Ummm... St. Stephan's Day, I think?

[wiseheart]

In any case, we overslept a bit, and then we did the laundry - two days later as we firmly refused to do slave labour on Christmas Eve. Even if Louise (= the washing machine) is the one who does the actual washing.

We realized that the Yule log would be too large and too rich for the two of us to consume it within reasonable time, so I cut off one third of it and took it to our neighbours. They have two teenage children; at that age they would eat everything, so I'm sure the chunk of log is already gone by now. *g*

My friend Evie came over around noon, and we had a lovely time. She's her birthday and her name-day on Christmas Eve, and since Mum and I have the same given name, it was a group name-day, with leftover cookies and nice conversation.

When Evie left, we decided not to eat the rests of the stuffed chicken and steamed red cabbage (with apples and raisins) for lunch, since it was too late for such heavy stuff. We ate some leftover Tütensuppe with cookies, and that was it.

I've also thought a bit about the last two pages of Dani's quiet book, and chose a deep sea page with a submarine and a rocket page. The submarine can be seen at 2:37 of this YouTube video, and the rocket is in the same video, at 4:14. I'll be adding sea creatures and planets, respectively, to the background, since my book will be a much larger size than the original (20cm by 20cm instead of 15x15).

So, this was my day, including a short nap before Evie arrived and playing some Solitaire on my geriatric laptop. I hope your day was a nice one, too.

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[adafrog.livejournal.com]

we firmly refused to do slave labour on Christmas Eve. Even if Louise (= the washing machine) is the one who does the actual washing.
:)
not too bad here. mostly read.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Reading is good for the soul.

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

A visit from a friend, simple food and peaceful occupation. That sounds like a perfect day.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a lovely day.

Somewhere along the way our family changed from the UK tradition of having Brussel sprouts as part of Christmas dinner to the more continental tradition of red cabbage — for which I am eternally grateful! I cook it slowly with apple, onion, wine vinegar, salt, sugar and cinnamon.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I make it similarly, just with apple vinegar, apples, a laurel leaf, raisins and cloves. :)
Brussels sprouts aren't my favourite, either.

[meathiel]

We had Sauerbraten for dinner yesterday, it was so good!!!

And apart from that it was a lazy day.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love Sauerbraten, too!

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

Boxing Day is the day when stressed housewives like me finally notice that Christmas is practically over and gone...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Which is in a sense a relief, isn't it? As much as family get-togethers are lovely, it's always the housewife who has to do the slave labour. Especially when certain members of the family refuse to eat whatever the rest eats — H. keeps complaining about it. I have it easy; Mum and I like much the same things, and when not, we always come to a consensus.