To all of my followers, I hope you’ve had a wonderful festive season, and a lovely weekend if you don’t celebrate Christmas.
I’d like to have wished you a relaxing Christmas but we all know that it is one of the least relaxing times, for many reasons (like catering for 12, something I avoided this year!) Trying to maintain any sense of order with a 2 year old and a 5 year old is like taming a pride of lions who’ve been fed entirely on blue smarties. We’ve had a good time though, and it’s been fantastic to have Mr Craft with us for a few days whilst he’s off work. (He’s paying for it at New Year!)
Some of our highlights have included my daughter announcing that we have ‘detonations’ all over the ceiling and my son telling anyone who would listen (there were a lot of people in the butchers on Christmas Eve!) that daddy bought him some special wine to go with Christmas dinner. He meant Schloer, which made for an interesting conversation and a few raised eyebrows! We also discovered that Mr Craft tends to get a bit too competitive when playing games aimed at children aged 5-8, which led to a few tears (not mine) until we fully enforced the rules.
We managed to cook the lunch whilst opening the gifts we’d all been given, and apart from the roasties being completely rubbish and not very roasted at all it was a success. The children had made table centrepieces when we visited a talented friend just before Christmas, so they took pride of place. Party hats, rubbish jokes and ‘wine’, a lot of persuading to just nibble the tiniest bit of Brussels sprout and an afternoon of films and playing with the new toys made it a blissful day overall, just as we had planned.
We still have lots of visiting to do and many more festivities to enjoy, I hope you have some great plans for the coming week. Whatever you’re doing, have a wonderful time.
It sounds like you all had a wonderful time 🙂
Lol…we used to get Schloer for our two as well!
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We did thanks, hope you did too. Schloer is pretty marvellous stuff 😁
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Yes thank you 🙂
Lol…yes Schloer is good for pretending!
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Sounds like you had a great time 🙂
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We did thank you, hope you did too. 😊
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I got a new gas cooker for Christmas, haven’t used one for over 16 years, so it was quiet a challenge cooking dinner, and an even bigger challenge eating it all !! Chris does like his sprouts, if he had a plateful with some gravy he’d be quite happy, Chris is weird, as you may have noticed!!
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Haha, Mr C loves sprouts too! Sounds like you did a good job. 😊
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Hope you had a wonderful Christmas aswell! That is a cute snowman!! 😄❤️
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Thank you 😊
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Sounds as if you had a fabulous time. It’s such a joy when the kids are young, but so exhausting. And who cares about the roasties – bet they were better than you think anyway.
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I think everyone was too busy fighting over the pigs in blankets! And yes, it’s definitely been exhausting. Hope you’ve had a lovely festive season. 😊
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Ha ha! Don’t expect the pigs in blankets situation to get any better as they get older 🙂 Or was you husband causing the trouble? 😉
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Haha, he was the instigator. 😁
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Glad you had such a lovely time. The term ‘detonations’ might just get adopted!
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It’s pretty special isn’t it, and should put off any unwanted visitors!
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Merry Christmas!
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