preparing for santa

We just got back from our traditional Christmas Eve dinner -- sushi! We've been doing it for a few years now.

It used to be Chinese ever since I was a kid -- which was passed down from my mother's family as well. When the Chinese restaurant we always went to closed, we switched to a different one, and shortly after it switched again to Japanese.

My parents won't eat sushi (they get Japanese dishes instead), but we "kids" all split a few trays.

Delicious, but I'm very full now!

Once dinner settles, we'll have leftover desserts from last night (including a very yummy egg nog ice cream that I really want to make rum or whiskey floats with!), and then it's off to bed.

We wouldn't want Santa to pass us over because some twenty- and thirty-something children are not asleep!