Christmas Day 2024

And now I am finally blogging about Christmas! Blogging is taking me so long at the moment that it is already past my birthday on January the 19th as I write this! It's almost a month since Christmas! But never mind, it is what it is. My blog is always there for me. 

So Christmas Day dawned and Lee, Peter and I were at our house. But Peter had had a visit from Father Christmas at our house in the shape of two stockings! Haha, he had never not had one so my aunt and uncle asked if we could make sure he still had one even though he was away. He had had a pretty rubbish year so my mum, aunt and I put together TWO stockings for him for him to open first thing. He wasn't expecting it at all so that was very sweet. He came and sat on the bed with Lee and I and opened his things, which of course included a chocolate orange or two which I know he loves. 

We got dressed and headed off to my mum's house. Caroline and Neil had gone to church but they weren't very long so we quickly broke out the Bucks Fizz. We had a lovely day all together. We had starter at lunchtime and our main course at about 5pm I think. Most everyone pitched in to help; we drank well and ate well and played games and played with all our gifts and such. I got a lot of lovely things - Lee bought me tickets to see The Pogues in May, my mum made me a dress which you'll see in a few weeks on my birthday post, and I got some lovely Secret Santa gifts. We had dessert at like 8pm or something; Peter and I again had lemon cheesecake because we are just devils like that. 

It was nice to spend Christmas with my aunt, uncle, and one of my cousins. It doesn't happen often! I was wearing my spangly dress that I bought for my cruise last year. My mum cut it shorter for me for my holiday, so I wore it with tights on Christmas Day although I was plenty warm enough. I was sprinkling sequins everywhere - oh well, it was Christmas joy!

In previous years I've had a replacement for the meat on my vegetarian Christmas dinner, but I've never enjoyed it that much so I decided this year I would just have stuffing (which I really like anyway) and all the trimmings. It worked out really well and I liked it. 

The stockings waiting for Peter at around 9am on Christmas morning

And here he is opening stuff. I like stockings and I'm glad he still got one even though he wasn't at home or with his parents

The table all set nicely before our starter - didn't it look lovely? it was a bit of a squash but it was fine

Here's my main course - stuffing, carrots, broccoli, sprouts, roast potatoes, veggie sausage and bacon, gravy, and bread sauce. My mum and I love bread sauce and look forward to it all year!

One of the book swaps I did came packaged really nicely in this lovely box. The gifts were lovely

Here I am in my sparkly cocktail dress later in the evening

And finally here are my hyacinths at home which had finally come out!