It was a lovely day, spent with family we love, eating food we love, and playing in ways we love. We started the day off with breakfast and cousin gift exchange at Christopher and Tysen's house. Practically everyone was there. We ate our standard Christmas breakfast--scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, fruit, orange rolls, cinnamon pull apart, juice, and chocolate milk. We opened packages including the 2018 DeMartini Family Photobook, put together largely by Mikayla and which we all love. The kids took turns opening packages, working up from youngest, Kal, to oldest, Blake. There was rolling around on the floor, a bit of a tantrum, and general chaos, but it was wonderful to be together.
The grandchildren, and me.
We left the first party and went home to make rolls. Eight dozen rolls. That probably seems like a ridiculous number of rolls for one person to make, and it is, but that's just the way it worked out. I didn't sign up early enough for a food assignment for the Barrus Family Christmas Eve Party, so when I finally looked, rolls were what was left. I was also too late to order them from Shirley's, so I opted to make them. Blythe and Brandt helped, I baked them in four goes (about an hour), and I'm happy to report, they all turned out. They were delicious.
In the evening, we joined lots and lots of Barri (hence the need for eight dozen rolls) for our second party of the day. We ate, we played, we had a sweet nativity (Brandt was a wise guy, Blythe was an innkeeper), and then we did a white elephant gift exchange. I distributed the 2018 Barrus Family Photobook, a favorite with everyone, and we came home late, happy to have been able to be together with those we love.
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