What did you really do on Christmas Eve?

[Lauralee]

I trimmed hooves on 8 mini horses with thick, hard feet!

Vaccinated my weanlings and upset their day completely!

Started halter training the weanlings....and....

Dewormed several adults who were due.

Things got behind around here when I had surgery in August and then complications afterwards......so it feels nice to be ALMOST caught up with my chores!

 

[Margo_C-T]

My daughter who works at Los Alamos is here for the holiday; yesterday,she and I went into the 'big city'(Albuquerque)to the early showing of "The Chronicles of Narnia"-which turned out to be very enjoyable(Lisa is a voracious reader, and reminded me that I'd gifted her with the entire series by C.S Lewis many years ago!) We then returned to my little burg and stopped by Subway, picked up some sandwiches to bring home for lunch(and the leftovers for later!)-and we both napped in front of various holiday shows on TV! Took a big ole ibuprofen so I could do the PM chores in relative comfort(knee....); we had the tree on Christmas Eve(as our family always has)-nice! Daughter gave me CD collections of John Denver and Bobby Helms(bet most of you don't remember HIM!), and a goodly supply of my favorite 'body cream' from Bath and Body Works. She is a huge Harry Potter fan-got several related items from her friends, along with the DVDs on the list she gave me-"Sound of Music", "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", and a gift card for the other one, which Target was out of.... Today, per Lisa's request for the menu of Christmas dinner, I am fixing chicken fried steak with white gravy and mashed potatoes, along with a molded strawberry/banana salad we both love!

Courtesy of taking those big(800 mg.)ibuprofen(got a bottle of 100 from Mexico; they are real 'horse pills', but work!), I am getting around pretty well today, so may try to take my new cart for a spin with Dusty and some real, honest-to-gosh cast brass sleigh bells, which sound SOOOO great!!

Merry Christmas to ALL, and to all, a good DAY!!

 

[ChrystalPaths]

I made my famous French Onion Soup and waited for Glacia and Aidan to arrive then ate it and loved em!

 

[MBennettp]

I had to work until 5 then came home and made food for Christmas until midnight. Had to get up at 5 Christmas morning in order to get the rest of the food ready and get the rolls ready for noon meal.

Mary

 

[The Dynamic Duo]

i sit there and mom and dad fight, we open up one present play with it for 10 minutes and then go to bed.... or so they tell me

 

[Bluerocket]

We cleaned the house --- so we could relax the next day with friends -- and my husband could relax all week while he is on vacation -- I and I would Thurs - Mon of this week on vacation..

Our 2nd anniversary was Christmas eve -- so we actually celebrated that on Friday night.

Christmas Day was quite pleasant! -- we had friends over and enjoyed phone calls with relatives catching up on their lives.

JJay

PS I also stripped stalls in the barn - scrubbed all water and feed buckets and turned horse out/in and fed.

 

[SunQuest]

I didn't do a blasted thing! Everyone in my family is ill with a dang cold, so Christmas eve festivities were officially cancelled. The only thing I did was the chores as usual, including slipping and sliding through the knee deep mud from the rain that we have been getting. Yuck.

 

[CKC]

We've had a rough month of December so my husband had to do a lot of getting ready by himself. I felt pretty good starting this past Friday so I started helping as much as I could. We wrapped presents, cleaned the house, finished painting the living room, cleaned the ice/snow off the walk way all while chasing an 18 month old. I finally talked my husband into putting up lights that night as well. I fell asleep on the couch... woke up at 3:30 am helped decorate the tree until 4:30 am Christmas morning. Got up at 6:45am to feed.

So there was a lot to do on Christmas Eve. Christmas Day was pretty much just as busy. We had 16 people come around 3:00( 3 of them being under 2 years old). We work really well under pressure.

 

[Marion]

Fed the horses their hay

Went to my mom's all day. I had to help her cook for the rest of the family.

Came home went to bed and the next morning we had to go to my husband's family.

 

[RAPfrosty]

My friend and her family came over to light the luminaries that we put down the divider that goes the whole length of our street. An older lady started it years ago and when she mved to a retirement home she passed it on to us. It looks so pretty, I wish I had pictures. Then we all had the traditional eastern eurpean Christmas Eve dinner (fish, perogees (sp), ect.) that we do every year and then exchanged "family gifts", watched A Christmas Story, and went to bed.