I have spent the past week just enjoying being at home with family and friends and not worrying about the blog world too much. My RSS feed is slam packed and I am looking forward to reading about all my blog friends Holiday shenanigans.
Christmas Eve has quickly become my favorite part of the Holiday. I seem to enjoy it much more than Christmas day now that I am older and the “excitement” of Christmas has seemed to fade away with adulthood. I have been assured multiple times, by many, that once I start having my own children the excitement will come back full-force. We will all be waiting a very long time for that day, so let’s just continue to enjoy Christmas Eve! 
We have traditions in the Garlow house, long-standing traditions that we would not let our parents get away with missing. The Moravian Love Feast is a newer tradition, but one I love just the same, even if it is because the coffee and sweet rolls. But really, can a Moravian pass me y’alls recipe? They always seem to get the perfect amount of cream and sugar in their coffee, and don’t get me started on my love affair with carbs.
After I ate three sweet rolls and chugged two cups of coffee, danced a little bit to the Lion King themed tune “Going to Bethlehem,” the Garlow’s were off to Monte Del Rey for our tradition of feasting on Mexican food. {{It used to be a Chinese buffet, but one year it was just really bad so we switched to something equally as solid – Mexican.}} To our dismay, MDR was CLOSED!? Mexicans never close early on Christmas Eve, and we were deeply saddened, but just went to the next best Mexican Restaurant, Mi Pueblo.
Where my mom needed her old lady glasses. She really wears those out in public.
Where brothers and sisters look nothing alike
And where they turned their eye when I put the rest of my margarita in a to-go cup. Merry Christmas to you too, Juan!
Our next stop was the Tanglewood Festival of Lights. This started probably… 8-10 years go when we realized nobody, and I mean NOBODY goes through the lights on Christmas Eve. It was glorious. I rode with the van door open and took all kinds of pictures. Since there was nobody in front or behind us, I was able to jump out and get some pictures without the van mirror in the shot. This was probably the funnest FOL we have ever been to. I may or may not give the 44oz. Monster Margarita the credit on this one.
I love the bow!
Well there was your brief tour through Tanglewood. If you are ever in Clemmons/Winston-Salem/Greensboro/High Point/lots of other surrounding cities, you should definitely go through the lights! It is all Clemmons can do to compete with the Moravians in Winston-Salem.
The night ended with the opening of Christmas jammies and the spreading of Reindeer food.
And I hope y’all had a Very Merry Christmas!
p.s I am going to Nashville tomorrow for the Music City Bowl with two of my friends and we need some recommendations for good places to eat/see/do! If you have been to Nashvegas and have any suggestions, please let me know!
Katelyn
Dude…we were going to eat Mexican for Christmas Eve dinner too, with Isaiah’s brother and sister in law, but they closed early also!! I called a few days before and was told they’d be open until 8pm, but when we got there at 5:30 they were closed. Ridiculous. We ended up eating – you guessed it – Chinese. The only place in the entire town open for dinner. Disgusting.
I love love feast buns! So good!
My favorite place to eat in Nashville is Whitt’s BBQ. If you’re only gonna be downtown, Jack’s BBQ is good.