Merry Christmas Eve Mgoblog!

Covid suddenly and royally screwed family's plans to get together. Taking care of elderly parent, her first go round with it. I've got some Sierra Nevadas, some ciders, a bit of Jameson, a mask and some leftovers

But merry christmas anyway!

1. What ya drinkin’?   Liquid. 
2. What ya cooking?  Food. 
3. Traditions?  Festivas for the rest of us

Merry Christmas ya filthy animals. 

Our tradition is going to the shitshow that is my MIL's. I cooked dinner, a nice pork tenderloin. 

Nice knife we got her last christmas is thrown in the drawer with cheese graters, serving spoons, and other shit. She said it must not be a very good knife because it's dull already. Getting her a knife block ASAP. Though probably won't use it.  At least the digital meat thermometer was still here so I could properly cook the pork!

Kids are in the process of going to sleep so I just poured myself some of the whiskey I brought (Wild Turkey 101). There's no suitable glassware in the house for it so I'm using a 150 ml beaker from my late FIL's chemistry set. I should have brought more, my BIL will be coming tomorrow and we'll both need lots of whiskey after a full day of inlaws

Seconded! Everybody take care and enjoy the season!!

Woodford (neat) in my glass and we’re enjoying Spirited (Apple TV) for the fifth time!  If you haven’t seen it, it’s a funny twist on Christmas Carol.  If you have seen it… GOOD AFTERNOON!

Peach schnapps. Only drink it on Christmas Eve. One of the oldest traditions I have.

Got the wife’s side over. Food coma has set in and gifts to be opened soon.

Tonight, I’ll wait for everyone to leave and the kids to go to sleep, and then Santa will go to work. The kids are too old, but that has never stopped Santa from being Santa.

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

Made the saltiest pastrami on the grill.  Added some sauerkraut and thousand island.  Only thing missing was Rye, but it does horrible things to my body.  Paired it with a 2022 vintage Coke Zero and I am a happy man.

A good friend of my wife's made us some homemade soup, cookies, and cheeses, left them on the porch, rang the doorbell and scampered away. She had heard that my daughter and I had COVID and was concerned that we were going to cancel our Christmas Eve dinner (but we're just pushing it back a couple days). She's a sweetheart.

Merry Christmas to all the good people out there!

The boys wanted brisket tacos for Christmas but I’m coming off surgery and ain’t no way I’m fighting the smoker in this weather, so sushi it is. 

In another 90 minutes I’m due for another dose of oxycodone and then cruise off to a niiiiiice little nap. 

Jack Daniel’s Master Distiller #3

🎶 I want a mistress for Christmas 🎶

White elephant gifts with my mom

Bowling with my dad 

Merry Christmas everyone 

Drinking: grape juice and seltzer on ice (alcohol free).

Eating: take out Chinese food (only decent takeout place open)

Fun traditions: take out Chinese food with the family on Christmas Eve. Yes, I know, it's a cliche but it's what we do. Regardless of the meal style/contents, the important thing is that the wife and I are still together (actually next to each other on the couch as I type this) and we get to look at and listen to the now grown "kids", sitting in the family home, being warm, happy, safe, and together again.

Gifts? Yep. Over the past week. Received a few, handed out a few, bringing a nice one home tomorrow or Monday morning.

Merry Christmas to all of you.

The BIL and I have been sipping on a couple pours, Buffalo Trace barrel pick, and then WT Rare Breed.

Dinner was a shrimp marinara sauce over spaghetti squash 😋.

No dessert, but maybe a nice pour if Alberta Premium Cask strength rye🥃

Merry Christmas to all 🙏🎅🎄

Bourbon here. Bulliet mixed with some honey since we have have all been sick with colds over here.  
Unfortunately, my smoker is buried under a 5 foot snow drift so we will be doing the tenderloin in the oven tomorrow.  Being on the Lake MI shoreline, this amount of snow is not unusual but I have not seen drifting like this in a long time. Stay safe and have a great Christmas all!

MGoWife went nuts baking for friends, family, and neighbors this year -- so spaghetti for dinner (like a couple of others here).

No drinky drink though as we're heading out for midnight mass in a bit.

I've been working on assembling a beef wellington for the 3 days.  Roast it tomorrow.  Should be nice.  Was -16 24 hours ago, supposed to be 60 and sunny tomorrow.

Merry Christmas MGoBlog.

Bumpuses!!  Egg nog and bourbon w a bit of cinnamon. Prime rib earlier. All is well. 

Merry X-Mas all. 
 

My family is doing a new tradition we’re doing a polish Christmas.  Homemade Pierogis, Kielbasa, Potato Pancakes and Ham.     

Don't drink.

Don't cook. My wife cooks very well, but we're going low frills as we're leaving tomorrow after church for a whirlwind visit with family. And whirlwind might be a literal concept this week given the weather.

Our varying travel arrangements with ministry have curtailed some of our traditions, because Christmas is a bit different every year. A lot of our favorite traditions happen in the leadup: We visit the local walk-through light display, Bentleyville. We set up the tree early-ish and play the same music every year. My wife makes the kids outfits, good ones, for a church service before Christmas. I live-tweet It's a Wonderful Life on twitter.

Merry Christmas everyone. 

Though the Christmas Eve dinner is behind is us…. We enjoyed several bottles of pretty fine wine including a magnum of one of Orin Swift’s specialties.  The main course was beef tenderloin and all the fixins to complement it.  Desserts were tremendous.  We exchanged gifts with extended family  - and, we’ll open presents with our kids in the morning.

Opening presents Christmas morning is our family tradition - and, it’s Fantastic to have the kids back home from school for a couple of weeks.

Jadyn Davis is JD, I believe