Monday, December 26, 2011

And a Wonderful Christmas Was Had By All.

We had a really nice day, the kids declared it the best Christmas ever (I called it Merry Excessmas but that's another story).
My brandy butter, first time in years I've made it.
We opened our Christmas pjs on Christmas Eve.  Doh!
Sham WOW!  Our present from the kids.  It's a long story....
"Santa's" response to the midly abusive notes left out for him by the children.
This is what my babies gave me, they know I love this schmaltzy stuff.
Harley Rose got chips in her stocking, she LOVES chips.
The Christmas Treasure Hunt was fun with a bit of a twist at the end.
Spoiled much?
Guess what I got?  I LOVE it.
We were going to eat outside but when we took our breakfast out there the flies were horrible so we had our Christmas Dinner at our little table, the first time in ten years we haven't had it at our big pine table and chairs.
We had turkey, prawns and lobster with a potato salad and an Avocado, Bacon and mango salad.  I had a dummy spit on Christmas Eve when Woolies didn't have any fresh prawns.  I mean really, how hard is it to get them in once a year?  I calmed down and bought frozen and made a cocktail sauce and we had that over some lettuce and it was okay.
Living in a country town sucks sometimes.
The kids are thrilled with their presents and the nice thing was how much they enjoyed the simpler things.  Their treasure hunt gave them totem tennis which they loved and a waffle maker.  Josh loves waffles so that was a nice surprise for him.  I found some batter recipes online and they made waffles for breakfast this morning, Boxing Day and even had some more this evening.
Today we just foraged, but we made some really nice fresh spring rolls with crabmeat, vermicelli, mint, coriander, cucumber and avocado and I made a great dipping sauce.
Emmy made most of them.
And this is how Christmas ended up for Phill.
I hope everyone had as much fun and joy at Christmas as we did.  Especially Phill.  zzzzzzzzzzzzz hic.




4 comments:

yellowdoggranny said...

looks and sounds like a wonderful christmas..and your food always looks so delicious.

Natalie said...

You are so good about taking pictures! And cooking! I use to like to cook but now not so much, I do it because those kids of mine expect me to feed them, the brats! I'm so glad you had a happy day, you deserve it more than any one I know.

My name WAS Female, I shit you not! said...

I see....Phill has a SENSE OF HUMOR! ;0)

The Fat Lady/Man sang/came and it's all over til next year.:0)

You worked your tush off to make it a day to remember ( as it will be ) and now applaud yourself mama and get a nap in here and there.
(((hugs)))Pat

CailinMarie said...

looks like a wonderful Christmas! Happy Christmas to you (I'm calling in all 12 days so I can say Happy Christmas till January 6th!)

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