Christmas Eve, Even Better

For many years we have celebrated our Christmas Eve with our dear friends the Tom’s. It works out perfectly since Lynn doesn’t cook and Logan likes to eat. When I run a menu idea by Lynn it really never matters what the main dish is. Her response is always the same, “I’ll just eat sides.” So I changed it up this year and made these delicious giant ribeye pork chops with a ginger pear and mustard sauce. I knew that Logan and the rest of us would love it.

The Tom’s came for dinner and before we sat down to dinner we had to retell old stories about Carter and Ellis, especially all the “Dear Mrs. Lange,” letters I would get from Ellis apologizing for something, which it turns out she was taking the fall for Carter. What a good friend Ellis is and always has been.

We had to eat dinner fairly quickly because we had church. When everyone raved about the pork Lynn decided she needed to try it. I thought lightening might strike our house because she never eats meat, unless I have hidden it in something.

Logan had to have a third serving, so we were running later than I wanted to get to church on Christmas Eve. We have regular seats at Church and all the every Sunday members know it, but on Christmas Eve you get a lot of visitors who can’t tell my butt indentation in my pew cushion. By some Christmas miracle, the church was practically full, except for our row. I asked our friends behind us if they had shooed people away and they laughed saying it just worked out that way.

I was so thankful to be in my normal seat because we had a soloist, the husband of our new Music Director and his performance was so powerful I burst into tears and could not stop crying. Carter felt the same way and taped a short segment, which hardly did it justice.

So many friends were at Church tonight and they all were congratulating Carter on her engagement. The most fun part were her childhood friends who are all now the nicest adults.

After church we returned home with the Tom’s for dessert and more stories. It was more fun and more joyous than even our best years. Ellis has just finished graduate school and is starting her new job in January, Carter got a promotion last month and got engaged. Everyone is happy which makes me so happy. And Lynn ate a little meat and liked it. Merry Christmas Everyone.