Monday, December 25, 2006

Christmas Lunch take 2

Christmas Day started at 8am sharp and as usual we had to wait for Dad to come downstairs before we opened our pressies. I half expected him to come downstairs wearing his old brown towlling role that only ever came out for Christmas day! Instead he arrived wearing Cous Cous' slippers that he took a shine too and Cous Cous hadn't seen for a couple of days.

We didn't have many pressies becuase of the secret Santa but I had a great book of facts explaining for example why penguins feet don't freeze, why solids normally turn to liquid when heated by eggs do the opposite. I bored my family to tears with my facts all morning :) Aunty and Cous Cous defintly won the most unusual present from Cous Cous' aunt - a jar of gerkins. I kid you not, that's all there was.

We had a leisurely morning watching 'Love Actually' and then I drove home via a big detour. I had a couple of hours to spare so I drove to Cheddar, through the gorge and for the first time in my life, there was absolutely no one there! I stopped in the middle of the road and took pictures all the way up the gorge. I drove all over the Mendips with the help of very patient 'Tim Tom Tom'. It was great thinking time.

I arrived at Hayden's at 2pm where a very large dinner awaited me. It was so nice to see Livvy playing with her new toys. I'm not so sure I'm excited that he favourite toy is a kitchen and she is obsessed with feeding her dolls but she loves it. She even took her 'gogg' out of her mouth for enough time to give me a milky kiss.

Christmas evening was spent avoiding all food and watching Christmas tv at al's. I loved this Christmas, it entailed everyone special to me and I didn't have to use the entertainment I had taken to each venue!

Sunday, December 24, 2006

Not so secret Santa

The Shackell familydecided to do something a bit different this year for Christmas. We didn't have gifts for each person and we weren't going to have our family christmas meal on Christmas day. Instead we had dinner on Christmas eve and did a family secret santa. Or not so secret becuase my secret santa called me the day before to tell me that he forget to go on Amazon and get my pressie.

The problem with going to other peoples houses over the festive period is that I didn't buy any food for my house. So at lunch on christmas eve I called aunty saying that I was bored and had nothing to eat. We opened our secret santa gifts, I had a hot water bottle and earings that I'm allergic to :( Cous Cous' mum, dad, brother and partner arrived for dinner and we just stuffed ourselves silly with Turkey, beef and all the trimmings.

One day I will learn the true name of the 'Amanda's blue basket game' but for now that has to be its name. For those that have played it, let me put images in your head. You mother describing in as many words as possible, then 3 words and then acting 'multiple orgasm'. Shortly followed by Aunty acting 'Nobby's nuts' :)