Early Christmas Eve Dinner

Christmas Eve, I would normally make Sean and I a huge dinner for just the two of us. I love having leftovers for days, don't you?

Any who, I would make dinner while Sean helped and then we’d stuff our faces, go for church service, open presents when we got home and then watch Christmas movies for the rest of the night while sipping hot chocolate topped with marshmallows.

Well, at late notice Sean’s mom asked us to host Christmas dinner so I decided I wasn’t going to cook two big meals in a row. Mostly for my thighs. So on Sunday, I made us our big meal.

And my sisters & nephew joined us. It wasn’t planned for them to be there and we don’t have as much leftovers but it definitely was much nicer to have them for dinner.

They wanted to know what the big occasion was and I explained what we normally did. Let just say they were thrilled to visit that day and my little sister said, “This feels like Thanksgiving”. And it did. Perfection.

{Corn & Broccoli} & {Mashed potatoes from scratch}

{Turkey and Stuffing with Dried Cranberries. Best stuffing ever!}

{My plate. I helped myself two three times!}

Now to figure what we will do on Christmas Eve. Hmm, maybe we'll go out to dinner and have someone else slave over for us in the kitchen.