It's always been a tradition in my family to enjoy a nice big bowl of chili on Christmas Eve along with other snacky goodies. This usually takes place at my Grandma's house, but this year it was just the four of us. With me not feeling too well yet, Kevin thought he would make the chili this year and instead of a plain old recipe, he whipped out the ol' Jamie Oliver America book and decided to make Chili Con Carne.
Now while it was good, we ended up with a lot left over. I still had no appetite for anything and I think I ate too many shrimp cocktail ahead of time so I didn't eat much and the kids were having no part of it. They liked the snacky foods too much as well.
Instead of getting to go to Christmas Eve service and then the pub, we enjoyed a quiet evening at home. One big tradition at Christmas time in England is the presenting of various pantomimes, which are outrageous plays put on where the audience participates and the characters are all mixed up. Most of the time you go to a live show during the holidays, but all night they showed some on TV and we watched one about Aladdin. We and the children were all quite entertained.
We admired our Christmas tree which had quite a few gifts actually since Grandma and Grandpa Dea brought over pressies in October along with ones from Uncle Ryan and Aunt Lindsay that were brought back in October after Casey's wedding...plus there seemed to be quite a few for mommy and daddy for some reason or another under there.
The kids were getting quite anxious for Santa to come so they got their cookies out on our special Santa plate along with some milk and a big ol' carrot for Rudolph. Time for bed as Santa only comes when children are sleeping!!!
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