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Eastern Europe Trip
A year of adventure and misfortune - the story of our Eastern Europe trip, the accident and subsequent recovery, and our lives up until September 2008... For the latest blog, click on Blogs in the header...Monday, 17 March 2008
Merry Christmas!
Better late than never!
This weekend we finally got round to celebrating Christmas. As is tradition in our household, the celebrations started on Christmas Eve (Saturday, 15th March!) with a "steak and chips" dinner. The butcher had done us proud, not just in storing our turkey in his freezer for the past 3 months, but also in supplying us with some great fillet steaks, which I rustled up with home-cooked chips, mushrooms, onions and peas, all washed down with a couple of great bottles of Mercurey 1er Cru wine from our cellar...
Christmas day dawned early for me, as even without Laura at home to wake me up in the wee hours, I woke up anyway! When Tracy came downstairs we put on some Christmas music and turned the volume up so Carlie would be woken up by the noise, and it immediately started to feel just like Christmas! We then set about preparing dinner and arranging the table. The centrepeice of the table arrived on Saturday, delivered by a bemused looking florist... Tracy's mum had ordered a Christmas decoration for us - what they thought about being asked for that in March is anyone's guess!
The table looked great all laid out ready for us, and with the Slade blasting out on the CD player we were really getting in the mood! After a champagne toast we sat down to a traditional Christmas feast, including turkey and all the trimmings, and even though I do say so myself, it was rather good...
Suitably stuffed we moved on to playing with the whistles that were in the crackers... these were all numbered and so with Tracy conducting us, we attempted to play "Jingle Bells"... good job we'd put Jake (the dog) outside or he'd have gone mad! As it was, the sound was not quite orchestral quality, but the expressions on Katie & Carlie's faces as they tried to stay in tune more than made up for it!
When we couldn't stand the noise any longer, we retreated to the front room to open our presents. And what a lot of presents we got! I won't go into the details here, suffice to say we probably need a bigger house to put it all in!
So now we've got Christmas over and done with, we're looking forward to Easter, and this weekend we're heading south to see Tracy's family - and we're really excited about seeing them all outside of the hospital environment!
This weekend we finally got round to celebrating Christmas. As is tradition in our household, the celebrations started on Christmas Eve (Saturday, 15th March!) with a "steak and chips" dinner. The butcher had done us proud, not just in storing our turkey in his freezer for the past 3 months, but also in supplying us with some great fillet steaks, which I rustled up with home-cooked chips, mushrooms, onions and peas, all washed down with a couple of great bottles of Mercurey 1er Cru wine from our cellar...
Christmas day dawned early for me, as even without Laura at home to wake me up in the wee hours, I woke up anyway! When Tracy came downstairs we put on some Christmas music and turned the volume up so Carlie would be woken up by the noise, and it immediately started to feel just like Christmas! We then set about preparing dinner and arranging the table. The centrepeice of the table arrived on Saturday, delivered by a bemused looking florist... Tracy's mum had ordered a Christmas decoration for us - what they thought about being asked for that in March is anyone's guess!
The table looked great all laid out ready for us, and with the Slade blasting out on the CD player we were really getting in the mood! After a champagne toast we sat down to a traditional Christmas feast, including turkey and all the trimmings, and even though I do say so myself, it was rather good...
Suitably stuffed we moved on to playing with the whistles that were in the crackers... these were all numbered and so with Tracy conducting us, we attempted to play "Jingle Bells"... good job we'd put Jake (the dog) outside or he'd have gone mad! As it was, the sound was not quite orchestral quality, but the expressions on Katie & Carlie's faces as they tried to stay in tune more than made up for it!
When we couldn't stand the noise any longer, we retreated to the front room to open our presents. And what a lot of presents we got! I won't go into the details here, suffice to say we probably need a bigger house to put it all in!
So now we've got Christmas over and done with, we're looking forward to Easter, and this weekend we're heading south to see Tracy's family - and we're really excited about seeing them all outside of the hospital environment!
posted by DoctorZippy # 21:11 
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