A nice slow Christmas for us

Well, I wasn't really getting better last time I wrote apparently. I was back in bed the next day, and much of the time throughout Christmas and New Year. So our Christmas has been a very slow one with lots of staying indoors, or even in bed, and not much happening. It's not quite what we'd planned, but it's what we needed.

I woke up on Christmas morning though feeling good, having had a beautiful night's sleep, the best in at least a few months. I was able to get up and be a part of opening stockings, acting out the nativity, and sharing gifts. So we have a few photos too. My body had had enough by mid afternoon so I slept for a while back in bed while Michael did a great job of making our Christmas dinner, and the children played with their presents. I got up to eat with a lot of help, and was glad I could be around again having felt so rough. We also enjoyed having a way too late webcam conversation with Michael's sister and friend in America before everyone went off to bed for the night.

Peter was so funny all day with the presents. He had insisted for weeks before that he didn't want any presents. Just nuts. :o) When he saw the stockings though nothing could make him wait to open his, and then his eye was on opening the presents - whether from him or not. We had to tape a few back up again for the real recipient to open them. Then for days afterwards he kept complaining that he couldn't find any more presents to open! He did find one for Michael's birthday, which now needs re-wrapping, and was so pleased about it he came up to tell me (in bed) that he'd opened another present (all smiles). :o) Luckily for him I'd been too ill to wrap all of their presents so they had them from two other relatives a few days later. Short lived excitement for Peter, but then he was rather absorbed in his new farm sticker book after that, and has chosen it as a bed time story several times since.




Hannah was thrilled with anything to do with horses, which she actually received quite a bit of this Christmas.


Silly Mum wearing Rebekah's Mrs. Christmas hat in a very strange way, and my lovely wooden heart necklace that I was delighted to find in my own stocking.


Rebekah was SO excited to share with her siblings the presents she had chosen for them this Christmas. Giving was most definately part of the fun for all of the girls this year as they each chose to buy their own gifts for the first time.


Michael showing Peter how to unscrew his new car from its packaging. Peter loves tools at least as much as cars, so loved having a go himself.


Do you see Rachel's face? That is her undeniably excited reaction to finally having some "little lego" after years and years of wanting some. She's only been waiting since she was four or five, and was most definately over the moon! :o)






Everyone was delighted with canteloupe melon and yummy cherries for desert. Can you tell?







Peter enjoying some Daddy time with his new sticker book.


Peter doing one of his favourite things (jigsaw puzzles) in one of his favourite places (ON the dining table).