Christmas dinner was at our house as usual. A bit larger crowd this year as new "significant others" with offspring were included as well as "other" offspring who were available. Of course that causes us to roughly double the amount of food intended for dinner with two solid weeks of left-over casseroles, potpies, sandwiches, etc, etc etc. The amount of food is not determined by the number of people - the only measurement is roughly "more food than we could possibly eat if we invited the entire Mormon tabernacle choir" which, come to think of it, would have certainly added to my Pandora-sourced Christmas music.
A raucous game of naughty questions was going on in one room; football in another and appetizers, candy, dinner items and desserts were liberally sprinkled throughout the house. Secret Santa was down to seven participants so less insulting than usual. I still think my contribution of the alpaca wool socks was an inspired offering. Again I captured a giant bottle of booze - rum this year, vodka the last. Some kind of pattern apparently though it serves as a backdrop to the 100 bottles of wine we have in the bar.
The day always starts celebrating with our little family of daughter, S-I-L and grandson before the rest of the party arrives in the afternoon. Joseph was forced to revert to his "count to ten" tactic when the number of wrapped packages caught his attention when he arrived causing unbelievable heights of excitement. He proved extremely helpful by unwrapping his gifts, his Mom and Dad's gifts and Grandpa and Nana's. But he is an excellent "recipient" as well examining each offering and asking how it works before going on to the next.
One highlight for me was when Joseph was forced into a debate between a practicing veterinarian and practicing psychologist in identifying the different dinosaurs in the tube of dinosaurs he got from Grandpa. He listened patiently as the others identified the various types as he is used to most people getting them wrong. They even argued with him about the name of one and said there was no such dinosaur. Joseph just kindly pointed out their error, which they did not accept, but sorry, Joe knows his dinosaurs. Yep these professionals were arguing with a 4 year old and he was beating them! LOL
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