My older daughter is making the lasagna for dinner. I am incredibly grateful to her for that. And dessert's already made.
I spent the past week cleaning to make the house tolerable for her boyfriend, who is a sweetheart, but very allergic to cats and dust. With two cats, two dogs, a messy husband and another daughter who messes up the kitchen constantly, it is not an easy task. I bought an air purifier and cat wipes to cut down on the kitties' dander.
Yesterday, with my husband and younger daughter sick, and the older one and her boyfriend rushing to do last-minute shopping, I cooked a traditional Estonian Christmas Eve dinner--roast pork, sauerkraut, potatoes and cucumber salad -- plus a vegetarian main dish, mushroom strudel, and baked 3 loaves of kringel bread and enough honey-spice cookies, to bring a plateful to the church cookie reception. Usually I do the baking a day or two earlier. Then the older daughter, her boyfriend and I went to the 8:30 pm service at the UU church.
This morning I made eggs Benedict for brunch. Now the dishwasher is running and I am ready to fall asleep. 
My older daughter and her boyfriend will head out tomorrow morning to visit his family in Pennsylvania but plan to return for New Year's Eve.
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