On the 6th day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a steaming bowl of soup and a cup of tea - which is a great (if slightly unusual) way to start a freezing cold December morning.
In the way of festive food, we still have our Christmas cake to eat - only two little slices gone so far (we cut it in the style of wedding cake, as it is fruitcake and quite filling). This is due to having had three birthday cakes in the last 10 days before Christmas (one party birthday cake and two 'actual' birthday cakes) leaving us rather caked-out! I had to make some more mince pies yesterday (29th) as we were down to our last two and we still have turkey, ham and Christmas Pudding to polish off.
As well, there are homemade sweets put out in small dishes each lunchtime - glace fruits, marzipan fruits, mint chocolate bark with pretzels, chocolate dipped honeycomb and peanut and caramel bonbons. It's a good thing my sweet tooth has, apparently, disappeared - otherwise I could be in trouble!
It will be quite a relief to return to everyday food.
In other news, we're gradually working our way through The Twelve Days of Christmas song - December suggested that we only sing up to the day we're on, so that the complete piece will not be sung until the Twelfth Day of Christmas. I can see this becoming another Family Christmas Tradition (or FCT!), though our eldest daughter admitted that this is bringing out a previously unrealised OCD side to her, as she said it actually hurts her a little to NOT sing the song all the way through! We shall have to see what we can do to accommodate all parties.
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