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the traditional Christmas Eve buffet:

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  • homemade whiskey-brown sugar applesauce

  • crackers/cheese/sausage

  • vegetables and dill dip

  • Swedish meatballs

  • mini pigs in a blanket

  • tortilla rollups

  • sherbet punch

  • Oreo truffles

  • Russian teacakes

  • shortbread

  • candy cane cookies

  • gingercakes

  • peanut butter blossoms

I am now enjoying the traditional food coma while P and I watch Love Actually. He’s never seen it before. I feel like a terrible wife.

At some point we will open the traditional Christmas Eve gifts (Mrs. Claus always gets to the house before Santa does and brings us new holiday pajamas), put the presents under the tree, and crash.

Tomorrow will be stockings, then breakfast (baked eggs, sausage, pound cake with strawberry preserves, and sparkling grape juice), then opening presents during the commercial breaks of the Disney Christmas parade.

I adore holiday traditions.

I hope you’re all having marvelous holiday evenings! And you should tell me what your traditions are!

Holiday movie and baking time!

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Today it’s time to bake all the things! And cook everything for the traditional Christmas Eve buffet, including the Swedish meatballs! (No, we’re not Swedish…but we’ve always had Swedish meatballs on Christmas Eve, ever since I was a wee little Caitlin.)

And I have a whole stack of holiday movies- well, what I consider holiday movies. Little Women, Mary Poppins, the first Narnia movie (I have the four-disc special edition set…), The Santa Clause, A Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart, Elf, Love Actually, The Hogfather, and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.

And I might toss in some Disney princess movies, because says special holiday time than a Disney princess.

I’m odd.