Christmas Eve and a gift or two

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Christmas, pizza, postaday2012, presents, spoiled

Happy Christmas Eve everyone! I am writing to you using my Christmas present, the new Ipad and the keyboard/cover. No more typing with my pointer finger,not that I minded all that much, I was getting pretty proficient at it. My hubby asked me if we could exchange a present or two this evening because I think that he was getting impatient for me to start using my new Ipad to blog with as I usually do this time of night. He was also excited to give our babies a hint of what is to come tomorrow, a little tease if you will. He is our family Santa, he is so adorable. I love my hubby and it’s not the Ipad talking.

Today was a busy day and I knew that it was going to be hectic so I figured that hors d’oeuvres and pizza would do very nicely for a Christmas Eve dinner. The hors d’oeuvres were creme fraiche, smoked salmon and duck pate on small toast points and we even went fancy on the pizza. My hubby seared a breast of duck and sliced it on the bias, that went on one half of a pizza, the other half had prosciutto and the cheese I used was both grated mozzarella and fresh mozzarella, The pizza was delicious and the thin slices of duck were brilliant. We haven’t gotten around to dessert but that can wait until tomorrow. Meanwhile I have more presents to wrap, I told you that today was hectic. I am now going to see if I can upload the pictures that I took with my new fangled Ipad.

What is my favorite holiday? I think that I answered this before but I don't remember what I said. If this is a repeat from my addled mind due to experiencing loss of memory at an increasing rate, please forgive me.

It is definitely not my birthday but that isn't a holiday, not yet anyway. What would I have to accomplish in order for my birthday to be deemed special enough to be considered a national holiday. Well first I would have to be dead and that isn't fun. I would also have to be someone considered important. That isn't the case. So it's not my birthday.

We just went through Thanksgiving and this year was an especially nice Thanksgiving. The food was delicious, it was just us and quiet. We got to lay around and do pretty much nothing except for eating and talking. It was very nice.

Tomorrow is Christmas, when the babies were babies it was my favorite holiday because to see their faces on Christmas morning made every effort more than worth it. You can't put a value on the magic of Santa Claus. The belief that a kind old elf loves all the children so much that he believes in spending one night every year visiting each and every one of them just to put a present for them underneath their tree, it's a powerful thing to believe that you have a magic elf who loves you. That helps make it special.

Now they are grown, so Santa has gone away to the place where all fairy tales go when you grow up, away. We are still going to have a nice Christmas together with good food and each other. So I still haven't answered my question which is my favorite holiday? I think that it is Thanksgiving or maybe Christmas. I do love the Christmas movies and the message of Christmas which could be extended to Thanksgiving. They are both holidays with good, solid, hopeful messages. Perhaps I don't have a favorite and I like them all.