What are you doing/eating for Christmas?

[Guest boatme99]

This should be good.

I'm at my sisters with niece, nephew in-law, and a friend. During the day we'll do some shooting off the deck. Nephew i/l is bringing his 1911, I just p/u a Ruger M77 30-06, and of course all the other toys around the house.

Then we'll get down to business! I'm roasting 2 prime ribs (we LIKE roast beef!), some kind of mashed potatoes, sauteed brussles sprouts, a black forest cheesecake and a pineapple upsidedown cake.

Of course there's the wine, cosmos for the ladies, scotch, and Mexicancoffee for after...

How about you?

MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL!

[Guest Gun Geek]

Quiet Christmas for me.

I am off the rest of the week. Going shopping tomorrow, then sitting on my bum Christmas eve, well untill the wee one falls asleep, then it is Santa assembly time. I am sure there will be a few choice words about small parts and "some assembly required". But the assembly will occur sometime before 5am.

It will be just my spouse, daughter and I together on Christmas day.(thank goodness, I don't get along with the inlaws). We will take video as the little one opens gifts and then play with the toys all day. Unfortunately she has discovered Barbies so dad may not play as much as when she was into Pixar Cars. Although she is getting a set of Nerf guns from me, ahhh her first projectile toy.

[Guest jackdm3]

You could have her start storing it in a safe to train her on safety and the respect of weapons.

[Guest db99wj]

Hmmm. A LOT!!

Traditional Christmas food Thursday evening after Mass (we don't do midnight mass) lots of deserts at the wife's Aunt and Uncle's. Late night of set up for the kids, Christmas morning festivities, breakfast at my house for us, my mom and step dad, aunt and uncle, MIL/FIL, BIL/SIL their kids. Breakfast will include cheese grits, eggs, BACON, biscuits, gravy, sausage balls, and some other stuff I'm sure. Lunch at my Uncle's house in Miss. some more presents for the kids, nap, football, nap, off to the MIL/FIL's, more presents, a full Italian dinner, lasagna, italian spinach, salad, bread, booze, deserts...then pass out drunk.:D

[ftncityfatboy]

traditional brunch....wife, daughter, daughter's boyfriend, and myself. We will have sausage & egg casserole, cheese grits, sausage gravy, biscuits, cinnamon rolls, hash brown taters, and bacon bacon bacon. Then we will be lazy and watch "A Christmas Story" ALL DAY LONG!!!!! Ah, Christmas......

[Guest jackdm3]

YouTube - ZZ Top - TV Dinners (Music Video)

Not really.

Christmas Eve: Italian uncle's Italian lasagna feast.

Christmas AM : Everything you might expect.

[trblmkr13]

Ham, Ham, Ham, then some Ham to top me off

[Guest Bluemax]

Quiet Christmas for me.

I am off the rest of the week. Going shopping tomorrow, then sitting on my bum Christmas eve, well untill the wee one falls asleep, then it is Santa assembly time. I am sure there will be a few choice words about small parts and "some assembly required". But the assembly will occur sometime before 5am.

It will be just my spouse, daughter and I together on Christmas day.(thank goodness, I don't get along with the inlaws). We will take video as the little one opens gifts and then play with the toys all day. Unfortunately she has discovered Barbies so dad may not play as much as when she was into Pixar Cars. Although she is getting a set of Nerf guns from me, ahhh her first projectile toy.

Merry Xmas GG, You have a beautiful wife and daughter and richly deserve a great christmas as well as the rest of the TGO family

[Mike.357]

We will watch the grandkids open their presents and then do whatever the heck I want. The boss is fixing a turkey dinner, toned down from Thanksgiving.

Probably take the oldest grandson out into the woods and have a shoot before dinner.

[Guest jackdm3]

Don't fall asleep, "old man!"

[Mike.357]

Don't fall asleep, "old man!"

speaking of which, LOL

Goodnight

[Guest jackdm3]

Sweet dreams and what is it that you do in the day time that saps you so?

[E4 No More]

Switching it up for once. We're having a slow cooked BBQ brisket in stuffed baked potatoes.

[Mike.357]

Sweet dreams and what is it that you do in the day time that saps you so?

I dunno that it is related to what I do during the day. More so I see no point in staying up and doing basically nothing. I am not one for watching mindless tv shows, do not have the attention span for movies anymore. I would rather get up way before dawn and start the new day.

The root is probably depression or dehydration

[Guest Oaklands]

For the first time in the 23 years I lived here, I have some family coming to visit me for a change. My sister, bro-in-law and their kids are coming.

We will be having other in-laws and my dad there as well.

The wife and I always cook a late breakfast. This year we are going to serve a nice breakfast casserole, a couple of pounds of bacon, gravy, country ham and my favorite red-eye gravy. Of course we will have some biscuits to throw around as well. Might even have some mimosas for the women and some good Bourbon for the guys.

[Mike.357]

for about twenty years I always suggest instead of the normal Xmas dinner she cooks that we instead go and get Chinese. I get shot down every year.

[Guest jackdm3]

I tell my mother that I would be just as happy with a really good take-out pizza and some icy Cokes, but it never registers.

[MacGyver]

I would be just as happy with a really good take-out pizza and some icy Cokes

As someone who grew up in Atlanta, there's nothing better than a coke that's just on the border of freezing.

[trblmkr13]

for about twenty years I always suggest instead of the normal Xmas dinner she cooks that we instead go and get Chinese. I get shot down every year.

You can't get Chinese until the Bumpus's hounds eat your turkey

[Ropin4gold]

I am getting up early Christmas morning and putting an 8lb brisket on the EGG. We don't do turkey at my house...

[Guest dart67eb]

The once a year prime rib. $32 at costco. Damn.

[Guest db99wj]

I made fudge. Like the kind out of the Hersey's cook book from the 70's. My dad use to make it when he was alive. Coco, sugar, whole milk. Stir until it starts to boil, then stop, put a thermometer in it, let it get to the "soft ball" stage, 234 degrees, take it off, put half a stick of butter, vanilla, let cool to 110 degrees, beat/stir until the shine is gone and get it into the pan quick like before it sets up. Kinda of chalky type fudge...man it so good it will make you slap yo grandma!

[Guest Gun Geek]

You could have her start storing it in a safe to train her on safety and the respect of weapons.

I have been teaching her gun safety since she was removed from the womb. She can tell you where the muzzle, bolt, stock, trigger etc etc is. She has a few cap guns and she knows the rules, they go in her "Gun box" and we never point them at people or our animals. We had a friend come over and decided he wanted to play guns with her toys, when he pointed it at her she absolutely freaked, and literally yelled at him. She is all of 3 and it was hilarious to see, the look on his face was priceless.

Merry Xmas GG, You have a beautiful wife and daughter and richly deserve a great christmas as well as the rest of the TGO family

Thank you very much Bluemax, A very Merry Christmas to you as well. Hope to meet up again one day.

[Punisher84]

I will be working 3rd shift Christmas Eve, coming home, sleeping for a few hours, getting up doing presents, over to my Mom's, home for a nap, then back to work. I'm always so glad I wanted to work in military/law enforcement/security. *sigh*

Merry Christmas folks!

[Verne]

Me and my sister will be doing Shrimp & baked potatoes this year. Got to love our Traditional Non-traditional Christmas dinners. Last year was a Loaded Pot Roast, year before that Spaghetti.