Christmas Day

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Got up around 7 a.m., but skipped my exercises again so I could sear the beef roast and get them ready for the slow cooker.

After that, I got ready for the day, and then made a pear/apple cobbler, followed by a cherry pie for tomorrow's festivities.

Hubbie washed the dishes and bowls, and then Mother cut up celery, onions, and carrots for potato soup, to be made early tomorrow morning. Hubbie then peeled potatoes to boil for lunch.

The roasts were ready by 11:30, so Mother set the potatoes boiling and made gravy. She also put the squash in the oven. When the potatoes were cooked, I mashed them, and then heated the asparagus in the microwave, and sliced the locally-made bread.

Fruit salad that I'd made yesterday, and glasses of red wine completed the yummy meal, which we enjoyed with a background of Christmas music by Harry Connick, Jr., and Josh Groban.

After we put away the food and cleaned the kitchen following the meal, we played Skipbo for the rest of the afternoon. For supper, Hubbie and I had cold roast beef sandwiches, and Mother had chicken noodle soup.

We played several more games of Skipbo after supper, before Mother went home around 7:30 p.m. She was a little wobbly-legged, so Hubbie accompanied her to her house.

Later, we watched the 2009 unrated movie, "The Skeptic," starring Bruce Altman, Tom Arnold, and Tim Daly. A lawyer (Daly) inherits his aunt's Victorian home. He's a cynic, who doesn't believe in religion, much less the paranormal...but then he begins experiencing ghostly forces.

A white Christmas today? No. It spit snow a little this morning, but nothing stuck to the ground. Lots of folks were disappointed, but not us. Snow and ice tend to cause problems, like power outages in our state, so we don't yearn for it.