'Grey's Anatomy' recap: Family Affairs

Finally, everyone ended up at Meredith's house for Christmas dinner, resulting in a holiday tableaux that felt like a sort-of weird Grey's Anatomy dream sequence. Arizona and the Chief were duetting on ''Baby, It's Cold Outside'' while Owen played the guitar and Teddy made eyes at him. And Asher was there? Oh, right, Meredith gave him that organ and he is Lexie's dad. Fine. Not all was perfect, though. He told Meredith the Chief was an alcoholic in denial, but she got all snippy and asked him if he was drinking when he abandoned her as a child. When he said no, she shot back, ''Well, then, we can't blame the world's evils on alcohol, can we?'' Miranda and her father then arrived, after she'd successfully fixed Heartless Girl's bowel problem. But Daddy Bailey scolded her when she proclaimed her joy over the surgery at the table (complete with the dinner-unfriendly word ''bowel''). She delivered a classic Bailey monologue — long, awkward pauses and all — defending herself: ''Part of my happiness is the fact that I got to repair a woman's bowel and save her life tonight. That is God's work.'' Now pass the green beans!

New Year's
Lexie pushed Mark to talk to his daughter about leaving — ''talk to her right now or no more sex for you'' — and, of course, Sloan's Daughter Sloan revealed she was pregnant and had nowhere to go. Happy New Year's, Lexie! Please keep all your appendages intact this time!

Derek got his instruments and performed his Miracle of the Week … just as midnight struck, and everyone kissed each other in celebration through their masks. The Cristina-Owen-Teddy triumvirate celebrated with some fireworks of their own with a great succession of scenes. First there was that bit where Cristina saw Owen and thought he was looking at her with affection only to realize he was watching Teddy that way. Then there was Owen's wonderfully direct way of dealing with that, by immediately pulling Teddy into a vacant room and confronting her about her confession of feelings for him last week. ''I have loved you when I was single,'' she told him. ''I have loved you when I was coupled up.'' Then her worst nightmare (and our best dream) happened: He said he loved Cristina now … just as Teddy got a page from Cristina. She'd found a heart from a brain-dead patient and was rejoicing: ''That is why New Year's Eve is my favorite holiday.'' Teddy took out her own feelings on Cristina by showing her a man sobbing over his dying daughter to bring home the fact that this wasn't all good news for everyone. But, joy, the Heartless Girl did get her heart — and that guy she'd gone on four dates with proposed! ''We went through a war together,'' he said, winning the Heavy-Handed Dialogue of the Night award. But hey, I'll take anything that leads to what came next — Cristina confronting Owen about Teddy only to be thrown up against a wall, and kissed passionately while they declared their unwavering love for each other.

Miranda finally made up with her dad and Meredith had to rescue the drunk Chief at Joe's, but let's just savor that kiss for a little while longer to get us through the holidays, shall we?

What did you think? Did you like the whirlwind tour through the holiday season? Did you, too, swoon over that Cristina-Owen embrace, or do you like Teddy better for him? How did you feel about Mark's daughter? Did you hate her as much as everyone on the show did?

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