the story of yesterday.
husband and i got up at 7am to welcome christmas and open presents - yay! husband did well in picking from the list i gave him and being creative himself - we're going to the beach cricket! so fun.
we had church at 8am, which was nice sitting as a family behind the turnbull family. i like the turnbulls. and i liked the childrens talk. the christmas story told with chocolates.
after merry christmasing people after church we went to my parents house. we hung around, opened presents which is always fun, hung around some more and played balderdash.
then it was off to my aunt's. it was a strange christmas lunch i must admit. took a lot of energy and was pretty hard work from a mental perspctive. but we got there in the end. strange family sometimes. stayed through the afternoon, and of course had more present giving and receiving.
a bit after 6pm, the three of us 'kids' raced off back to our house to watch the simpsons movie, so that it finished before the start of the the panel. debbie hadn't seen the simpsons movie before but had bought it for howie for christmas. soon after it begun tom joined us. good old tom came bearing two awesome gifts. we love DVDs.
and so continued our evening with the coming and going of the panel's christmas wrap. which could have been funnier.
and that pretty much was christmas. although it will be extended with the (hopefully) imminent arrival of debbie and cathy's presents.
i really like giving people presents - particularly if you know you've gotten them something really good. we're all pretty fortunate and this time of year emphasises that i reckon.
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