Reading The Night Before Christmas with Dad
After running a few last-minute errands together, Blanden spent the day as my sous chef as we whipped up a couple of pies for tomorrow and prepped the ingredients for Ed's famous carrot soup. Fortunately, Ed was able to come home from work early, so we were able to make it to the family mass at the cathedral downtown, which was really nice. Blanden promptly charmed and chit-chatted with the people sitting next to and behind us, and was then lulled to sleep by the holiday music. We came home to a delicious dinner (a miniature bison roast and Western Slope wine for the two of us; Blanden sampled sweet potatoes earlier this afternoon for his holiday fare), Ed is now finishing his soup, then we are headed to bed, ready to celebrate Santa Claus' arrival tomorrow. According to Ed, Santa arrives at midnight, so we better get to sleep!
