Santa sacks magically appeared after a two year absence, filled with $2 shop toys, kids got a kick out of that.
Santa left a little ginger bread house on each child's beside table. Emmy really is a pretty girl she just makes silly faces.
As does her brother. Lucky was full of festive fun.
Dad was surprised to receive a kettle for Christmas. Or was it? (ha ha revenge for the Mothers Day toaster incident of 1997).
Two very lucky kids now have their very own computers. (Still making funny faces though).
Dad didn't really get a kettle, he got an Ipod Nano and a docking clock radio thingy as WELL as his blu ray dvd player and seven dvds.
After a hearty Christmas breakfast of bacon, eggs and hash browns it was time for the Treasure Hunt.
The treasure was two giant Nerf guns that fire like a machine gun!
Max had his Christmas T shirt on - it says "Santa Me"
Time to get the turkey ready and make the stuffing balls.
They looked very festive. Baked in the oven for half an hour they came out brown and crisp and tasted great, we'll definitely do this again next year.
We had roast turkey, stuffed with my own homemade bread stuffing with sage, thyme, parsley and oregano from the garden, bacon, onion and white wine. The stuffing balls, a potato salad, prawns, oysters and lobster with two sauces. The lemongrass coconut one wasn't good but the cocktail sauce I made was.
And a green salad as well.
I basted the turkey with melted butter and maple syrup and in spite of the dodgy oven it came out perfect.
It was probably the nicest, most relaxed Christmas Day I've had in years, we just really enjoyed being together. The kids loved their presents, and Phill loved his too (amazingly!). I got a whiz bang chair massage cushion which I love, the complete box set series of Little Britain, a Little Britain USA dvd, and a Modern Family series one dvd. And the new best of Pink on cd.
The highlight of my day was the phone call I got late in the evening from my firstborn, Ali who is on holidays on the south coast with her husband and little Harvey who is 14 months old now. We haven't been speaking but all is patched up now and I'm hoping to get across to see them on the coast before they leave, or up to Sydney after they get home. I miss both my grandsons so much. I haven't seen Jake for two years and Harvey since he started walking.
I talked to Mum, my sisters and my niece Janelle who was having her first Christmas without her kids, one has left home and her youngest is in Sydney with her father.
I hope all who read this are having, or have had, a Merry Christmas because we sure did.
3 comments:
May the joy in your heart today remain there all year long m/f.
That meal deserved to be in a magazine layout.
You know... like Women's Day, Family Circle.
pssssssssssst! Don't show that picture of the turkey to the landlady. ;0)
We're all laughing at your turkey comment!!
And thank you Pat.:)
The photos said it all...its so good to see the effort put in was worth it and you will remember these times as the best of times...and the kids will - I still remember the Christmases mum and dad organised for us on our little back verandah - they all flow into one christmas - Dad was killed when i was 15 and it was fearfully hard for mum after that - even so christmases were still good - just being together was
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