Christmas Eve Bash


Looks like Christmas is here well a few days away. In our family we celebrate all together along with friends on Christmas Eve then each individual family celebrates with their own family on Christmas day, so it’s only two days away for me. I want to say wow it came so fast this year but the reality is is that it took exactly the same amount of days as it does year after year. It just seems quicker perhaps because I’m an adult and the retail push each year to throw the season up on the shelves earlier and earlier.

Between adults and various aged children running in and out of my sister’s home, adults displaying their culinary artistry and eating and drinking ourselves silly; we spend hours unwrapping tons of gifts usually crashing into Christmas wee hours of the morning. Each year we all say we’re going to cut back both on food and gifts but that never seems to happen and during the Christmas Eve bash all the expense and worry over what to make and what to buy as gifts fade away and a good time and memory is made.

   I had for quite some time wore my Bah Humbug jacket, not putting up a tree or wanting such a large gathering on Christmas eve, longing for a somewhat quieter Sit down get together without 30 people and kids talking and ranting at once. For some people a quiet dinner and a subdued opening of gifts on the actual day is a yearly thing. There was a brief time in my life where that did happen and I remember it being kind of empty and lonely. Yes, it does get noisy and confusing at our Christmas Eve Bash and I often pop a couple Advil’s before going to bed but I  all ways have a good time.

   At the last moment I ended buying gifts for those I declared on Thanksgiving I was not going to buy for and I did set up a tree with lights and I will be cooking and baking so something breathed a Christmas spark in me this year. All the fuss and flutter that goes into this event is taxing but very worth it

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