Christmas Eve & HoneyBaked Ham

Happy Christmas Eve -- hope your day is relatively calm and full of fun & love.

It's finally here, and now, kind of suddenly, almost over:

• Some light cleaning and a lot of wrapping today and tonight;
  one quick trip to the grocery store.
• Grammy (my crazy mother) is coming for Christmas Eve Dinner.
  She's bringing her famous Pumpkin Pie.

There's a whole story there, how she ended up moving back home to Seattle with a one-way plane ticket on Nov. 15th, only to be back in Atlanta on Nov. 26th. But let's not go there. We can talk about the Sandwich Generation another time.

You know I cooked on Thanksgiving -- the whole thing, and it was great good, but a lot of work for the Chicken Nugget crowd, if you know what I mean. (They didn't go for the elegant Stuffed Turkey, or anything else, really, by the time it was all ready, and then all that clean up -- please!)

For Christmas, I ordered HBH -- HoneyBaked Ham, Baby. As in all things, we have learned simpler is always better, less is definitely more, so along with the Ham, I ordered Sweet Potato Souffle, Green Bean Casserole, Pumpkin Pie and a Cheesecake Sampler. (I didn't know Grammy was bringing her Pumpkin Pie when I placed the order online -- shhhh!!.) Throw in the white-trash dinner rolls and canned cranberry sauce, add eggnog, and we're done.

Done, with leftovers:

• Big dinner tonight;
• Ham & Cheese Biscuits Christmas Morning;
• Ham Sandwiches for Christmas Lunch;
• Ham & Potato Salad for Christmas Dinner (along with all the other leftovers, and our friends' leftovers, too, as we're spending the aftermath slothing with friends);
• Ham & Scalloped Potatoes the Day After...

Love that HBH.