Wednesday, December 23, 2020

12.23.20 - Joy status: looking forward to Christmas day

Despite having to change all of our original plans, I'm happy and relieved to realize I'm really looking forward to Christmas Day.

In order to keep Christmas feeling special, we are still going to dress up the kids. Calvin doesn't care, but the girls are excited about their fancy Christmas dresses - Jane has a velvety green one, and Clara has a chiffon kind of red one. I'm sure I will get lots of pictures.

I also went ahead and planned a menu, which is saying something for me because I really basically never cook. For food ideas I asked what everyone was doing for Christmas dinner in a group for parents of kids with celiac, and I was very impressed and slightly intimidated by the many ideas people gave me. We are going to do Santa pancakes, which I learned are basically pancakes where you use strawberries and whipped cream to make a Santa hat and beard. For dinner I'm getting a Costco chicken (so delicious, so easy), and then I'm going to make a Brussels sprout cheese bake and a cauliflower parmesan "bread" with marinara dipping sauce. Also planning to make cranberry bliss bars for dessert--for some reason cranberries just seem very holiday appropriate. The girls, especially Clara, really like to "help" me cook, and prepping for an end-of-day meal will make the day feel more like an event.

On top of that we have never before done the thing where the kids wake up Christmas morning to a bunch of presents that weren't there the night before. I think they will flip.

It's going to be a good day.

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