All that shopping and preparation, and in two short days Christmas is gone for another year. Over all though it was pretty good. We spent time together as a family, with my parents staying over and my brother coming for the day yesterday with his. For me, apart from wanting to keep in mind the real meaning of Christmas (and I don’t mean the presents) the main thing I love is being with my family. This includes a boy of nearly 16 still being excited on Christmas morning, and wanting to play silly games with his grandparents, of the smell of turkey cooking when you are still eating breakfast and of the karaoke event with the whole family singing along (I really do pity the neighbours, our singing never seems to improve!)

Ok so I have spent too much money, I have seriously over catered on food (not so much the turkey as everything else) but I enjoy eating trifle at breakfast time (as I have just now). So onto the new year,  and time to spend with more family as we are going to stay with my other brother. I will be posting some of my thoughts on the year and hopes for the new year in the next day or two. Mean time, a very belated Merry Christmas!