I started the day by going to bed at 1.20, not the best idea ever. But as I was staying up it was feeling glorious. I expected the day to become awful and stressful and therefore thought, staying up doing nice things and delaying the next day would be worth it.
Well, not really.
I did most of my morning routine anyway, including yoga working around the Christmas tree. I did not really open the manuscript, though I did touch the blurb very briefly.
I started a new pair of socks for my husband:
We had smoked salmon on toast with champagne for lunch and I completely forgot to take a picture.
I then played an hour of Genshin Impact and finished the domain I had struggled with the night before.
And then the boy and I put the lights on the Christmas tree. He went his merry way after that because he was still very body drawing Christmas cards.
Husband and I tackled the cooking. The sauerkraut had been simmering on the wood stove since lunchtime and then it was time to boil potatoes and fry the brats.
I have ever seen potatoes that were that weird ever before in my life. I specifically bought a kind that should have been good for mashed potatoes. Husband peeled them and put them on the stove and after just a little more than the usual cooking time about half of the were actual mush and the rest was merely a little overcooked. Which meant we couldn’t really get all the water out. And then I started making mashed potatoes. And couldn’t use most of the milk because the potatoes were so mushy and almost liquid. I threw a ton of butter in there but they never really gained that delicious fluffiness that I would have liked.
Yummy. Well, apart from the potatoes.
At one point I had the brilliant idea of using the candle and candle holder I had gotten from a student on the table. I brought the candle over from the annex. Husband carried the candle all the way to the annex to find a lighter.
He lit the candle and just before he was entering the apartment the flame died.
Shortly after we heard a big crash and tinkle.
The candlestick was no more.
We met up to exchange presents, just small tokens. My mother-in-law really loved our tree:
The boy took this picture. His sense of composition is much better than mine, I wouldn’t hav thought to include the snow outside. And then he gave me my present:
He drew this winter scene from Genshin Impact specifically for me. I was very moved.
The my husband and I talked a bit more while doing the dishes and then I was about to drop. Start writing this post and went to bed.
And now for Christmas Day!
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