8Tevet/25 December, 2009
Dec. 25th, 2009 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bearshortyAfter a restless night it was time to face Christmas. Christmas actually feels like a very relaxing day and I was doing my best to ignore palpitations and enjoy the day.
And the day starts with a very special Christmas breakfast. When Bear was a kid and he woke up early before anyone else and couldn’t open presents yet, one year he decided to pass the time by making pancakes for all. That became his thing on Christmas. When I started joining his family for the holiday I, of course, helped. Over the years it became my job to make scrambled eggs, since it is my specialty, and I also make turkey sausage links and sometimes bacon. Bear is in charge of the delicious pancakes. I just love soaking it all in syrup: the pancakes, the eggs and the sausage (I don’t eat bacon). It is a nice and delicious tradition.
After his parents left to visit his Grandma, Bear and I had some time to exchange our presents without an audience and it was a nice quiet time just for the two of us. I got him “Elmo Saves Christmas” and “Garfield collection,” a Nine Inch Nails CD and “Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales.” He got me a “3D Tower Bridge Puzzle,” “Star Trek” DVD (the latest movie) and a rubber ducky in a Christmas outfit (I sort of collect different yellow ducks, I have a Space Shuttle ducky from Kennedy Space Center and a cruise ducky and a pirate ducky). Part Two of presents will come on New Year morning since we split our presents in two to accommodate mutual holiday traditions.
After a quick lunch and picking up Bear’s sister and her boyfriend and boyfriend’s daughter we went to visit Grandma too. At the old people home where she lives we also met up with Bear’s brother and his significant other. We sort of took over a big room with a tree and had a bit of opening presents. His Grandma Lina is 92 and her memory is not what it used to be but it was nice for all of us to visit her together.
After we gathered back at the house we had the leisurely ritual of opening presents one by one which last for a few hours since there are lots of people. The joke gift this year was Killing Zombies game from ThinkGeek and we all took turns shooting zombies from a toy rifle (with a laser).
My Christmas Loot:
3D Puzzle of Tower Bridge
“Star Trek” DVD
Rubber ducky
“American Gods” by Neil Gaiman. (which I really really wanted)
“Encounter with Tiber” by Buzz Aldrin (a sci-fi book)
CDs of “Battlestar Galactica” music for Seasons One and Two
CD of Opera stuff
Mini photo album for 20 pictures, very pretty
Bulky and heavy black sweater that was a bit large too
After the presents came the Christmas dinner and then desert too. After dinner Bear and I watched “Elmo Saves Christmas” and “Garfield Christmas” and that put an end to a very fine Christmas Day.
And the day starts with a very special Christmas breakfast. When Bear was a kid and he woke up early before anyone else and couldn’t open presents yet, one year he decided to pass the time by making pancakes for all. That became his thing on Christmas. When I started joining his family for the holiday I, of course, helped. Over the years it became my job to make scrambled eggs, since it is my specialty, and I also make turkey sausage links and sometimes bacon. Bear is in charge of the delicious pancakes. I just love soaking it all in syrup: the pancakes, the eggs and the sausage (I don’t eat bacon). It is a nice and delicious tradition.
After his parents left to visit his Grandma, Bear and I had some time to exchange our presents without an audience and it was a nice quiet time just for the two of us. I got him “Elmo Saves Christmas” and “Garfield collection,” a Nine Inch Nails CD and “Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales.” He got me a “3D Tower Bridge Puzzle,” “Star Trek” DVD (the latest movie) and a rubber ducky in a Christmas outfit (I sort of collect different yellow ducks, I have a Space Shuttle ducky from Kennedy Space Center and a cruise ducky and a pirate ducky). Part Two of presents will come on New Year morning since we split our presents in two to accommodate mutual holiday traditions.
After a quick lunch and picking up Bear’s sister and her boyfriend and boyfriend’s daughter we went to visit Grandma too. At the old people home where she lives we also met up with Bear’s brother and his significant other. We sort of took over a big room with a tree and had a bit of opening presents. His Grandma Lina is 92 and her memory is not what it used to be but it was nice for all of us to visit her together.
After we gathered back at the house we had the leisurely ritual of opening presents one by one which last for a few hours since there are lots of people. The joke gift this year was Killing Zombies game from ThinkGeek and we all took turns shooting zombies from a toy rifle (with a laser).
My Christmas Loot:
3D Puzzle of Tower Bridge
“Star Trek” DVD
Rubber ducky
“American Gods” by Neil Gaiman. (which I really really wanted)
“Encounter with Tiber” by Buzz Aldrin (a sci-fi book)
CDs of “Battlestar Galactica” music for Seasons One and Two
CD of Opera stuff
Mini photo album for 20 pictures, very pretty
Bulky and heavy black sweater that was a bit large too
After the presents came the Christmas dinner and then desert too. After dinner Bear and I watched “Elmo Saves Christmas” and “Garfield Christmas” and that put an end to a very fine Christmas Day.
