December 25, 2005
christmas 2005
we've been sick... not just piddly sick but sicky sick... worst in 5 years sick... we're getting better. my ears can pop now... i guess that's called better. cheryl didn't seem to get as sick as me. i was in bed mostly until yesterday. i can now schlep to the sofa and sit there most of the day.
cheryl managed to get the tree down from the closet and we limited decorations to one small drawer of ornaments:
we missed christmas eve dinner with the family. we spent quite a while searching the net for a restaurant which would deliver burgers on christmas eve -- no luck. we ended up calling tong kiang and ordered a whole peking duck with little buns and some chow mein. it was good. we opened gifts late last night.
here's cheryl in her new sweaters from gung and popo:
here are some movies from rainier (movies are big and loading is slow):
- vickie wishing us a merry christmas (11.1 mb)
- debbie opening her gift (antique multi-level candle holder) (17.2 mb)
- noah riding his new motorbike (from his dad) (12.3 mb)
- mom opening her big surprise from dad (6.2 mb)
- dad opening his high tech flashlight (16.5 mb)
- vickie opening her rainproof pants (12.3 mb)
- dave, mika's boyfriend, opening his leather jacket (9.2 mb)
- mika opening her bookends (14.1 mb)
- debbie, wearing a bracelet mika made her and a star necklace noah gave to her
auntie arly dropped by tonight and we exchanged gifts, so we got to open gifts again today... always so much fun...
i roasted an organic turkey and made stuffing and gravy. the turkey and gravy were fine, the stuffing was too salty so i threw it out. we ate up auntie's cookies and candies for dessert. there was no christmas cookie baking for us this year and since we didn't get out to shop for the last minute things for christmas dinner, like the side dishes and the CRANBERRY SAUCE!!!, we'll have to make up for it when we're feeling better.
Posted by lesleeroberts at December 25, 2005 08:23 PM