2008 Christmas Tea

I just realized this is the first time we've celebrated Christmas and had a blog where we could document our tea! How fun is that?! Wish I'd gotten a picture of all the presents together 'cause they looked so pretty and decorative, but alas...

[Spoiler warning: Rosie, if you haven't opened your presents yet and don't want to know what they are, stop reading here.]

Thank you first to our beautiful hostess for the grand setting. If we paid for presentation, you would be quite independently wealthy. Wish I would've grabbed some of that ham wreath for the drive home--eeyum! Canada is so far, you know... I love my angel food cake pan. It's Kev's favorite cake, and now I have a pan for it. I'll make that delicious cake recipe for Christmas. You know how to do the whole package!

Thank you, G, for the giant bottle of Mexican Valium! I have slept SO well these past two nights! But seriously, thank you for this. I never buy the real stuff because it's too expensive, so this is truly a treat. And just in time for the kids to make snow ice cream! Leave it to our princess of fun and games! That you plucked your own rooster and brought homemade chicken noodle soup--funny, visual, and delicious!

Thank you, Chérie, for the fun of picking out our own personalized bracelets! It was like a game where everyone won! How like our Abba to delight and delight us. Cool that you got them a long time ago, and they're so personal for us right now. Could you guys put in the comments what yours said? I only remember G's. (Like G, I wanted to open Rosie's too, to know what it said!) Your artichoke dip is a homerun. I couldn't stop eating it--eeyum!

Thank You, our magnificient Abba, today for the gift of Us. You pour and touch and embrace us intimately and personally through the broken bread and poured out wine of our lives into one another. We revel in the perfectly imperfect love of familar friendship and kindred hearts. We celebrate the birth of our Emmanuel and offer our gratitude for Your ever-being with us. XO