Tues 24 Dec

Merry Christmas Eve! Definitely an odd year with Grandma gone and the prospect of Christmas Day being just Dad and me. Didn't get around to baking cookies or butterhorns, though I haven't ruled out Thursday to do this. I want to make Tom N Jerry's for this evening after church at least. And on top of it all, I need to start popping Cold-Eze again as I feel the possibility of a cold coming on. Oh, joy. Good news! Michael and Taylor are going to join Bob and me for Christmas celebrations tomorrow! They will come for capon Christmas dinner and we will do gifts with them in the afternoon. I believe he will not be able to join us on Friday, so that will be our "Christmas" with you. We get to do the whole shebang twice! Hartman brunch was excellent as usual. Pete was there as well as Eddie. We finished by playing the Charades game we gave them. A little shopping for last minute things and home now to bake a cranberry pudding pie, bake sweet potatoes, possible cranberry relish. Food: 8:00 am 1 c Trader Joe's multigrain flaxseed cereal, 1/2 c light original soy milk, 1/2 grapefruit, 99 g blackberries, coffee 11:30 am Scrambled eggs, rutabaga hash, fruit salad, homemade cinnamon rolls, fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice, coffee 3:45 pm Brownie 6:15 pm Oyster stew, 8 mini crackers w/smoked salmon spread, garden salad 6:40 pm Schwan's peppermint stick ice cream w/homemade hot fudge sauce 10:45 pm 4 oz egg nog w/vanilla cafe rum Exercise: 6:50-7:45 am DWTS DVD