




Another Christmas over, thank goodness! I'm full of ideas on how to do things differently next year, although next year is easier, cause Chloe goes to her dad's for the day. We decided to have roast veggies with our mountains of meat, so we (or, rather, mum) had peeled 3kg of potatoes, 1kg of carrots, a pumpkin and sweet potatoes the day before - after all, we were feeding 17 for lunch this year!
After presents, of which I got a stash of platters, plates, books, cds... all stuff I love! I headed upstairs to start cooking - zapping everything in the microwave to get the cooking going... note to self, don't zap pumpkin or sweet potato, it goes soggy!! At 11.50am 8 people bailed!! I was not a happy camper!! Then the rest of our guests didn't arrive until almost 2pm!
Lunch consisted of prawns, chicken, turkey, ham, roast veg and asparagus... and was very yummy! After lunch we all sat around chatting, playing with kids, chatting, some were drinking, some were playing, just having a really good time. Our missing lunch guests turned up for dinner, so there was another round of present opening, more chatting, more drinking for some, and then we threw them out around 9pm, chucked the kids in bed, and crashed out ourselves shortly after!
Wednesday was clean up the mess day, Thursday we vegged, watching lots of movies, Friday DH put the bbq together, and today he's started tidying downstairs and building a bookshelf!! I hope that by the time he goes back to work that we have most of it sorted out! Oh, half of Thursday and half of Friday was spent purchasing a new car - a Mitsubishi Star Wagon people mover!! It's got a tow bar, so DH is happy, 8 seats so we have plenty of room when the boys are here in a couple of weeks, and plenty of hooks for baby seats for the next go around!!
That's just about all the news for now... I've been playing around in some new forums the last few days, and have discovered creating keepsakes magazine, which has some awesome articles in it, and I have finally discovered Ali Edwards' work! I want her new book - Life artist - how awesome is it?!
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