Christmas!
May you, your family, and friends have a wonderful Christmas day!
I had a really great Christmas Eve. Left for church at 1:45 to practice before the 3:15 service. Practice went pretty well. Good thing we practiced though. 
The time in between practice and service was really nice. I had a nice talk with one of the guys I sing with. We talked about our families’ traditions at Christmastime. We listened to the flutes and piano practice their pre-service gathering music. I listened to them before every service, beautiful music never gets old.
I was actually a little nervous with the first service. Something about the excitement of Christmas, maybe? Thus, when we got to the part where I needed to read the beginning of the Christmas story, I stumbled over Quirinius. And then almost completely flubbed Galilee and Judea. *sigh* I completely know those words. I’m not sure that I’ve said them all that much, but I think saying them in front of people is always harder. Oh well. I got Galilee and Judea right on the 2nd service and by the 3rd service I got Quirinius too. The minister wished me Merry Christmas as I was leaving after the 3rd service and we laughed about how I finally got it on the 3rd try. *grin*
Today, we’ll start with cinnamon rolls and presents. Later today, we’ll have our traditional meal of dill pickle doobers, ham, mashed potato casserole, green bean casserole, and biscuits. I’ve still got some cranberry/pineapple/raspberry jello that I saved for today too. It should be great!
Funny enough, HB was telling one of the chefs at work about the mashed potato casserole sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas. And the chefs who cook for Christmas dinners for shelters and such in MN decided they were going to make mashed potato casserole this year! They got big donations of cream cheese – which was the main stumbling block. So, HB went in yesterday and he helped make a huge vat of mashed potato casserole. He said they used a pound of onion flakes!
I watched some Hallmark Christmas movies last night while he was out cooking. There was a really funny one on this year called The Most Wonderful Time of the Year. I’m pretty sure it was new this year. It was really good.
Well, the cinnamon rolls are ready, and they are too gooey to type and eat, so I’ll be signing off here.
Merry Christmas!
Squirl says:
Hey, anybody can stumble over words in public. I’ll bet it came off great!
Merry Christmas!
Jenski says:
Sounds like a great Christmas! Hope the day was great, even after the cinnamon rolls were gone.
The music at your church sounds great.
What are dill pickle doobers??
Merry Christmas!
Danielle says:
ah, I’ve posted about t he doooooooooooooooobers in the past, but I wasn’t sure who would remember them and who wouldn’t. They are dill pickles (small) smeared in cream cheese and then wrapped in dried beef. You slice them like pinwheels and eat them as an appetizer. My family has made them as long as I can remember. A couple years ago, when I went to the state fair, there was a stand for “Pickle dogs”. Evidently, the idea of a meat and cream cheese wrapped pickle is common in the midwest. At this booth, the cream cheese smeared pickles were wrapped in pastrami. I also saw them on an appetizer menu at a bar/restaurant recently. I think they were called Auntie’s potluck pickles (or something like that).
yuuuuuuuuuuuuum.
As I’m eating them, I always think I should make them some other time of the year too, but then I think leaving them for special occasions makes them more special. If you decide to try one of these, make sure you dry the pickle off really well first. that is the critical part.