1. Carol and Paul hosted a morning gift exchange at their house, accompanied by a simple breakfast featuring a fruit salad Christy brought and everything bagels that I brought along with cream cheese. Other Christmas sweets, cookies, chocolates, and other treats rounded out the board.
Christy, Zoe, Paul, Carol, and I took our food -- and I took a cup of coffee -- into the living room and we all had the pleasure of seeing what each of us gave to the others and had the pleasure of enjoying what we received. My gifts to family members were electronic, so they would be arriving in the afternoon in their email inboxes.
2. Back home after our morning get together, I got out the electric frying pan and cooked up two thin chicken breasts and four thighs. After they'd cooled down, I cut the meat into cube-ish pieces to take to Christy's for our get together at 5:00.
3. Our five o'clock gathering featured a Caesar salad bar with lettuce, salmon, chicken, anchovies, green olives, Parmesan cheese, dressing, and other options to add to our salads. Zoe made a delicious loaf of focaccia bread. Carol had poured out a bowl of nuts and bolts as an appetizer and Christy set out Christmas cookies for our dessert, including oatmeal cookies, a kind of cookie I love.
I was still pretty pumped nearly twenty-four hours later from having listened to the Lessons and Carols and the Messiah. I might have gotten a little carried away talking about them and might have carried on a bit too much about the world of Protestant churches, wondering why there are so many non-denominational churches and what makes them distinct from one another.
But, i guess this part of our Christmas conversation didn't occupy the entire night and we had fun talking about other things, too.
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