“Joseph Smith’s Last Christmas”

A little item — don’t expect too much — from the non-LDS historian John Turner:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2015/12/joseph-smiths-last-christmas/

As for us, we’ve been hitting some of the family Christmas traditions:

We had the missionaries (Sister Lawson and Sister Gerrigues) over last night for a Cuban pork dinner, accompanied by juca (or cassava) and beans and rice and followed up by a fairly close analogue of “figgy pudding.”  (We had had them over for pizza on Tuesday night.)  And they helped us make baklava, which they were able to enjoy today when they came over to make their FaceTime and Skype calls home.  We also had Norwegian lefse today, and will, I think, have a Swiss cheese fondue later today.

And, of course, we’ve walked the dogs.  And shared gifts.  And listened to music.  And, right now, we’re going to laugh at an episode or two or three or four of Parks and Recreation.

A good day.

Posted from Richmond, Virginia