Brinner

Emily went out for the PTA Holiday Dinner, so I gave the kids dinner -- brinner, we call it, as in breakfast for dinner. Scrambled eggs, bacon, english muffins or corn toasties, grapefruit, orange juice. Basically it's a meal I can make without really taking the time to cook, although you really have to be attentive to get that bacon just right.

They gobbled it all up (Kate: "I love scrambled eggs AND hard boiled eggs!"), we had lemon cookies for dessert, and then watched A Charlie Brown Christmas for about the third time. I sat between them, the tree was lit up and beautiful, the stockings were hung by the chimney with some degree of care (and the Elf on the Shelf peeking out of one of them), and the show was as great as ever. And so were they.