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Years ago, our oldest started dating someone whose family always insisted every holiday had to be with her family. Her parents were divorced and split the holidays, so we fell victim to their custody arrangement.
Not unexpected in hindsight, but that relationship eventually imploded. However, others started. We've essentially given up on having holidays on the day.
We had Thanksgiving on November 29th, and we were planning to have Christmas dinner on Saturday. Now there's an ice storm expected on Saturday, so we've shifted to Sunday.
The tree and decorations are set up. In a first for us, nothing is wrapped yet. I'll probably take care of that later today.
We've got some cooking to do, but we have time. I wasn't able to do grocery shopping until yesterday, and they didn't have a lot of things we need. We need to get more ingredients, but that has to wait until tomorrow.
For today, it's going to be a mostly relaxing, chill day.
The dinner we've planned:
We have a beef tenderloin roast and two cans of lump crabmeat to make into crabcakes. Focaccia bread, Caesar salad, mushroom soup, twice-baked potatoes, green beans, and possibly roasted pears and Brussels sprouts.
For dessert Christmas cookies including meringues, and I'm planning on making a chocolate cream roll.