Getting ready for Twelfth Night

[pegkerr]

The girls had fun tonight decorating a gingerbread house with icing and candies. It turned out better than I was afraid it would--the gingerbread walls came pre-made, but several were broken, and we had to patch them together with icing.

We had wanted to do our usual Twelfth Night celebration tomorrow night, but it's a bad night: the girls and I have karate, and Rob's not even coming home for dinner, so I had a brainstorm: why not have a Twelfth night breakfast? Hey, why not? I've whipped together a fancy scone batter: I'll just add the wet ingredients and bake them in the morning, and we'll have fresh hot cranberry chocolate chip scones. And I'll brew hot cocoa. The table is set with some Christmas dishes, with the gingerbread house as a centerpiece, and there's a miniature stocking at each place with gifts. I went a tad bit over my usual Twelfth night budget, but oh well. I included a couple of books for each girl, a DVD movie each for Rob and me, and chocolates and silly plastic toys. (I put an Elastigirl keychain in mine.) The table looks very festive.

So we'll have a cozy, celebratory breakfast in the morning. A last Christmas hurrah, before we face the long cold slog of bitter January.

Edited to add: Fiona asked, "Do the scones have to have cranberries in them?"

I looked her straight in the eye and told her, "Yes, they do."

Yep. Sometimes they really don't deserve me.

Comments

[airemay.livejournal.com]

Awwww that sounds like so much fun. :D

[jemyl.livejournal.com]

Peg: Our family has nearly always celebrated our Christmas with a Christmas breakfast instead of a big Christmas dinner. Often we had the breakfast before the gifting, when I was little. I was allowed to choose one gift to open before breakfast and the rest after. That way I wasn't pulled away from my treasures to eat immediately after receiving them.

In later years we continued this tradition because one of the family worked a late shift and could only join us for breakfast. By then I was an adult and everyone waited until after breakfast to open the gifts most of the time, though not always, It just depended upon what food we were having and the will of the cook!

This year I put outside lights up for the first time and I decided that our outside Tree, as well as our interior decorations would stay up until after 12th night. It was once our tradition and I decided it was time to renew it. It is a fun way to start out the new year too.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Oh, we have a Christmas breakfast, too, which is a very important part of our family tradition. It's really the heart of our celebration for just the four of us. I have special dishes that I got from my grandfather which are used for that meal only. I make a special gingered fruit with pastry stars each year, and I'll make eggs and bacon and generally have a coffee cake or french toast or pecan rolls or something. And we have the lit advent wreath with the Christmas candle in the center as a centerpiece.

This will be nice tomorrow, sort of an echo of that, but a little different. I'm looking forward to it.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Fiona asked, "Do the scones have to have cranberries in them?"

Tell Fiona I'll eat hers if she doesn't want them.

!

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I'll tell her!

[bordergold.livejournal.com]

if she doesn't like them you can send them to me ;)

Cranberrygirl

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

I thought of you this afternoon when I stopped at my co-op to pick up something for dinner. Passing through the junk food section I noticed that the Pirate Booty Green now came with "More Spinach & Kale!!"

"Well," I thought, "Fiona's gonna dig _that_!"