Wow ... Christmas

Another Christmas is over! That's it now for Christmas 2011, the presents are all handed out, santa's been and too much food has been eaten!!

What a day! What a lead up!! As I previously mentioned, Miss 8 is starting to not believe in Santa but Miss 2 is right in the midst of it! The presents, decorations, lights and love, this little angel loves Christmas more than she loves me!! Lol! But it certainly makes it all worth while when she came racing into our room at 6am screaming excitedly "IT'S CHRISTMAS!!!! It's Christmas day!!"

We took them all down stairs to have wrapping paper torn off presents, bows and tags and presents as far as the eye can see!! The girls with their glowing faces, standing at the window saying "Thank you Santa!!! Thank you sooooo much!!" as loud as they can!!

Then we make the trip to the in-laws house where breakfast is served and more presents are shared!! We were delightedly greeted by hubby's sister who had surprised everyone by flying in from Margaret River, enough to bring a tear to everyone's eye!

After lunch a much needed sleep is in order, after the house is cleaned from top to bottom first!! Sadly, poor old mum didn't get the sleep times right with my two little ones and misses out on a nap!! But that's ok, nothing a good stiff drink can't fix! Oh my, did I forget to mention the ridiculous amount of rain we received on our beautiful summers day?!? We thankfully missed the worst of it though, just put a dampener on the day 😉 and meant the kiddies who weren't sleeping had to return in doors and leave their sparkling new Powerwing Scooters behind!! We did however receive calls and messages from family with descriptions of wild weather and oversized hail that had damaged their cars and windows and shelters that hd been set up for dinner that night!!

Despite the partially flooded streets and lightening that cracked above, we all packed up our cars with presents and food (wine is a food group on Christmas day yeah?) and made our way to the uncles house to celebrate a little more with the extended family! And that means more presents, more kisses and a lot more people talking! Miss 6mths nearly went into melt down!! Even Miss 2 found it very overwhelming! Walking into a Maltese celebration at the beat of time is noisy, but for some reason this year was exceptionally noisy!! Everyone laughing and hugging and kiddies telling stories of what was left under the tree! Seemed almost as though there were 100 people in that room, well, it wouldn't have been far off it!! Lol!

Eventually, the day comes to an end. We attempt to fit more toys in the car, unsuccessfully we then move onto Nunna's car! Then make the trip home! We all creeped into bed and slept for what felt like 5 minutes before the kids are in our room again telling me the sun is up!! All I can say is ... Thank god for Nick Jr!!!!

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you had a wonderful time with those that mean the most to you and may you remain joyful and safe coming into the New Year!

Thank you for a wonderful year xxx