Christmas Greetings - and Cake.
I hope you've all had, or are having, a lovely day spent exactly as you would want it.
We have kept it fairly simple this year - so we have only a smallish tree with a few of the decorations on it as so much is packed. Other than that there are only the cards on display.
Here is the wee tree -
I didn't knit the two snowmen, I bought them at the Christmas fayre at Cummal Mooar, but aren't they fun?
And D-d had set her heart on a cake with a train. When she was about 7 or 8 we had a tiny wind up train that ran on a tiny circle of rail and was designed to go on top of a cake. Sadly it has been lost over the years and I couldn't find another. So we have a cake with the train on the top, along with a couple of tiny icing cottages, trees, and a snowman, and the rails it can run on is around the base of the cake.
Having completed it we then sat and watched Polar Express.
We won't cut it until the children have been over to see it, run the train on the track - and open those presents in the snowmen.
S2C won 'gift of the day' I think - this for D-d, the NYM and the NYKs to share. D-d and the NYM opened it - the children are staying at his parents' tonight, and both of them ooh-ed and aaah-ed over it with great glee. (The snowmen actually contain a small Lego kit each to go with the ship.)
There is a story behind this, apart from the whole family liking Lego; D-d had Lego pirate ships as a child - she helped S2C build them, and then they sailed across the carpet attacking the Lego beach bar and anything else that caught the eye of the Zanzibarbarian crew. She passed them on when she went to university. Now she wishes she hadn't. They no longer make the ones she had, but this will be just as good, if not better!
Now, perhaps, we might have a light tea of turkey and stuffing sandwiches; D-d has taken a chunk of turkey and trimmings home with her to add to the similar haul from the NYM's parents, but we will certainly still have enough for tonight and tomorrow!
We have kept it fairly simple this year - so we have only a smallish tree with a few of the decorations on it as so much is packed. Other than that there are only the cards on display.
Here is the wee tree -
I didn't knit the two snowmen, I bought them at the Christmas fayre at Cummal Mooar, but aren't they fun?
And D-d had set her heart on a cake with a train. When she was about 7 or 8 we had a tiny wind up train that ran on a tiny circle of rail and was designed to go on top of a cake. Sadly it has been lost over the years and I couldn't find another. So we have a cake with the train on the top, along with a couple of tiny icing cottages, trees, and a snowman, and the rails it can run on is around the base of the cake.
Having completed it we then sat and watched Polar Express.
We won't cut it until the children have been over to see it, run the train on the track - and open those presents in the snowmen.
S2C won 'gift of the day' I think - this for D-d, the NYM and the NYKs to share. D-d and the NYM opened it - the children are staying at his parents' tonight, and both of them ooh-ed and aaah-ed over it with great glee. (The snowmen actually contain a small Lego kit each to go with the ship.)
There is a story behind this, apart from the whole family liking Lego; D-d had Lego pirate ships as a child - she helped S2C build them, and then they sailed across the carpet attacking the Lego beach bar and anything else that caught the eye of the Zanzibarbarian crew. She passed them on when she went to university. Now she wishes she hadn't. They no longer make the ones she had, but this will be just as good, if not better!
Now, perhaps, we might have a light tea of turkey and stuffing sandwiches; D-d has taken a chunk of turkey and trimmings home with her to add to the similar haul from the NYM's parents, but we will certainly still have enough for tonight and tomorrow!