With a bed in the living room, we had no tree this year, so I dubbed this the Christmas couch.
I filled the stockings while everyone slept on Christmas morning.
We get one of those tiny cat dinners for Bryde, the house cat. A couple weeks ago I stuck one of her toys in the catnip jar. She has so many, we just put one in the jar and she’s happy.
When I wrap the presents for her, I put a pinch of catnip inside the wrapping.
This year she got her chipmunk again.
She’s got 2 piles of catnip in addition to her presents.
Nipped out cat
On “her” bed with the ‘munk
My son got this photo of her
She got her dinner when we had ours, with a similar result afterwards.
The layers’ Christmas dinner went up in the morning; we remembered it this time. It has the alfalfa pellet mash, herb mixture, sunflower seed kernels, and a chopped apple (core removed, seeds are toxic). Plus they have a pumpkin in the run to mess around with.
My son got this photo of Lily and Dennis the Girl in their hay box in the sun a few days ago.
Their dinners went up at evening chores. Lily could smell them and was not happy when my husband had to go entice Dennis out of the hay box. Lily wanted hers NOW!
We had a lazy laid back day on Christmas. I made the phone calls to family early on. We opened our presents, and then I got the celery stuffed and the pumpkin pudding baking.
Our dinner around noon was surf and turf. My husband and son had beef tenderloins and I had lobster. I’d made a salad for me, they had corn and dinner rolls. My husband had made a big plate of our own French fries. That and the ketchup for them, and the butter was all that was from the farm this year.
We all read during the afternoon; my husband and I with books, my son on his phone. My husband and I had naps also, along with the cat. It was a lovely day, with conversation and peace and joy to be together.