Your honour(s),
Although DD(12) is an unrepentant carnivore, I plead to be excused from the botheration that is xmas dinner assemblage.
The defence offers up that I am a veggie that hardly eats at the best of time. We are a 2 person household. I paid for DD to have xmas dinner at school before breaking up. I have offered to drive her to her dad's for xmas dinner and spend the day after she opens her pressies at home with me. We are spending 27-29th with family where she will have a zillion post xmas turkey honouring dinners. I am a lazy bint. I will gag if I touch raw meat (it's bad enough making meat containing pack lunches).
As a concession, I am willing to go hunting for a microwave meal after I drop her off to guitar lesson in a few minutes. Yes, I am the saddo that intends to shout surprise as I offer up a ready meal to my child on xmas day...Though I may be judged harshly by the jury, I ask that counsel refrains from calling SS upon sentence being passed.