Last Christmas, if you recall, we managed to celebrate the day by smashing up our car after hitting an invisible patch of black ice.
This Christmas, thankfully, things were a lot more peaceful and less exciting.
We started by wrapping our gifts to each other. A few years ago, I abandoned wrapping paper altogether and embraced the Japanese practice of furoshiki, or wrapping gifts in colorful fabric. Honestly, this was one of those "Where have you been all my life?" moments. Fabric wrap is infinitely reusable and creates no waste.
I keep a bag of festive fabric bits (some large, some small) in our Christmas tote, and we use them for wrapping gifts.
On Christmas Eve, we attended our church's evening "Lessons and Carols" service and sang our hearts out.
The next morning was the Christmas Day service. I took this photo from the choir loft before anyone had arrived.
We opened presents, spent the day lounging around, and watched George C. Scott's "A Christmas Carol" in the evening.
(Also, I made my first batch of Parmesan cheese, which now has to age for ten months, so I have no idea how it turned out.)
How was your Christmas?
Peacefully spent with family. Absolutely wonderful!
ReplyDeleteHow was our Christmas? Wonderful. We went to our son and daughter-in-law's place just 12 miles away, where they and our two grandchildren awaited our arrival so we could share breakfast and open presents. Christmas dinner came later. The blessing of being with children and grandchildren at Christmas is a gift from a loving Heavenly Father. As my late grandmother used to say, "God is so good!"
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