My family's Christmas Eve traditions are many. There are certain foods we eat, certain movies we watch, certain activities done in a certain order. Even though we aren't home with Dad, from whom I get my obsessive qualities, it is still necessary that the traditions are observed. Christmas Eve morning is free...we can do whatever we want. Somewhere around mid-afternoon, snack preparation begins. We don't eat a real meal during the day but at night we feast on finger foods...pigs-in-a-blanket, lil' smokies in grape/chili sauce, Mom's homemade chip dip, cheese and beef sausage with crackers, shrimp and cocktail sauce, Gram's sugar cookies and this year...a couple of new things...cheese crisps with garlic and chocolate stuffed croissants. Yummy, delicious...all washed down with an ice cold Pepsi served in a wine goblet.
Before eating, we go to our church's candlelight service and are welcomed home to the smell of lil' smokies simmering in the slow cooker. We load up our plates and settle down for several movies - the same movies every year, watched in the same order. Charlie Brown's Christmas, How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the old cartoon), two short Disney cartoons, and Mickey's Christmas Carol. Now that we are older we have added National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. We'll go to bed late....AND THEN....
CHRISTMAS MORNING! but that's an entry for another day.
This year I had lots of help preparing our snacks and lots of help eating everything.
Merry Christmas Eve!
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