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Diabetes & Endocrine System | Last Active: Jan 10, 2020 | Replies (317)Comment receiving replies
@contentandwell We just finished our Christmas dinner. I had a restaurant cook the turkey. I fixed the rest. I bought a pumpkin pie for dessert and made some cookies. We had Christmas today, and tomorrow we'll celebrate our son's birthday. He was born on Dec. 27th. So we always have Christmas, then on the 26th take all Christmas down and put up birthday so that he could separate Christmas and his birthday. He lives six hours from us. So his drive is long and tedious. He gets weekends off, but that's not time to come---not worth it .His bosses are not interested in getting people off for holidays. He arrived about 1:00 on Sat. We ate a late lunch and supper. Today is a "normal" Christmas Day for us. Tomorrow we'll have birthday. He always asks for my spaghetti, I'll prepare a tossed salad and cheese bread, and his birthday cake and ice cream for dessert. Then he'll leave early Christmas Day to drive the six hours back home. So it is a whirlwind. It's still good, but we miss him. It's just the three of us.
Relax and enjoy your activities.
Carol
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@retiredteacher It sounds like a nice time with him. Our daughter is about 5 hours away, can be more, can be less, depending on the traffic getting in and out of NYC and coming through CT. We plan to go there in January and are considering taking the train out of Boston.
Funny, my kids too always want my pasta and meatballs. When we were visiting our son in Denver in October I made a huge pot of it so he could freeze some and they had some on Friday night. I generally make it when they are home but we are much busier this year than usual, so I may not be able to. I always make some spiralized zucchini for myself to avoid the pasta.
Mmmm, pumpkin pie, love it. I will make some cookies too, about three different types probably.
I hope you have leftover turkey to enjoy, and that he enjoys his birthday. It's hard to resist at least a sliver of birthday cake. I was in the store today and saw so many goodies but kept myself from buying them because it would add to my temptations.
This is not the first time for us either when we celebrated Christmas on a day other than December 25. When my son was first in CA he was a waiter at the Beverly Hills Hotel so he had to be there for Christmas and left that morning. We celebrated the day before. The Inn/restaurant that we both worked at for a while closed on Christmas day so that was not a problem.
Heading to the club very soon. Gotta do it.
JK