It’s Christmas Eve and the kitchen is a mess
everything crusted with flour as more pastry is made
because someone has eaten all the mince pies already.
The jelly stuffed full of Rum soaked sponges has finally set
providing a foundation for our Christmas Trifle
and the Christmas Cake has been iced
with red rocketships rather than holly.
Meanwhile someone is melting dark chocolate
to make a Yule Log the way Grandad used to
and not looking guilty at all.
I smile and close the door on my adult sons as
their chocolate fuelled laughter resounds in my ears.
Christmas is finally here!
Copyright © 2020 Kim Whysall-Hammond
This poem has appeared here for the last two years, but I want to share it once again! It describes our own little Christmas Eve tradition, where our two sons spend Christmas Eve in the Kitchen making Trifle and baking cakes and Mince Pies.
This tradition started any years ago, when I would leave the bulk of the Christmas baking until Christmas Eve, and have an all day marathon with my two little boys. By the time Daddy came home from work, they were happy and above all tired. Not over excited at all, so sleep came easy to them and Father Christmas (aka Dad) could drink his Calvados, eat his mince pie and fill those stockings.
The mess is a family joke –when they were young, somehow the house on Christmas Eve was littered with floury handprints…
After two lockdown Christmases, someone is able to spend Xmas with us once more. Hurray!!!!!
It is probably time to out the someone who always eats the first batch of Mince pies — it is our eldest son…….