[Magdalen] Happy Christmas!

[Jay Weigel]

It's a drippy, gray Christmas Eve morning here, and I'm preparing to
concoct some cranberry salsa to go with the bacon-wrapped beef roast which
will go in the slow cooker tomorrow. S/O has just put together a giant
fruit salad and later I will make a cranberry-apple cake and brew a pot of
chili, which is my traditional Christmas Eve dish because it can be eaten
on the run. I have to go out this afternoon and pick up the grocery
delivery. This evening I will go to the candlelight service at my adopted
Lutheran church...first time for me...and then come home and roast some
chestnuts which we got from the online grocery last week, also a first.

On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Lesley de Voil <lesleymdv at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Well, it's now 1.33am, and Christmas is well and truly rung in and sung
> in. Our kiddies service went off with nary a slipped halo nor  a desperate
> child wanting to use the security blanket wrapped around the baby Jesus(who
> ended up on the floor last year.)  Nobody burnt themselves  on the votive
> candles during the Midnight service. In the morning we will welcome the
> Archbishop(since we are technically his parish church, he celebrates and
> preaches here twice per year.) I at last finished all my handpainted
> Christmas cards and prepared some of the cold dishes for tomorrow. I'm
> looking forward to a quieter day on Friday when we might get a storm.
> Best  Wishes to all