The month of December has been filled with illness after illness i had a stomach bug then a cold then a stomach bug and we had one child a week ill with the sickness thats been doing the rounds. But luckily we were all ok over Christmas.
We made mince pies and drank hot choccie
We loved our tree which was a bargain at £11.99!!
Next to our Santa you can see the Reindeer that Paul made us of a fallen branch we found round the corner, which is wonderful and he did a fantastic job,next year he has said he is going to make more so we can have a display in the garden,.
I found this tree hat for 59p in a charity shop and despite the look, he would not take it off!
He is definitely a Christmas Cutie and this year he knew all about it and had no problems with opening his presents and with all the Christmas party's and festivity's at nursery has really started enjoying it, he runs up to the door and presses the bell himself,which is great to see as Fred cried and fought every day he was there, which was such a shame as its a wonderful nursery, that all of the kids have gone to , although Alex is going to a different building as they have opened one near me,but some of the same staff are there so they know our family from all the years we have been going.
Santa and his sleigh passed the house!!
This is organised by the local Rotary club and goings round all the local streets,unfortunately i was ill and the kids were at my mums and they missed it by 10 minutes, but i went out and put some money in the box.
This year instead of our annual Gingerbread house competition, we did a ginger bread tree which turned out perfectly!I made the dough and Paul did this with them while i was preparing the food on Christmas Eve
We used it as a table decoration
They were so exited but after a late night on Christmas eve we managed to stay in bed till 7.10 am!!!!the lastest time yet i think!
The lounge was chaos but they all got what they wanted, apart from Fred who had asked for a kitchen, my parents bought him a gorgeous wooden kitchen and after inspecting it asked where the tablet was!! turns out he had wanted on from the telly which you could put your tablet on the front for cooking noises!! Think really it was just the tablet he wanted, but we fixed it by putting Pauls phone on the front with a cooking app and that made him happy. They have all played with it lot, its so cute .
I made the same dinner as last year Lamb stuffed with a cranberry stuffing and slow roasted in port and cranberrys
Everyone enjoyed it apart from Ewan who whined on and on about not liking the gravy and it being different, but it was made out of the port, stock and juices, it was delicious!
They got matching minion onesies, i think they looked really cute
Overall this Christmas was really relaxing, i had made lots in advance and made a scheduale over the month for various jobs and stuck to it,which meant that most things were done ready for the day ahead of time. so after all was done i could sit and relax with a bacardi and some Gingerbread cake!
Hope you all had a great Christmas too
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