Christmas is almost here! Posted on December 15, 2009 by Pogue Mahone Standard Reply I can’t believe Christmas is almost here! Next Friday! The kids are all getting excited and I want the same thing I always want every Christmas: snow!(so far we have it….)Next week our 2 oldest kids away at university will also be coming home for a 2 week visit,and on Christmas Eve we have Mass and when we come home we continue the tradition of opening one gift each,and save the others for Christmas morning as well as the stockings for the kids, filled with candies and little toys,and have a big dinner in the diningroom! We’re taking 2 weeks off homeschooling for Christmas break and have the usual treats of various chocolates, Stollen, egg nog,pffernusse cookies,sugar cookies,and will have ambrosia(a dessert made of whipped cream mixed with diced fruit and marshmallows) and pumpkin pie, and we’re having both ham and turkey for dinner as well as different types of potatoes and veggies. I get excited just thinking about it!! 🙂