random thoughts – Day 2,109 (Thursday) – christmas day with dinner

There was a Christmas surprise at 3:00 a.m. and it wasn’t Santa on the roof. It was the smoke and carbon monoxide detector outside the bedroom (the with the two-day old battery) chirping every 30 seconds. It was the last straw. I left my nice warm bed, fetched the stepstool and climbed it, pressed the release on the clip and removed the offending nuisance from the wall. Noise solved. Quiet returned to the house and I returned to bed.

Christmas dinner!

When I got up at 7:00, it was time to make the stuffing for the turkey dinner at Mom’s. At 9:00 I walked next door to deliver a portion of the stuffing to go into the bird. The rest would be baked in my oven for dinner. 

The morning was spent waiting for it to be time to put the stuffing in the oven. During the wait, there was the eating of Christmas Eve party leftovers. Noodle kugel for breakfast? Yes, please! Follow it up with a sausage and cheese won ton cup? Definitely! Maybe a few pieces of baked things? For sure, for sure. Oddly, by dinner time, I was hungry, which was good. It would have been awkward not eating at dinner.

Mince pie!

Christmas dinner at Mom’s was fun. There were seven of us talking and eating. Turkey dinner was followed by a home baked mince pie.  It was all very delicious.

Later, at home, it was movies on Prime and lounging on the couch. Except for the early awakening by the annoying chirps, it was another great day.