What is Your Favorite Christmas Dish? (PARTY!)

[ValerieJ]

We aren't all that into New Year's Eve or New Year's Day. We're just continuing the holiday glow of relaxation (I avoid post Christmas sales and shopping like the plague!). And we'll be finishing up leftovers (and struggling into our jeans) for a good while. No particular wish to amp up any new preparations.

In years past, we used to take off the day after Christmas for a ski trip. We'd load up the slow cooker and the bread machine and some groceries and decompress in the mountains.

Mountain New Year's (First Night, in Canada) celebrations are very outdoor, very wholesome, very family. Things like torch-lit parades on skis from the top of the mountain to the village below. Midnight sledding for the kids on the lower hills surrounding the village. Fireworks. Folks who were drinking being on foot instead of in cars. Everyone trudging home pulling toboggans of sleepy (or fully amped) kids. Can't say how much I miss that!

Sounds like a winter wonderland....I can hear the sleigh bells ring!!!