.........or at least I only mention it in a good way. Christmas was a bit last minute in many ways, but none the worse for that. The boys got the presents they wanted (or in the case of Second Born, a large wodge of cash over which he could gloat whilst planning what to buy in the sales) and were gratifyingly grateful. Mother-in-law and her husband were uplifted from their house without incident, despite the snow, and Sister-in-law and her partner arrived less than half an hour late, which is something approaching a record for them.
Gifts were exchanged and exclaimed over. (We know we have got it right with MIL's husband when he drops out of the conversation for half an hour after opening his books, so engrossed is he.) Husband got a Kindle of his very own, so he can now stop downloading things like "Memoirs of the Anglo-Boer War" onto mine when I am not looking, Not good for my street cred when I am demonstrating the wonders of Kindle to friends and colleagues and that's what pops up. We are now a two Kindle household. I don't think we can get much more geeky.
Christmas lunch worked, more or less, despite some lower-oven-malfunctioning setbacks. We have enough goose and turkey left over to feed an army, or possibly even a husband and two boys for a day or two.
On Christmas Eve we were finally able to Skype my brother's family in Australia and confirm with our own eyes that Mum and Dad really have reached the other side of planet Earth. It is beyond weird to be chatting to your family at 10pm on Christmas Eve when they have already had Christmas morning, presents have been opened and they are about to have brunch on the balcony. Lovely to see M&D looking well and happy, playing with their other grandchildren.
And now it is Boxing Day and we are slobbing about (there is no other word for it), recharging the batteries and playing with our new toys. Tomorrow, weather permitting, we will head off to sunny Troon to see Husband's Dad and do a version of Christmas all over again.
I hope you all had as happy and chaotic a day as we did here at Chateau Loth.
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How much snow do you have on the ground right now?
ReplyDeleteSo glad your parents made it Down Under safely and that you didn't spend Christmas Day making another trip to the airport.
We currently have zero Kindles, but I can see us eventually getting to the point that we have 3 or even 4. Our bookshelves are overflowing, even with regular weeding out, and whenever we travel, books take up far too much weight in our luggage.
A friend of mine was stuck in London for 4 days. She was manic. I told her she got off easy!
ReplyDeleteAh, I got a Kindle. So far I haven't sat down for long enough to discover how it works, but Mr Life and my niece have had fun with it.
ReplyDeleteCoffee? Will email you!