I know we all say this every year, but Christmas came around so suddenly. I think I have been slightly overwhelmed by everything going on these last few months that time just crept up on me. I was truly grateful to have done the shopping when I had more time earlier on in the year as I don't know how I would have done it otherwise. Jason had booked Christmas week off so we kicked off the festivities by attending the carol concert in Wellington. Jason was able to take his Nan, and as I took a picture of them, I realised how incredibly similar they are. As J is adopted, we have never met his biological parents so it's interesting to see family resemblances. On Christmas Eve we went for our traditional cooked breakfast, came home, sang carols and then the lovely Daniels came to sing to us. As usual, we bathed the kids and whilst they were in the bath, Santa delivered some Christmas pjs. After the children got dressed, we left goodies for Santa and his reindeer then we read the nativity from Luke chapter 2 whilst the children acted it out. We then watched the Snowman, the church's nativity video and read the Night Before Christmas as we do every year, and put the children to bed. This year they didn't all get off to sleep till 10 as they were so excited!
On Christmas morning, the children were thrilled to see that Santa had been and had been very kind to them all. The children are allowed to open one present from the pile before breakfast which they did excitedly. We had our traditional breakfast of mini cereals, smoked salmon and pastries before opening the rest of the presents. Grandma and. Grandad came for lunch which was gammon this year and we enjoyed a meal together.
Mia and Ismay helped write the place settings and decorated the table beautifully.
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