Well hello there! How the heck are you? I hope you've managed to have some wonderful days with those most special in your lives? Are you still munching your way through the Christmas chocolate and cheese? I know I am...the cheese in our house never ends! I've had such a lovely few days, I can't even begin to tell you. Oh wait, isn't that the point of this post? Ok, let me fill you in on what has made my Christmas an especially wonderful one...
:: Driving through the countryside to my parent's house on Christmas eve whilst listening to Heston Blumenthal on Radio 2. An unexpected surprise, let me tell you!
:: Playing a lengthy game of Trivial Pursuit with my parents and O. There was a lot of cheating going on...naughty! My Mum won, by the way!
:: Christmas baking. This year I made Anna's cookies and Lily's brookies. They taste AMAZING, if I do say so myself!
:: Waking up on Christmas morning to open our presents. I got seriously spoiled this year and I am a very happy wifey! But of course, the best part was seeing O open all of his gifts. Some of them he knew he was getting, but the look on his face when he opening the waffle iron I got him was priceless!
:: Christmas Day food! This year we ate a breakfast of smoked salmon and cream cheese on bagels and for the main event we had antipasti and turkey with profiteroles to follow. YUM!!! There may have been some prosecco and red wine thrown in there too...oh and some M&S honey roasted cashews!
:: The Doctor Who Christmas special. This is one of my favourite Christmas TV shows. Every year we snuggle up on the sofa with some snacks to watch!
:: Christmas Day board games. We've been building up our board game stash and I think we seriously raised our game this year. O came home with Pandemic and Twilight Struggle. I know, our choices are getting slightly geekier, but have you played Pandemic?! So so addictive! We played about four games of this on Christmas Day. We're still trying to get our heads around the rules of Twilight Struggle, so if any of you guys have any tips, let me know!!
:: New Christmas traditions. This being the third Christmas we've spent together, we've been trying to inject some new Osc-Lou traditions into the holiday. One that we've done three years running now is a Boxing Day walk. Every year we pull on our big cosy boots and coats and go for a huge long walk. The first year we went to a beach in Kent, last year we went to Beachy Head in the South Downs and this year we went to the Galloway Forest Dark Sky Park. It seriously blows away the cobwebs and burns of a little of those Christmas calories. We want to go down one evening to watch the stars, with a big cosy blanket and a little hipflask of whisky!
So my little lovelies, tell me about your Christmas? What did you eat, drink, play? :)
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