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I'm not sure why

jwg and I take any particular note of this holiday, but our parents did, too, so why not? We get a tree and decorate it, as you can see here, and we make ourselves a festive dinner. For many years,

jwg's mother visited him (and then us) over the holiday, and sometimes we had other friends who were not spending time with their families of origin over as well. In more recent years, we established a tradition of alternating hosting Christmas dinner with

pinkfish and

fj, but that necessarily ceased when they moved thousands of miles away.

But we still make ourselves a festive dinner. We couldn't remember for sure what we had last year (we looked in vain for LJ postings on the subject), but thought it was probably roast duck, so we decided this year to roast a couple of Rock Cornish Game Hens, with an orange-rice stuffing; plus a casserole of yams and apples, sauteed snap peas, and a green salad with a mustard vinaigrette, all washed down with an Edna Valley pinot noir, and followed with a (store-bought) cranberry linzer torte. All very nice.

Anyway, I'm mostly posting this so as to have documentation that we can consult next year when decided what to have for Christmas dinner.