Christmas Eve

[maeve66]

Such a nice day. Devlin seems all better. R. and R. came over to make applesauce cake with Grandma's mother's recipe (tweaked, I am convinced from one in the Kansas City Star, or a magazine of the time... with added cocoa) and also a mince pie; we chatted, watched some short videos, ate cheese and crackers, drank masala chai, and put my presents under the tree for literally a hot second, so I could take a photo. Then they packed them in a box to take over to Damuth.

We looked up Frederick Demuth, Karl Marx's illegitimate son with Helene Demuth, the Marx's housekeeper.

Around 5:30 PM, RQ and T. came over. RQ made a delicious peasant winter dinner of fried cabbage-onions-and-butter, roasted potatoes, and fried kielbasa sausages. I was unconvinced because of the kielbasa, but in fact fried, it was delicious.

I have a lot of dishes to do, but I don't mind dishes.

We watched Kneecap (which RQ and I had already seen, as I wrote about a couple of months ago), and then after dinner, we watched It's a Wonderful Life, which was the first time RQ ever watched it all the way through, and the first time T. ever watched it at all.

I'm due over there tomorrow morning for presents and bagels and lox and cream cheese at 10 AM, so I cannot stay up that much longer.

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[sabotabby]

I hope it's wonderful.