The Holidays

Our Christmas this year was nice and peaceful. 

Lizzie came on Thursday and helped me get things ready for  our Christmas Eve gathering. In the morning I took Marv to dialysis and took the huge box of chocolates to give to the staff, they are expecting it every year and they were happy!
 Marvin has lost some weight lately and it takes him longer to recover, but he was happily waiting for his brother and sisters to get here.

They came around 5PM, just Mary and Dewey and Bettie. Lee had a toothache and stayed home. Christina, Rick and Jameson went over to her grandmother, Iris was busy with her sisters, but a little later on David and his son came to our  home.

I made  bean soup, because it was a pretty cold day, by California standards,we got chickens at Juan Pollo with tortillas and salsa, we had different chips and dips, they brought a couple of salads too. For dessert Marv made a pecan pie, and mini eclairs. We had a good time.
Christmas Day was just the 3 of us (Sandy and family went to Marty's folks in Pocatello)
In the morning we opened our presents, I very much enjoyed the picture book Lizzie made of out trip to Spain, beautiful, and in the same vein, I also enjoyed a lot my yearly calendar from Sandy, this time featuring our trip to Barcelona and Platja. Other gifts were a pretty angel, coloring books (very popular and fun to color), an Amaryllis plant and more:)

After we opened the gifts, I cooked sausage and bacon and waffles for breakfast.
For our Christmas meal, I made escudella i carn d'olla which is the typical Catalan Christmas soup, it has chicken, beef, meatballs, potatoes, garbanzos, carrots, and marrow boners. It's a rich soup. We also had breaded pork and roasted asparagus, and turrones for dessert, and of course, some Cava.

Saturday, the 3 of us went to El Torito Grill for lunch. It was very tasty. Then we came home and just rested and watched TV. We had leftovers for dinner.
Sunday Marv had dialysis (changed the days because of the holidays) Lizzie took him and then we went out to lunch to El Chile Verde. Then she left to San Diego. Thanks Lizzie for spending some quality time with the seniors ;)
When Marvin got home, he was not feeling too well, The rest of Sunday was just restful.

I hope you all had a great Christmas!

Just 5 more days for the new year!