Christmas Dinner

Christmas dinner went well. We ate mashed potatoes, green beans, homemade herb bread, ham, and a roast duck!!! Everything besides the duck was the normal dinner foods. (It was the first time we ever had duck...at least, that we cooked!) I liked the green beans, herb bread, ham, and duck. But one thing I never did like was mashed potatoes! You probably think I'm crazy because I don't like mashed potatoes, but oh well. I like fried potatoes (if you cook them long enough). Back to the point. I especially liked the duck legs (just like I like chicken legs), but I was the only one who tried them. Everyone else ate the other parts of the duck. But on my second duck leg I was surprised by the taste of orange sauce!!! I made a funny face that made my dad laugh like crazy! I think I had pretty good reason to spit it out though...orange sauce...YUCK!!! After I had pealed off all of the duck skin that had orange sauce on it, I ate the rest.

After cleaning up all of the dishes together, we played a game of LIFE at my request...but it didn't go as well as I had wanted. It was a bit chaotic with everyone asking one another, "Who's turn is it?", or "What is your salary?", or "Give me 70,000 for my pay day." So, we decided to quit in the middle.

Dessert was Chocolate Pudding Pie with an oreo crust. The pudding was a little mushier than it was supposed to be but it tasted good. We also had those chocolate cookies that come in a little box at grocery stores and homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies. I liked the Chocolate Chip Cookies more.

So that sums up our Christmas dinner and afterwards.

-Jaime Robinson-



Hey, Jaime, you forgot to mention the bony bacon we ate for breakfast! Yep, that's right. There was little pieces of bone in mine and Jaime's bacon! Lol. It was kind of weird. I've never had bacon that had little chunks of bone stuck in it. WEIRD!

-Courtney-

Early Christmas Gifts

This weekend our Grandparents visited. We (without our Grandparents) made lots and lots of cookies. We made Chocolate Chip Cookies, Butterscotch Chip Cookies, and Ginger Cookies. Will was supposed to give Annie (our dog) a bath but Dad helped him and so did I. It was so funny when Dad was trying to get Annie into the bathroom. She hates water and is scared of thunderstorms. She was leaning as far back as she possibly could so that Dad couldn't get her into the bathroom. But Dad is stronger than she is so he got her in. She was trying to get out of the tub at first but after she felt the warm water she started cooperating more. We finished that and she got a treat for being a "good girl."

We used half of a large bag of chocolate chips for our Chocolate Chip Cookies and a whole small bag of butterscotch chips for our Butterscotch Chip Cookies. We usually double the recipe for our Ginger Cookies but since we had a bunch of other cookies we didn't this time. Even though we ate alot of cookies already there are still alot left. They were GOOD!! Mmmm...

We each got some presents from our Grandparents. Court got some "Brain Benders" (those wooden block puzzles that you have to somehow fit together), a folder, a couple of notebooks, ten dollars, a pencil that went with the notebooks, and a few books. Some Heroes Of The Faith books and stuff like that. Will got some knee pads and stuff for when he skateboards (not the really cheap stuff), a folder with a couple of notebooks and a pencil, ten dollars, and a few books. I (Jaime) got a cross stitch thing, a folder, a couple of notebooks with a cut snowman pencil, a couple books, and ten dollars as well. We are all very thankful to our Grandparents.

We don't have an extra bedroom so they had to take Courtney's room. (She has a couch-bed.) I slept with Dad and Mom slept in my room. (Mom didn't sleep with Dad 'cause she can't sleep through his snorin'. Since I snore too, I don't even notice it.) I slept okay but it was kinda hard to get to sleep when I wasn't used to it.

Well, that's all for our early Christmas present post.

PS: Court just told me that Will did one of the "Brain Bender" things. :)


-Jaime Robinson-

Chewy Ginger Cookies

Ingredients

1/2 c. butter, softened
1/4 c. oil
1 c. sugar
1 egg
1/4 c. molasses
2 1/4 c. flour
2 tsp. ground ginger
1 tsp. baking soda
3/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ground cloves
Sugar

Instructions

Beat butter, 1 cup sugar, oil, egg and molasses until well blended. In a separate bowl, mix together flour, ginger, cloves, baking soda and cinnamon. Mix dry and wet ingredients together. Shape dough into balls. Roll balls in sugar. Place balls on un-greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for ten minutes or until lightly browned and still puffed. Cool on cookie sheet for two minutes; remove to wire rack to cool completely. Makes 2 dozen.

-Jaime Robinson-