1. Carol, Paul, Zoe, Christy, Molly, and I kicked off Christmas Day together at the Roberts' house with breakfast (oven pancakes and link sausage) and a couple hours or so of exchanging gifts. I came home with pickles, cookies, socks, gloves, books, a sibling outing calendar, and a Trader Joe's gift card. I hope I didn't forget anything.
2. I returned home tired, happy that I had done so much food preparation yesterday for our two days of Christmas celebration. All I had to do until five o'clock was cut up vegetables and slice a Harry and David's summer sausage and put what pieces of food I could on a platter and the rest in a bowl.
Gibbs seems to have fully adjusted to Debbie's temporary absence and we had some high quality time together. He's found a human home, with Debbie away, on my lap.
It's awesome.
Copper isn't getting as much of my attention as he's used to, but he's being a good sport, handling his time alone like a champ.
3. Christy hosted a clam chowder dinner at five o'clock and Carol, Paul, Zoe, Christy, Molly, and I gathered in her living room for some smoked oysters on saltine crackers and a cocktail (I drank fizzy water). We all grazed the vegetable plate I brought and before long plunged into Christy's pot of clam chowder complimented with French bread. Christy fixed dessert bars and gave everyone a nice range of choices for a Christmas-y after dinner drink.
We all joined in and played a trivia game, Before or After, to close out our chowder feed. Zoe read two events from the past and we were to say whether we thought the first event occurred before or after the second.
It was a lot of fun, stimulated fun discussion, and was an invigorating way to end a Christmas Day full of gifts, food, and being together.
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