Happy Holidays!

                          Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah!


The last 2 days have been so hectic that I've forgotten to blog. I was so busy on Saturday baking away. I think I spent 5 hours baking. I made Gingerbread men (I'm terrible at using cookie cutters. My gingerbread men we a bit disfigured), Sugar cookie snowflakes (With the help of my 4 year old they actually turned out pretty nice), Cake balls and Gingerbread cupcakes.

Christmas Day was exhausting but really amazing. We woke up at 7 and opened gifts. Dechlan was really thrilled that Santa really came for him. We were due at my in-laws for breakfast at 9 so we all got ready and gathered their gifts and headed to their place. After an amazing breakfast of scrambled eggs (My husbands family make the best scrambled eggs. Even my husband that doesn't know much about cooking makes pretty amazing eggs), sausage and back bacon. In my mind that is a perfect breakfast. We then opened gifts (again). My Christmas was made right there. I only asked for one thing this year and I got it. I got a Tassimo Brewing Station. Dechlan loved opening gifts and passing them around to everyone. He was such a little helper. Once he was done all his gifts he thought it would be okay to help everyone open theirs before they even got it.

We all did great with gifts. We all got what we wanted. Well, that isn't quite true, Dechlan asked Santa for a real, live bunny rabbit and he didn't bring him one. He was a little sad. But he seems to have forgotten it today.

Around 2pm, we headed over to family friends for Christmas dinner. It was lots of fun and we ate SO much. Turkey, ham, sausage stuffing, roasted veggies, YUM! There were so many goodies for after dinner too. mini cheesecakes, cookies, cake balls, cupcakes, Christmas pudding and macaroons. You know you're part of a British family when you have more goodies than actually real food.

Last night we all just sat around feeling very satisfied and exhausted. Dechlan passed out pretty hard just after 7pm. Nick and I watched one of the movies I got for Christmas and then read until I got a little silly for exhaustion and passed out. Today, we are all still quite tired. Early night tonight I think

I hope you all had an amazing Christmas or whatever holiday you celebrate.