Christmas Day 2010

We had a lovely day - filled with good food, pressies and a bit of family and friends too.

The kids loved the mayhem of the morning. They were totally overspoiled.

Our guts were terribly overspoiled too.

Our menu for the day included...

Sour Cream Coffee Cake and fresh pineapple, cherries and watermellon
with good strong Organic coffee for breakfast.. Oh, and a bit of leftover Loganberry crumble too.

Champagne with cherries, Baked ham (with Jen's amazing recipe), green bean and kumara salad with smoked  bacon, deviled eggs, Goat's fetta and avocado green salad, and Chocolate Guinness cake with cranberries and white chocolate.

We were too stuffed to do anything else for dinner.
We had plain ham sambos after washing the sand off from Walkerville.  

...by the way - this is how Nic spent the early morning after milking the cows.

Cows and Chooks don't care if it's Christmas!

That water was FRIGID! 

It is beyond me how any of them got past their toes, but almost all of them came home with sand and seawater in their hair - including Nic! 

Hope that you had a joyful day as well.

xx

What a wonderful day

"Thank you, Mooey"

Can you get over that "stance" on big boy?

My traditional ham rolls on my new vintage plate from my girl.

... and an afternoon spent with dear friends.

We have had a lovely day. We are off tomorrow for a wee while..
Merry Christmas - be back in the New Year. xx

Christmas cheer..

I just had to share a bit of our Christmas cheer around the place.
I found this woodland creature wrap at David Jones while shopping with my mother in law. How could I possibly resist those bitty owls with party hats? Or squirrels with scarves?

The "free radicals" (thanks, Leonie!) have had a marvelous time wrapping pressies and stowing them away under the tree. I think they are getting the concept of giving - which is lovely.

I'm feeling a bit more on top of things now after a LARGE tidy up around the house with hubby. We have dinner guests tonight and tomorrow and didn't want to share our filth with them. Dinner in a brothel is probably frowned upon.

Chrissy preparations...

My current project for my Monty Boy. Stay tuned..

Baxter and Gretta got stuck into making Chrissy paper chains. Baxter really loved the project - and did a long chain on his own. Gretta was a bit more sporatic and did a lot of dancing inbetween sticky taping sessions. 

I've been in a bit of a rut at the moment. I'm keen to do projects, but I'm unable to. There's always something shoving a curly one in. I am feeling anxious and uneasy. My back is out and my rowing machine is a bit lifeless for the last 3 days - which does my head in as well. Monty has been a bit fussy and needy, and I think my uneasyness has rubbed off on the other two.
Maybe I need to just give up on it all and go with the flow?
Any suggestions?