Late on Christmas Eve, with Tim out at the local midnight service, two children tucked up in bed and a very uncooperative baby getting in the way of wrapping presents I wondered if I was ever going to be ready at all. Somehow though, it all came together, and I was.
Big had already said that she and Small were going to have breakfast and get dressed while waiting for us to wake up – she didn’t want to disturb us in case soa had given us a bad night. She really is very adorable when she puts her mind to it 🙂 So it was around 9 when I’d had a cup of tea and we made it into the living room to find the pillowcases of parcels that somehow had come down the chimney last night 😉 And wouldn’t you know it, Santa had eaten the sausage rolls and mince pies, and taken the notes that the children had left! Even the carrot sticks had gone, guess the reindeer liked them.
(All of which amuses me hugely – in her younger days Big was utterly terrified of Santa, especially of the idea that he could make it into ppl’s houses, and we had to explain that he was an idea rather than a reality. She seems to have undergone somewhat of a change of beliefs and is utterly convinced of his reality now, at least externally it would appear!)
Present pile was well received, particularly the Harry Potter – Interactive Hermione Granger Wand
and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Mad Eye Moody Magical Eye and Electronic Interactive Wand Set
. They interact, so much duelling went on for the rest of the day 🙂
I think Small’s favourite present though was the charity shop bargain – a red power ranger dress up suit. He wore it for the entire day over the top of his new Christmas shirt! Plasticine My Own Morph
went down well too, and they both had a good go with it. Big looked beautiful in her size 6 women’s jumper dress – I do have pictures, but babe is stirring so I don’t think I have time to add them right now. soa looked beautiful too in her dress from Auntie K, and cardigan birth present set from Layla 🙂
Tim was quite pleased with his assorted parcels – the children bought him a purple monster puppet, and I’d found Time After Time: The Best of Cyndi Lauper
as well as The Accidental Spy [DVD] [2001]
and Tomy Rummikub Travel Game
. I’m hoping that might be something we can play as a family.
Once the present fest was over here we went round to Tim’s brother’s for Christmas lunch. S had excelled herself (as she usually does it has to be said) and not only was there wonderful food and good company, but she’d even laid in activity books and dvds to keep the children amused when adults were chatting. soa was pretty well behaved and of course there were plenty of ppl to cuddle her in between feeding times, so that went well as well.
All in all, a very lovely, low key Christmas. We had a similarly pleasant Boxing day spent round with D and S again, polishing off some of the leftover food and watching Miracle On 34th Street
which we’d got for Big as part of her Christmas pile. (I like to make sure that they each get something to watch, something to read, something to wear, nightclothes and something to play with – not an excessive pile and given that they have plenty of relatives who tend to supply toys as well, they do pretty well out of Christmas. Not quite sure when we’re going to see my side of the family mind, but will have to sort something out v soon.)
Right, my writing time is up as the baby needs a nappy change. Back later with updates of time since Christmas.
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