Christmas eve, we went to see the progress Kate & Matt have made on finishing their basememt. Then we made bourbon balls, scotch balls, and buckeyes with T and Meg. Then we threw together a ton of appetizers for the vwhole family (shrimp cocktail, panko fried shrimp, jalapeno cream cheese poppers, cheese sticks, bagel bites, onion rings, and sausage cheese dip) before launching into several vicious games of Black Queen.

Christmas morning, T fixed breakfast (heated up some frozen pastries and scrambled eggs) and then around 10, Kate showed up with a big pan of monkey bread. Yum!

Christmas dinner (aka: lunch) was a joint effort: ham (John), 24 hour salad (me), deviled eggs (me), hash brown casserole (Kate), green bean casserole (Meg), spinach casserole (me), rolls (me), and yellow cake (me) with caramel sauce (John).

We ate.... and then y'all I'm not joking, every danged one of us fell asleep for over an hour! Lol! Thankfully we'd opened presents beforehand.

After the nap, Kate, Matt & Owen headed home to prep for and cook up a taco dinner for Matt's family and T and Meg headed back towards Lville because Meg has to work tomorrow.

John did good throughout it all. Thank God for our local doc!!! He was able to participate AND ENJOY all the festivities. Now we're both whipped and ready for bed!