Hey, at this rate, I'll soon be blogging about January events! Well, I have to say, it was a good thing we hadn't planned to go anywhere on Christmas because by Christmas Eve day, we had a layer of ice on the ground rapidly being covered with snow and we would not have been able to travel anyway. Especially since there was a tremendous wind creating some big drifts. When we got up Christmas morning, we looked out and there didn't seem to be too much snow, but it was still an adventure getting to Christmas morning Mass. First of all, when Dan opened the garage door, there right in front of it was a very large drift, which fortunately we were able to plow through. Now, living out in the country, our roads do not rate a speedy plowing. Thus, when we turned west to drive down the usual road just north of our house, we shortly were in for a challenge. The road was entirely drifted shut. Putting the car into reverse, Dan drove backwards until the intersection and we went a different way. A roundabout way, as in we didn't get to church until the opening song was starting and the priest was ready to process in. I felt lucky that we got there at all.
Visiting Baby Jesus in our church after Mass.
Then there was our ham fiasco. With the high winds and blowing snow, we had periodically lost power, but only for seconds at a time (thank goodness, as the temperatures were bitterly cold). Well, we had planned to cook the ham before we left for Mass and then reheat when we got back. Dan even got up early to get the ham in the oven. Not even an hour later, we had one of those brief power outages, and in the flurry of getting everyone ready to leave, I didn't even think to check the oven. Yes, you guessed it, the oven didn't turn back on when the power came back, so we had an uncooked ham sitting in the oven.
So one of the ways we postponed our dinner was with a "wine" party. Sparkling grape juice anyone? The kids thought it very exciting to drink out of champagne glasses.
Ah, here we are, sitting down to our lovely ham dinner, which they all ate very well. It was a happy day in the Brungardt household!
Hey, at this rate, I'll soon be blogging about January events! Well, I have to say, it was a good thing we hadn't planned to go anywhere on Christmas because by Christmas Eve day, we had a layer of ice on the ground rapidly being covered with snow and we would not have been able to travel anyway. Especially since there was a tremendous wind creating some big drifts. When we got up Christmas morning, we looked out and there didn't seem to be too much snow, but it was still an adventure getting to Christmas morning Mass. First of all, when Dan opened the garage door, there right in front of it was a very large drift, which fortunately we were able to plow through. Now, living out in the country, our roads do not rate a speedy plowing. Thus, when we turned west to drive down the usual road just north of our house, we shortly were in for a challenge. The road was entirely drifted shut. Putting the car into reverse, Dan drove backwards until the intersection and we went a different way. A roundabout way, as in we didn't get to church until the opening song was starting and the priest was ready to process in. I felt lucky that we got there at all. 
Visiting Baby Jesus in our church after Mass. 
Then there was our ham fiasco. With the high winds and blowing snow, we had periodically lost power, but only for seconds at a time (thank goodness, as the temperatures were bitterly cold). Well, we had planned to cook the ham before we left for Mass and then reheat when we got back. Dan even got up early to get the ham in the oven. Not even an hour later, we had one of those brief power outages, and in the flurry of getting everyone ready to leave, I didn't even think to check the oven. Yes, you guessed it, the oven didn't turn back on when the power came back, so we had an uncooked ham sitting in the oven. 
So one of the ways we postponed our dinner was with a "wine" party. Sparkling grape juice anyone? The kids thought it very exciting to drink out of champagne glasses. 
Ah, here we are, sitting down to our lovely ham dinner, which they all ate very well. It was a happy day in the Brungardt household! 
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