Christmas Eve, how is everyone?

Hi Rowan21, enjoy your presents day, take things slow, and have a wonderful time with your family and friends.. x

Hi Rowan. 
Christmas Eve was always presents day when I grew up with Polish parents. 

After university I never lived at home again and things changed.

Now my daughter lives in Berlin where life has come full circle and she opens presents as I did as a child. Funny isn’t it?! 

Husband and I are together on our own. I’m cooking Mary Berry’s Coq au Vin pie for tomorrow followed by panettone bread and butter pudding. Much made in advance so I can have lots of Buck’s Fizz for breakfast

Tonight is fish in traditional Polish fashion but not style. Maybe a Bailey’s in ice for pudding  

Life goes on and is pretty good once you get through all the treatment rubbish  

Ha, we are partly German too (Cologne area) and partly Scandinavian. Been in the UK for over a decade but if you ask if people want to open their gifts 1 day earlier or later you can imagine the answer. 

I think in Germany you also get presents on 6th Dec. 

Your dinner sounds yummy!

We will have oven baked salmon tonight with potato mash and sprouts. I have not sorted any puddings. I bought some ready rolled flakey pastry and it went off. Was going to make plum pastries (look up Finnish joulutorttu). 

There will be a rebellion

We spent Xmas in Warsaw in 2010 and got a lot of fish in jelly and beetroots. It was something to remember. 

Hope you will ha e a good festive period. 

You too Loz! I hope everyone will be lucky enough to relax and enjoy. 

Rowan21 said:

Hope you will ha e a good festive period. 

You too

Rowan21 said:

We spent Xmas in Warsaw in 2010 and got a lot of fish in jelly and beetroots.

Ha ha  my mum was pretty fond of beetroot  I hate it now! 

I know you have your impending surgery hanging over your head but there’s nothing you can do about it so throw it out of the window for now. Have a lovely Christmas xx

By the way. NORAD started this in 1955 but we had no internet for my daughter thirty years later but I must admit that even at the age of 73 I do look in 

https://www.noradsanta.org/en/map

i do hope some way some how each and everyone of u all find a little way to enjoy crimbo those who celebrate it any way and iam thinking of all those feeling to crap to enjoy any of it or even care its xmas this year due to treatment etc love donna xx

Hi my first Christmas post treatment was 4 month after radiotherapy and chemo had finished. I decided just me and hubby that’s year the family had booked a Brazilian all you can eat meat place. I had a Christmas dinner no starter no,pudding  dinner was on a tea sized plate which was swimming in  Gravy did I enjoy it not really but here I am fast approaching 7 years. 

This year Christmas Eve I’ve got most if extended family for Christmas Eve tea the ham is in the oven tomorrow we’re at our daughters just 5 of us and a rib of beef . Life does go on I might even manage a weak gin-and tonic.

As Dani  doesn’t like beetroot I adore it but not pickled vinegars, no good for my mouth any more just shows we might have a similar treatment but all end up different food and drink wise. 

To those who are in treatment or have treatment coming up just remember take it one day at a time and on the MacMillan community were a small band of brothers and sisters who are all only  too happy to help anyone. We know a little about a lot to do with head and neck cancers if we can help we will

hugs Hazel x

That sounds lovely Hazel! And kike so much food I am definitely cooking more than our stomachs can handle. 

Enjoy!

Well said Donna, merry Christmas!