I made us a huge Christmas breakfast of blue corn cakes with sour cream and smoked salmon, grits, eggs and sausage, and we relaxed all day, called family on the phone and watched some Christmas stuff and listend to Christmas music.

Christmas night was lovely. Genevieve lit all her Christmas candles, and I made a pretty good meal -- some orange and ginger-scented peas, a salad of spinach and Maytag blue cheese with a bacon-walnut viaigrette, and massive pork chops stuffed with shrimp with a shrimp bordelaise sauce. Very filling indeed. Afterward we watched a movie.