Christmas Eve

The kids, Andy and I spent today cleaning and cooking. My table is sort of set, the house is sort of clean, etc.

E is trying out a new salad this year for tomorrow's Christmas dinner - a caprese salad. She chopped the lettuce for it today and will assemble it tomorrow closer to dinner time.

Andy took all three (!) kids out to do some last-minute Christmas shopping this afternoon. I listened to Christmas music courtesy of Andy's new Amazon Echo and had a glass of wine while staring at the Christmas tree. Aaah!

Tonight we went to the candlelight Christmas Eve service at church. L was surprised to see her history teacher there; her grandmother is a church member. L did tell her hi during our "passing of the peace" and said it was weird. You know, a teacher out in public. How dare they leave the school.

After church I got a picture of the kids before they opened their traditional Christmas Eve present - new pajamas. And here they are in their new jammies:

L's pants have cats on them and, fittingly, she's holding Muffles. E's pants have penquins and B has plaid, as usual.