Monday: Christmas

We started out the day with bagels.  I had kept the toaster because last year it took so long to get them all toasted, and Dad and Pat brought their toaster.  It worked well.

We kept things moving.  After breakfast we had a spice tea testing.  It was a lot of fun.  I had five different teas: the original one, an expensive tea with two containers of tang, an expensive tea with three containers of tang, Lipton with lemon, and 4deg with lemon.  I found the 4deg with lemon absolutely disgusting.  I had made some of it earlier and dumped it down the drain.

Anyway, the results were that the expensive with three tang was the overall winner.  However, if you consider kids vs. adults, there were some stark differences.  The kids really didn't like expensive with two tang...it was much more tea-y than the other.  The adults really didn't like the lemon options.  Nathan convinced me to get one more tea, so we'll need to do a few more tests at a later date.

After this we opened presents.  I received a bunch of bread supplies!  Liz (and family) got me some good flours...I've only been using Meijer brand.  It's been good!  But I've heard that good flour makes a difference, so it seemed like a good thing to get for Christmas.

I also got a bread slicer!  It makes me so happy.  It works amazingly well.  I was really glad to have so many people around so that I could slice lots of bread.

The rest of the day was just having fun and playing games.  Oh!  We finished a game and I read the clock wrong, so I started making dinner.  I thought it was already 4:30 but it must have been 3:30.  Dinner was just about done when I saw a clock.  I looked at multiple clocks before admitting my mistake...and of course, no one cared.  A lot of people eat dinner early and Ben just thought that cooking it might take a while.  However, since we ate so early we ended up going rock climbing in the evening.  It was a little less busy than normal for Christmas break, so that was really nice.