My twelf days of Christmas - or - Everything's gonna be alright (Part 1)
After I spent the first day in this brand new year with a huge hangover, I try to sum up the last days in a brief report.
I went to visit Jon and Bine on Friday, spent a very lovely evening with them, stayed the night and went from there on Saturday back to the mother ship, err... country.
Came home to complete chaos and my parents trying to handle it. They were preparing for the party, which was going to take place on Sunday night. Unfortunately the female plague had caught up with me right that morning and the first two days are usually the ones I want to either die or rip somebodies head off. Maybe both. My back started to hurt terribly and I was hardly able to stand, not to mention help.
On Sunday evening the clan arrived. One relative after the other showed up, until our dinning room was packed with about 30 people. Every year we wonder how it's possible to fit that many in there, every year we manage and have great time.
My parents had again prepared everything for the big show: the quiz and the presents. My mother had packed again loads of parcels with weird things and the ones, who finished the quiz first, were allowed to pick and open a present first.
There were three suspicious looking ones, which might contain the Picture. Yo might remember this one... Anyway, here are a few impressions, plus my cousin finally opening the one present, that surly made his day. ;)
Oh, and my pregnant sister-in-law found herself as the brand new owner of tampons...
Christmas itself was a quiet, at least for us. We had not that much to prepare and my mother was that knackered from the last few days, that she didn't even go to Church. That's a new one. We had a lovely dinner, opened up our non-existing presents (thanks to mum for that idea, we'll never do this again!), which meant, mum had packed us some sweets, as we didn't give each other presents.
Not to forget: we sang. Again. It was similar to last year, minus three people to worsen things up. But still, we were terrible.
Christmas Day and Boxing Day were filled with panem et circenses, so to speak. We had loads to eat and in the afternoon and evening we played either "Carcasonne" or "Thurn und Taxis". If you like strategy games, try those two, they are really good.
I went to visit Jon and Bine on Friday, spent a very lovely evening with them, stayed the night and went from there on Saturday back to the mother ship, err... country.
Came home to complete chaos and my parents trying to handle it. They were preparing for the party, which was going to take place on Sunday night. Unfortunately the female plague had caught up with me right that morning and the first two days are usually the ones I want to either die or rip somebodies head off. Maybe both. My back started to hurt terribly and I was hardly able to stand, not to mention help.
On Sunday evening the clan arrived. One relative after the other showed up, until our dinning room was packed with about 30 people. Every year we wonder how it's possible to fit that many in there, every year we manage and have great time.
My parents had again prepared everything for the big show: the quiz and the presents. My mother had packed again loads of parcels with weird things and the ones, who finished the quiz first, were allowed to pick and open a present first.
There were three suspicious looking ones, which might contain the Picture. Yo might remember this one... Anyway, here are a few impressions, plus my cousin finally opening the one present, that surly made his day. ;)
Oh, and my pregnant sister-in-law found herself as the brand new owner of tampons...
Christmas itself was a quiet, at least for us. We had not that much to prepare and my mother was that knackered from the last few days, that she didn't even go to Church. That's a new one. We had a lovely dinner, opened up our non-existing presents (thanks to mum for that idea, we'll never do this again!), which meant, mum had packed us some sweets, as we didn't give each other presents.
Not to forget: we sang. Again. It was similar to last year, minus three people to worsen things up. But still, we were terrible.
Christmas Day and Boxing Day were filled with panem et circenses, so to speak. We had loads to eat and in the afternoon and evening we played either "Carcasonne" or "Thurn und Taxis". If you like strategy games, try those two, they are really good.