MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EACH OF YOU

As you are awakening; we are preparing our afternoon dinner - turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes, spinach & vegetables, cheeses and breads. Then cookies, more bread, pies - I don't know how Mikki does it - she must have started weeks ago. Yesterday evening, cookies started appearing from all sorts of cupboards. It's fun - she saves them until Christmas Eve - which makes all the treats much anticipated.

After dinner, there was the reading of the Night Before Christmas, and then the search for Santa (just in case Philip & Kilian were monitoring his progress courtesy of the Space Station.) Once Santa was found; we marched upstairs to admire the trees and open the gifts. Then it was downstairs for tea and all the wonderful cookies. (Christmas socks are January 7th; 3 Kings Day.)

Christmas Eve Dinner

No that's not a crown on Philip's head; it something on the wall behind him

Christmas Sweats

Bruno wish all of you a Merry Christmas

It was the night before Christmas

Santa, Really?

Santa? Yes, indeedy!

You believe, right!

Ok, we all believe

Yes, Santa found Italy

The best of Santas helpers

Family

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Mikki holding one of Aunt Jean's cookboosks