At what seemed like 4am this morning, two little boys came into our bedroom shouting "It's Christmas, It's Christmas!" It was actually 7am. They jumped on us and then climbed in with us, had a quick cuddle and then went off to wake Moo. We decided to get up and the message came downstairs that Moo would get up when her croissants and coffee were ready.
We all sat around and watched the boys open their stocking presents from Santa. The usual apple for Small. Lots of chocolate coins and bits and bobs. Everyone but Moo got a satsuma, silly Santa put two in mine and none in hers. Tut tut. The kids were like mad-unwrapping-things, tearing and opening everything until it was all gone and then piling the grown-ups presents up and helping to unwrap ours before they got bored and went and played their new pokemon game on the wii. At around 11:30 we realised the turkey took 4.5 hours to cook and we hadn't put it in yet so it went in the oven and we had a quick snack of cheese and biscuits at lunchtime to tide us over.
Socks, Lego, Ski goggles, Body Warmers, Leftover Leo, Hat and Gooey Louie
The adults took the rest of the morning to open their presents then it was a skype to Grandma and Grandad and a chat to all the crew. There was general silliness in their household and they were waiting for their third course!
It snowed for us, not too heavily but nice enough to see out of the windows. The boys went out and played but not for too long as it was cold. -17* first thing! We bought the boys snow bricks to make a fort but it was the 'wrong kind of snow'.
The Boys, their bricks and the ice
Moo bought the boys remote controlled helicoptors so we had much fun flying them into the walls, ceiling, up my legs. They won't work in the same room without the remotes setting each other's off so one boy was in the kitchen wrecking it and the other was in the basement trying to manouvre the table tennis table.
Catapults, London icons, Christmas Jumper, Dragon Hands, Helicopters and Union Jack House pants.
Finally dinner was ready. Moo and I had a lentil nut loaf which was lovely (thanks NoCustard for the recipe). Huffle and Smallest had turkey and Small had Spanakopita. We all had roast potatoes and parsnips and many veg. Yummy. We couldn't do pudding until much later when we had Treacle Sponge and Custard and Christmas Pudding and Brandy sauce. We set the pudding alight - the boys thought we were crazy. Smallest had his first Christmas Pudding and asked "is there any alcohol in it?" OH YES. "Then put me in a wheelbarrow and take me to Thailand" he said. (This is a quote from a hobo we saw at centre Island in the Summer who was drunk and being transported in a wheelbarow by his hobo friends). He obviously associates alcohol with hobos now!!! Oh dear.
Gooey Louie game, Lord of the Rings chess, quiet dot to dotting, a general Christmas doing and a pudding on fire.
There was a lot of lego played with, rubber band bracelets made, chess played and gooey louie played (yukky thing you pull bogies out of his nose and make his brain pop out!!!). Then some TV, a bit of wine, a cup of tea and a nice relaxing evening.
WHAT A LOVELY DAY AND HOW GRATEFUL WE ARE THAT WE HAD A CHRISTMAS DAY. Some people here in Ontario are still without power due to the Ice Storm and some in the UK too due to their weather. I feel for them. I know how awful it is, hopefully they can have a Christmas Day soon.
HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE x
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