i'm working the day before and after, so it will be a quiet day here. my birth family lives 180 miles north of me, so i won't be able to go visit. i'll invite some friends over and we'll eat, then play board games. it it snows, the dogs will play in that at the park. i have the new years' holiday offf, so i'll go my mothers house then. carole, christmas is in early winter here, so snow, jackets, sledding, hot cocoa and snowballs are major parts of my memories, i smiled when you said you didn't want to cook in a hot kitchen .