We have a wonderful feast planned for the Christmas Day celebration.

I have no infants, this year and so I had to visit my neighbors across the street and next door to get my Christmas spirit looking into the innocent eyes of the future. They are adorable and Christmas is certainly gleaming from their eyes. My fine fellows are standing like soldiers around my table and awaiting my every whim to make Christmas as festive as can be. The young fellows at 9 and 13 are quite companionable and I am so happy that their sweetness is concentrated in the energy and busyness that their presence is a unifying influence on our ever-maturing Walker household. Our Christmas feast is starting with a stewed turkey. I soaked it in a little wine for about a half an hour. I stuffed it with onions and celery and then the stuffing, before the treatment of the skin. I covered the skin with a slight drizzle of olive oil, before applying the salt, pepper and poultry seasoning. No one cooks a turkey like my mother-in-law did, but I forwent her massage therapy of the turkey before cooking this year, on account of time. I used my mothers technique of placing the turkey in a paper bag, which I had to ask for specifically from the supermarket, {for ecological reasons]. I usually use plastic bags at the store and my children were all looking at me crosseyed: at the tree murderer who came into the house with paper bags from the supermarket..."Go figure!" While the turkey cooked and roasted, or whatever turkeys do in a paper bag, I made a lasagna, macaroni and cheese, calzones {for the pre-Christmas celebration], String beans and salad stuffs and dinner rolls. The banana pudding is for dessert. I am feasting on assorted candy chocolates, which are my favorites of the season. If you ask me, all of the food groups are represented in peanut m&m's. I give myself leisure to indulge, since I distracted my little ones with healthy alternatives. LOL. I had no shopping in my chores, because my adult and late teenage children did the lions-share of the shopping and my darling husband loves the stores in this season and I was no worse for the want of shopping. I shopped only for the love of my life and our 30th Christmas celebration is certainly underway.