It’s Christmas Eve, and we began the day visiting Bethany at her new house (well, new to us, anyway). The cat is Sadie, who has the most adorable face, dontcha think?

Sadie cat Bethany's new home
the view from Bethany's back porch

The rest of the day was spent baking Christmas cookies, the traditional Christmas Pizza (this is a family which holds dear their yuletide traditions), and a rousing game of dominoes. I made my first Pizzelles (maybe a tad too browned—oops), and dipped the peanut butter balls in melted chocolate. We had plenty of chocolate left over, so we just started dipping anything else that sounded good: pretzels, pecans, fingers… we’re all set for tomorrow’s arrival of Jack and Alicia (Ted’s brother and brother’s girl).

Pizzelle dough Pizzelles
Peanut butter balls, sans chocolate coating Peanut butter balls, with chocolate coating Chocolate covered pretzels