Christmas Day 2012
Love is all you need... The Beatles
Glimpses of our fabulous holiday!
Well the suspense nearly killed us all! I’ve hardly slept a wink all night,
combination of a creaky house, a dog that doesn’t relax and fidgets at every
noise and every time someone goes to the toilet, a cracking storm and a little
bit of anticipation for Christmas morning and hoping the kids get everything they
want and that they are happy.
But first let’s go back to the holiday so far and the few things
that have made me smile, let’s start with Sunday night, Lynne and I decided to
have cheese and crackers and a hot baguette, we asked mom if she fancied some
and she said no, she’s got no appetite these days. So off we trotted into the kitchen and 15
minutes later when we sat down at the kitchen table, mom sat down too, Lynne
put the tray of cheese down, the crackers and the plate with the baguette
chopped up and mom reached over and put the baguette in front of her and
chomped away as we sat there with our empty plates, staring at each other in
disbelief at this woman who has no appetite who was demolishing a 12 inch
baguette that had been cut in six and lathered in butter! After eating four pieces mom announces, “I
just can’t eat anymore, I wasn’t really that hungry!” Meanwhile we’re sat there like begging,
starving homeless people grateful for the gift of food. We didn’t like to say anything because we
were just happy to see her eating something and enjoying them. Crazy, funny old lady!
Yesterday morning, mom’s sat there telling us how there are
lights coming up through her floorboards, we deduce that it’s the kitchen fitted
ceiling lights shining upwards. She looks
at me and Lynne like we’re idiots and decides she wants a professional opinion
which apparently has to be from a man!
When poor Ian finally wakes up and comes down she greets him with, “Ian
I want you to come in my bed room”, he looked terrified until we explained why
;-).
Yesterday afternoon we had a treasure hunt, I’d like to add
at this point it took me hours to think up, put together the clues and wrap all
the presents – it took them 20 minutes from beginning to end for them to
complete! So it starts that they have to
help Santa to find his reindeers because they’ve all been partying the night
before , then they have to help Santa find all the presents that are strewn
around the house using the clues provided.
Half way through Jen says, “How can Santa remember where he put all the
presents to write the clues but he can’t find them himself?” Kids logic, couldn’t you just lock em in a
cupboard for a few days!
The clock in the kitchen of our cottage is wrong and we can’t
be bothered to change the battery, but yesterday the kids were getting so
confused, constantly asking how many hours till Christmas day, what time was
it, Jen at one point said, “In the kitchen it’s tomorrow!” We weren’t convinced and she didn’t get to
move time.
We watched the Grinch last night and Jen came out with this
beautiful explanation when one character proposed to another with the offer of
a big flash ring and a new car, she said, “You don’t marry someone for money,
you marry them for their attitude and personality”. Now that’s what it should be about, shame it
isn’t always isn’t it?
We did giggle last night and we were actually sober, Lynne
and I were sat there in our pj’s watching tele and talking rubbish, Jen took
our photo and Lynne remarked how we will have to reign in our eating come new
year as we look a bit heavier and commented how she was thin last summer, I
replied “I was thin in 1922 in my last life!”
I looked at the photo and said we don’t look no different, her response,
“Yeah we just stopped breathing in.”
We then watched some animal programme about biggest pets and
they were saying how a snake can crush you and break your ribs, we were all
trying to decide how many ribs a human had, someone said 16, Lynne replied, “You’ve
got nowhere near 16 ribs, you’ve only got 8 on each side.” And this is her sober, just imagine a few
lagers later!
Listening to mom and Lynne do the Christmas crossword as I
type, there’s a thousand clues, they’ve been at it for days on and off, they’re
singing the answers to each other, making answers up, anything they realise is
wrong is Ian’s fault! There’s Christmas
tunes on in the background, a turkey in the oven and a bowl of Christmas
crackers on the table, the dinner will get as much effort put into it as any
other roast dinner, make a good gravy and they always taste great, plus if we
have a few beforehand we’ll eat anything, and the kids leave most of everything
anyway.
So it’s Christmas day and we’ve been up four and a half
hours, and everything has been opened and played with already. I’m sat drinking babycham, it’ll help me
survive the day, purely medicinal of course.
So the rule was no one could get
up before six and we all had to come down together, well I woke up at 12, then
again at 2 and finally 4 before I just couldn’t go back to sleep, I went to the
toilet and noticed mom was awake so we sat and chatted for a couple of hours
cursing the kids for behaving and staying asleep!
Eventually they woke and we all went down to see a huge pile
of gifts from Santa, wonderful watching them open their presents and even
better watching them play with them now, they’re unfortunately NOT keeping them
quiet!
I’ve had a fabulous gift off Lynne, ‘Bev’s special selection
box”, she knows I’m not a huge chocolate fan so she’s put me together a box of miniature
liquers nom nom, can’t wait to indulge in those, she’s also got me a memo pad with
an insult a day in case I get sick of calling her a knob ;-)
I did escape the madness for an hour for a lovely walk down
to the beach and along the coastal path, blew away the cobwebs.
Now for the rest of the days, a nice meal, a few games and a
lot of laughs. Xxx
Thank you to everyone who’s bought me a gift, always
appreciated even though there’s nothing a yearn for these days really, I’ve got
everything. I’ve got some amazing
friends, I’ve met some new super sparkly sharp friends this year and know so
many wonderful Weight Watcher people, and I’m a very lucky lady.
Happy Christmas everyone, enjoy the rest of the day. xx
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