Well, this is going to be a busy weekend! We have 15 people coming for Christmas dinner, with another three tenuously invited (they’ll come for wine and hors d’oeuvres, at least). So this weekend M’hijito and I need to get together, buy food and choreograph a strategy for cooking and serving a mountain of food around all the other things going on.
He, of course, also has to attend his father’s Christmas. I was surprised to learn that his dad didn’t know about the jamboree casa mia, and so evidently M’hijito plans to show up there with as little fanfare as possible.
Complicating matters, SDXB is driving into town to attend the midnight service at the Cult Headquarters, where I will be singing for two chivarees, one earlier in the evening and one in the middle of the night. He’s planning to stay overnight and then join us for the dinner party.
To my great delight, we’ll be singing the Biebl Ave Maria on Christmas. We did it for the Lessons and Carols service a week or so ago, and so I thought our director wasn’t planning to have us do it for the midnight service. It is beautiful beyond belief, and so I’m pleased SDXB will be able to hear it. As a crazed right-wing aging RC, he still pines for the Latin mass. He should enjoy the midnight chivaree, which is about as high church as American Anglicans can get. Our pastor like to chant the Eucharist, and when you combine that with the best music the choir director can pull together (and he being who he is, that’s pretty amazing) and with censers censing and bells ringing, SDXB should feel right at home.
At any rate, after singing until after midnight, I’ll have to get up early and fix something for him to eat for breakfast, since he won’t go out to eat. Then race to prepare the house for the shindig. Meanwhile the choir director is having an open house that we could (read “should”) appear at, and one of my RAs may show up here with her two little girls for wine and snacks. Hm…this means we’ll need to have something for the girls to drink…maybe I’ll make that pineapple punch, which everyone loves and can be spiked with rum one glass at a time for the grown-ups.
Darn! I thought I’d posted that but can’t find it. I’ll try to find time to put that recipe up between now and Christmas.
Other alternatives for the small fry and the young mother With Twins: fizzy lemonade, virgin English majors (is there such a thing?), frescas made with frozen raspberries or cherries. Hmmm… We could make any of those things, really, as punch for everyone, and then add booze to individual swiggles for those who want it.
😀 We are gunna have fun!
Oh I *hope* you post the pineapple punch recipe as I’d like to steal it for next week. Have a great weekend!!