Day 33: It's Christmas Eve!

This is my Christmas face.

Happy Christmas Eve! It's been a day full of food and Christmas television. We went to Christmas Eve mass, which was nice. Then we got back, ate food, and right now we're watching Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special. It's entertaining. And weird. Just like normal Pee Wee's Playhouse. 

 

For afternoon tea, we had fresh baked cinnamon buns (the best I've made yet. This is the recipe, and it's amazing. My only recommendation is setting the oven to 425 degrees, not 475, and baking it for 10 minutes. Otherwise it's too hot and isn't as good), apple slices, and crackers with Herb & Garlic goat cheese (so good!). For supper, we had tortiere (made by my Mum. Boy, was it delicious!), and red peppers. I had made spiced squash, but the squash was a little too old (apparently), and it didn't taste very good. That was a failed attempt, but at least the rest of supper was tasty!

My husband made our gas mask festive.

And we had a mysterious quadruped visitor in our backyard. Who knows what it was. We think that it was probably a hare or a rabbit, but a friend of mine suggests that it was something like this:

That looks about right.

While we were watching Pee Wee's Playhouse, I was reminded of a scene from the animated film Thumbelina. That was one of my favourite movies as a child. The singer Charo (who was on Pee Wee's Playhouse) does a voice in it. Let's have a Throw Back Thurs...Tuesday.

Well, that was fun.

Now, onto more Christmas Eve celebration. Christmas cake, chocolates, hot chocolate with whipped cream... and The Muppets! And later we'll listen to The Shepherd. It's only one more sleep 'til Christmas!