully payed homage to the full 24 hours of "A Christmas Story," that TBS was kind (?) enough to provide.
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