Christmas Part II

Charles and I traveled to Batesville for Christmas lunch with Mama and Jerry. We had a delicious lunch of ham, candied sweet potatoes, creamed potatoes, corn, butter beans, pink salad, deviled eggs, rolls and dessert of pound cake with strawberries and ice cream. After lunch came the really fun part...opening presents...

Mama always knows exactly what to get for me... She even traveled to the Delta to get the Peter's pottery tea pot I wanted (and a few other pieces)...
Mama always asks if we want presents and/or money.

I always say presents...and Charles always says money. Mama usually buys Charles a present or two anyway, but this year Charles got all money (and a little extra since he didn't get any "little presents"). That was just fine with Charles...
Mama opened her presents from me and from me and Charles (I think we did a good job this year)...

and then opened her presents from Charles (who always buys her something or two which she just loves and which I have no idea what it is until she opens the box)...Mama's presents out numbered Jerry's presents (sorry, Jerry), but he, Mama and Peanut had a good Christmas...After leaving Batesville, Charles and I went to Southaven to see what movies were playing. We were hoping that Juno would be showing but no such luck. We ended up seeing Walk Hard; it was okay. Then we drove all over town to see if any restaurants were open. Lucky for us a Chinese buffet was open.

Charles really enjoyed his Christmas egg drop soup! The whole time we were in the restaurant, we kept thinking of the scene in A Christmas Story were the family has to eat dinner at a Chinese restaurant...We left singing Fa, ra, ra, ra, ra...

We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!