Eggnog - a Christmas comfort drink

It’s that time of year again: Christmas. I didn’t sign up for, but I’m bound to it like a contract emblazoned with holly.

It’s like the Terms of Service to a software update. You just scroll down to the bottom and you hit “I Agree.” I don’t remember exactly when I agreed to Christmas, but it appears I did. And so did you.

And so we all enter Christmas together, hand in hand, an inexorable march towards ugly sweater parties. It’s no wonder that so many people drink through the holidays, clutching on to their glass of holiday cheer for dear life. Digits flickering under their eyelids like licks of flame in a toasty fireplace: a glimpse of a credit card statement.

Eggnog is a classic Christmas comfort drink made with eggs, milk, and rum - spiced only with nutmeg.

My mom got stopped at the airport in Helsinki. They told her she needed a visitor visa to travel to Canada to see her kids for Christmas. Rest assured, an easy fix, but apparently irreparably complicated by her permanent resident status in Canada - a vestige of her previous life in the 1990s when she last lived here. For geopolitical reasons that defy my earnest Canadian mind this meant that she couldn’t come visit for Christmas this year. Naturally, I blame Trump. He’s the Grinch and he ruined my mother’s Christmas.

They say right before you die of hypothermia you feel warm. That's kind of what I think drinking eggnog is like.

And so in this post I give a nod to eggnog. Consuming eggnog is like being hugged from the inside out during a blizzard. They say that right before you die of hypothermia you feel warm. That’s kind of what I think drinking eggnog is like. Consisting of egg yolks, sugar, milk and rum, it’s basically all the elements of a hearty cake. You just ditch the flour and sub in booze.

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