Wednesday 1 January 2014

Christmas 2013 and the welcoming of 2014

Christmas was magical this year, I stayed up till half 2 on Christmas morning with Mike making sure that each last touch for the following morning was perfect from the Braided Nutella bread for breakfast to the tree decorations being picture perfect including the final touch of chocolate on the tree which always has to wait till the last night else it would be gone weeks before the big day with the tree tipped up to find them.

All the children had a great day on Christmas day lots of excitement, our 2 yr old AJ missed the big meal due to tiredness so ate his turkey and sprouts at 8pm or something like that after his older brothers had retired for the night. It was extra special sharing the day with J&L and my Mum and Dad and introducing them to some throughly english parts of the holidays like Yorkshire puddings on the Roast Dinner, and Terry's Chocolate Oranges which i searched high and low to find last min as I had forgotten to buy them ahead of time. The boys made Giant Gingerbread Men nearly the size of an A4 sheet of paper and we had a feast on Boxing day with a table of biscuts, cakes and a cheeseboard we are still finishing off.

New Years went off with a bang though Mum was asleep as were all the boys but Mike and I shared a bottle of Asti with my Dad and J&L enjoyed the night we watched Grace Card ( fantastic film ) to pass the time after dinner then played a few rounds of Bannnagrams ( which was Dad's Christmas present ) which is a great game and I know I will be buying another one when Dad takes his back to AU with him.

Today ( New Years day ) I didn't get up till this afternoon though I had to wake up a couple of times to feed Christopher and we had homemade pizzas for a late lunch this afternoon. so we are still working out what we are planning to do for dinner and then figure out what we want to do tomorrow as there was talk of a day trip out to see things.

My Parents brought us a second car which they are using while here and our First car is getting a new set of tires on Friday as a Christmas present from us to us to keep the car on the road as we are looking towards a cold probably icy January.

Thats all from me for now since AJ is up from his nap and cranky as anything so needs my attention.
Ciao