December 27, 2005 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Happy Holidays! Click on the photo to the left or here for a 3-minute tour of how I spent Christmas this year, if you’re not too Christmased-out yet.
Christmas eve was spent in Ivyland with my best friend and her delightful family. Ivyland is the kind of town I always dreamt of living in: quaint, friendly and charming. Even the name is adorable. On Christmas eve all the houses in town light paper lanterns along the curb. There are twinkly lights as far as the eye can see up every street; the effect is absolutely magical.
I enjoyed a traditional Christmas dinner at my Mom’s house. A roast, “menage-a-trois” potatoes and yorkshire puddings, which are sort of like a popover that you get to pour gravy all over. They are my favorite Christmas treat. My Mom (”Mambo”) and her husband (”Papa Ian”) are both terrific cooks. To top it all off, we had plum pudding for desert with hard sauce. Delicious. The abundance of puddings led to some pudding confusion as you will see. After champage with appetizers, wine with dinner, port with desert and all that hard sauce, it should surprise no one that the night ended with us all bursting into song. First the wrong song, then a song to which none of us really knew the lyrics. A good time was had my all.
Not one but TWO fun-filled evenings with family & friends? Best Christmas present I ever got.
“Christmastime is Here”
Vince Guaraldi Trio
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Fantasy Records 1965/1992
Buy It!
December 27, 2005
@ 5:45 pm
Pudding, ewwww
We had ham ‘n pie
December 27, 2005
@ 5:53 pm
Looks like you guys had a blast!!! Good job! Great video , as always.. But, I must confess the first thing that came to mind when I saw the lovely candles in the bags lining the street was “Bad Santa”. Sorry ’bout that. Twisted mind.
December 27, 2005
@ 9:36 pm
First of all, your mother is just Beautiful. Second, I think I want to use the term meat muffin in bed one night. Worse (or better) I’ll be thinking of you.
Glad you had a great holiday.
December 27, 2005
@ 10:01 pm
All that was missing were the kazoos.
December 28, 2005
@ 9:02 am
MissB;
I haven’t been able to see this yet, but am anticipating watching it later on. I just wanted to tell you about a baby boy in NYC that is in desperate need of a miracle. I posted about him today on my blog. I am just spreading the word around in the hopes that miracles can and do happen. For some reason, the fact that you live in the same city and work with babies made me want to share his story with you in particular.
December 29, 2005
@ 1:13 am
Glad to hear that you had a good Christmas!!
January 5, 2006
@ 8:43 pm
Very glad that you had such a nice time. Sounds picturesque, for sure!
Happy New Year! 
January 14, 2006
@ 4:33 pm
Yes, very nice streets.
In Colombia parents usually leave your room exactly the way you leave it…
Nice to “meet” your mom.
Great ending.. “What?” jejejeeee
January 14, 2006
@ 4:36 pm
Oh, I forgot, what was the “perfect gift”?
March 10, 2006
@ 11:09 am
This was simply charming! Your choice of music was perfection. Your mom is beautiful and is just as comfortable in front of the camera as you. You have a wonderful family.
Peace