How are we already in February!!! I was determined to get Christmas 2018 written up before January was out but somehow that didn't happen. Better late than never I suppose!
As someone who usually hugely dislikes Christmas, I actually enjoyed it this year. Probably because we kept things very low key. Having missed booking a Christmas online grocery slot, I didn't even have to do any Christmas food shopping in advance of Christmas. We just made do with the regular food we had and I'd bought a small turkey crown ages ago to pop in the freezer. My own nutloaf was already cooked and sliced and frozen too all ready for Christmas day.
In the run up to Christmas, Miss T had loved opening the gorgeous little fabric bags on her
Evie Michelle advent calendar with a pretty bow in each pocket.
These beautiful bows really were the highlight of our advent in the run up to Christmas! Thank you so much Evie Michelle!!!
D read us the story of "Santa Goes on Strike" - you can read
our review here and I can see this becoming an annual tradition to read this book each year.
One of the things I do enjoy about Christmas is making our own family traditions. For example, the kids know that no-one is allowed downstairs on Christmas morning until we've opened stockings upstairs first. So they all pile into our bedroom and open their stockings on Christmas morning. It gives me a few minutes longer in bed too so that's a bonus.
Most years we try to remember to take a family photo of us all. It is quite possibly the only day of the year that we manage to get a photo with us all in it!
We do a bit of present opening in the morning and then more after lunch to spread it out throughout the day.
Daddy cooked amazing yorkshire puds this year...
I like to attempt a homemade dessert when there are no guests to worry about. (Things always go wrong when I try to cook for guests!)
This year
Real Handful provided us with the ingredients and recipe for the perfect Christmas dessert. We love what these guys do, their snacking philosophy and you can sense the passion of the family behind these fab snacks. And kindness too - I remember them sending me some get well snacks whilst I was r
ecovering from my hip replacement surgery - How kind is that!
We actually decided to make two of these desserts - one to share and a mini version too. They are Chocolate dessert bombs made with pannetone, icecream, real handful blood orange burst and chocolate drizzled over them.
Miss T was overwhelmed with some of her Christmas presents - this made us all cry when we saw her cry with happiness.
And then it was all over for another year.
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