Hectic Christmas!!

Phew! Christmas & Boxing Day are over - now time for playing with presents ahh!

This year, is the first year my boyfriend and I are spending Christmas together, so we had the difficult task of travelling to both families & having two Christmases in one day - Tiring is the only word to describe this experience!

I did a 9 am - 6pm shift on Christmas Eve & then my boyfriend picked me up with the car all packed ready for our little adventure! We had a lovely evening with my Mama but I was very tired and ended up going to bed at 10pm! This week at work has been hellish, so many crazy shoppers & I caught that virus thats been going around - not fun times! Christmas morning was amazing, we took turns opening presents between the three of us whilst all the dogs enjoyed their christmas bones! This was the first Christmas I have earned enough to buy lots of quality presents opposed to just one good one for my mum, which she was quite surprised about. Half way through the morning my mum got sad because my brother chose to spend Christmas day with his dad & little brothers, which is fair enough, we've had him for 20 Christmases, it's their turn :)! So we cheered her up with pancakes for breakfast! Then we all got ready to go to Christmas lunch with my grandparents. I got them a camera for Christmas which was quite hilarious actually, when trying to take her first picture my nan took one of the ceiling her hands were moving so much. She said 'oh that's lovely anyway!' bless her! Unfortunately, my grandparents had to have their dog put to sleep the week before Christmas, he was 12 and had started to get very aggressive towards them and everyone he met. They were very depressed about it, and sadly my brother did not receive the memo, and he bought them a dog door stop that was grey like Max, their pooch. As you can tell our Christmases are quite bitter sweet & full of awkward moments!

Christmas lunch was amazinggggg! I had Stilton & Broccoli soup, followed by Roast Beef with all the trimmings and finally White Chocolate & Rum Creme Brule - Delicious. My nan kept finishing off everyones - closet alcoholic much. We had two hours of lunch and me & Russell had to set off very quickly to make our long journey down to Windsor to see his family. We got there after an hour & a half, and had our second round of present swapping! And our second Christmas Dinner... where I had tomato and Basil soup followed by Beef & Turkey with all the trimmings. An amazing addition was little pigs in blankets with cheese. OH MY LORD. Little bites of heaven! After that I had a major food baby, was bordering on a food coma and needed a nap - but I was told I was not allowed one, sadness! The evening continued with lots of board games, drinks and laughter. Unfortunately Russ was up all night with food poisoning, I felt terrible because apparently I slept through the whole thing & his mum had to look after him - whoopsy!


Hope all your Christmas days were magical & you enjoyed your day!!