Just said goodnight to friends we had over to share Three Kings cake. It was special this year since one friend was in town on holiday from Dublin and came with her boyfriend, who is from Lithuania. So I got to share a bit of Mexican tradition with some very lovely and warm people. Of course they wanted the plastic baby (a stand in for baby Jesus), even as I explained that normally people don't want the baby. In Mexico, the person who usually gets the baby has to make tamales on February second, so no one wants to go through that again so soon after Christmas.

I'm so full of cake and hot chocolate (and by that I mean I'm on a serious sugar high) that a steak or any kind of animal protein sounds quite delicious right about now.