In which we had a lovely first Christmas with Lentil...
I was worried about Christmas this year to be honest. I was stubborn and refused to do as we have always done (for the last 7 years) and visit all my family at Mum's on Christmas Day, then zip over to see all TheBoy's family and stay over for the night, then whizxz back over to my Grandma's for a meal on Boxing Day and we end up totally exhausted. Well with a nearly 11 month old Lentil we decided that this wasn't going to be the best plan.
I spent the early part of this week fretting about how it was all ging to turn out, but in the end we've had a great time. Lentils godmother came over in the afternoon with his first present...
Mum, Dad, Our Richard and Gemma came over on Christmas Eve to swap presents. I was all set to do a little buffet, but Mum wouldn't let me... so I just put out a few nibbles. Our Richard turned up straight from a 9 hour shift at work and at all the nibbles in about 10 mins flat, so I ended up making him a sandwich... Never would have had to happen if I'd been allowed to do a buffet would it!!!!
On Christmas Day we woke up not too early.
And got up to open our presents...
TheBoy's parents, sister and aunt came over at 11am (so I still have never been to Church on Christmas day...) We swapped presents (although they mostly gave us money this year) We had a delicious brunch of bacon, scrambled eggs, toast and sparkling wine and they left about 1.30pm. We got ourselves organised and went out for a lovely walk...
then back home to watch a film before starting on the dinner... Lentil fell asleep and slept really well for ages! All tired out!
We had to wake him up for dinner... which he really loved!
Boxing Day we went over to my Mum's for a quick lunch, called in to see Grandma and Grandad and then over to my other Grandma's for tea. It was nice to spend time with that side of the family as we don't see them anywhere near as often as we used to. But my Grandma's house is not baby friendly... and when you have 12 people in one room it's really not baby friendly! I ended up in the dining room most of the night chasing him around under the table! I won the treasure hunt though! Still not quite sure how I managed that, as I was busy with Lentil and didn't get a chance to have a sneaky look before we started and then had to look after him for about half the time everyone was looking anyways! One of the stickers was on the urn that Grandad's ashes are in... I had to blink away a tear when I discovered that one. My Grandma is so together about the whole thing, but it still gets to me. More so when she is so together...
It's been a quiet one, much slower paced than in previous years, but I have enjoyed that... everything was done on our terms and it never felt like we were rushing around to fit into other people's schedules... Next up is TheBoy's birthday on Friday, then we're having friends over for a tapas type meal on New Year's Eve and then seeing all the family again at Mum's on New Years Day. TheBoy is only working Wed and Thur this week and then is off until Jan 9th. Hopefully this means we can get all the paperwork sorted for the house and get ourselves in a position to make an offer. Yes, that does mean we have pretty much decided that we're going for it!!! Williamson Towers will be my project for 2012!
I spent the early part of this week fretting about how it was all ging to turn out, but in the end we've had a great time. Lentils godmother came over in the afternoon with his first present...
Mum, Dad, Our Richard and Gemma came over on Christmas Eve to swap presents. I was all set to do a little buffet, but Mum wouldn't let me... so I just put out a few nibbles. Our Richard turned up straight from a 9 hour shift at work and at all the nibbles in about 10 mins flat, so I ended up making him a sandwich... Never would have had to happen if I'd been allowed to do a buffet would it!!!!
On Christmas Day we woke up not too early.
And got up to open our presents...
TheBoy's parents, sister and aunt came over at 11am (so I still have never been to Church on Christmas day...) We swapped presents (although they mostly gave us money this year) We had a delicious brunch of bacon, scrambled eggs, toast and sparkling wine and they left about 1.30pm. We got ourselves organised and went out for a lovely walk...
then back home to watch a film before starting on the dinner... Lentil fell asleep and slept really well for ages! All tired out!
We had to wake him up for dinner... which he really loved!
Boxing Day we went over to my Mum's for a quick lunch, called in to see Grandma and Grandad and then over to my other Grandma's for tea. It was nice to spend time with that side of the family as we don't see them anywhere near as often as we used to. But my Grandma's house is not baby friendly... and when you have 12 people in one room it's really not baby friendly! I ended up in the dining room most of the night chasing him around under the table! I won the treasure hunt though! Still not quite sure how I managed that, as I was busy with Lentil and didn't get a chance to have a sneaky look before we started and then had to look after him for about half the time everyone was looking anyways! One of the stickers was on the urn that Grandad's ashes are in... I had to blink away a tear when I discovered that one. My Grandma is so together about the whole thing, but it still gets to me. More so when she is so together...
It's been a quiet one, much slower paced than in previous years, but I have enjoyed that... everything was done on our terms and it never felt like we were rushing around to fit into other people's schedules... Next up is TheBoy's birthday on Friday, then we're having friends over for a tapas type meal on New Year's Eve and then seeing all the family again at Mum's on New Years Day. TheBoy is only working Wed and Thur this week and then is off until Jan 9th. Hopefully this means we can get all the paperwork sorted for the house and get ourselves in a position to make an offer. Yes, that does mean we have pretty much decided that we're going for it!!! Williamson Towers will be my project for 2012!