Happy Holidays to All
Sunday, December 23, 2007 at 05:26PM With this blog post, I sign out for a few days, to allow for the celebration of our family Christmas. Today we’ve caught up with some fun and pre-Christmas chores. Today in England at least (I’ve not caught up with Ireland or Scotland) the entire country appears to have been under a heavy fog - all day. The sun never burned it off, and it appeared very Dicksonein as we drove slowly through it. You half expected a horse and carriage to appear out of the murk beside you, and a highway robber to acost you of your last minute Christmas shopping.
We did the final supermarket shop yesterday, and today went out for lunch and caught The Bee Movie - which I absolutely loved. And we washed the dog (now we’re washing our clothes, the bathroom and the hallway afterwards).
Tomorrow my husband will depart early for work again - being a manager, and one of the few working, he is meant to be magnaminous and make the 1 1/2 hour commute to work just so that he can then turn around and “allow” all the staff to go home for Christmas at lunch time, lol. While we await his arrival back home, and the start of the Christmas break proper, my daughter and I will attempt to bake some Christmas muffins and cookies. I’ve downloaded several recipes from the net, and will attempt some of the wonderful recipes out there, and see if we can start up a new Christmas tradition this year.
We are scheduled to visit the inlaws for Christmas Day itself, but always look for an early departure home. Nothing beats an early Christmas night snuggled up in our beds, after a long but happy day of family, presents, turkey and avoiding Christmas pudding and brussel sprouts. Boxing Day we will again be traveling out, this time to another Christmas tradition of our family - as a family we go to the local football game. My husband and his father have supported the local team through 40+ years. Now my daughter goes, but only on Boxing Day currently.
Along with all of this I will be continuing to create Christmas journal pages - documenting the days themselves, and I’m sure many more memories will present themselves to my family as the next few days pass. I hope that the next few days also bring joy, sweet memories, and older memories to those having lost loved ones, and will wish you all a very merry Christmas, a happy holiday, and some relaxing family time off.
Speak to you all in a few days time.
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