It was a really nice start to the day, we had decided we would open presents in the evening as we have an open house on Christmas Morning, so it is normally a bit of a rush. So we had some poached egg & ham on toast and got ready, once we were all dressed we had time for the 5 of us to have a bucks fizz before people started arriving.
Before we knew it we seemed to have a few more people than we normally have, but we had made some roasted nuts, smoked salmon on bruchette & mince pies so they seemed to go down well along with some mulled wine. It was about 2pm before people went so then it was time to start cooking our dinner. This year we have gone for duck for our Christmas dinner a little controversial but a good decision I think, we have also got a piece of pork as well.
So we sat down for dinner about 5pm, crackers and all. It was worth waiting for, we had a lovely seafood mousse followed by the works including my particular festive favourite, pigs in blankets, it is good to have the full works on this special occasion. The draw back being we didn’t have room for pudding, so that had to wait until later in the evening once we had opened presents.
We had opened one present at the table, I had a really nice red v-neck sweater, so then we retired from the table to open the rest of our gifts. We all did really well, Matt got an Ipad & I got dinner at Purnell's and Layla was given a lovely couple of days in Cornwall, which included a meal at Jamie Oliver’s, fifteen restaurant. We had all given Mum & Dad some new pans, which they had wanted for a while, along with a meal at an indian in Birmingham called the Rajdoot.
Layla had received some amazing baby clothes and all sorts from Australia off her Grandma and Mum, it was really nice and Mum & Dad had also given her and Matt a box full of items to get them started when the little one is born. It is very exciting as the due date is getting closer and closer, it is really nice to think at Christmas there will be a little one in the family again, I think it will bring a whole different light on it. After we had all finished it was quite late, so a quick cup of tea and everyone else had Christmas pudding before we all went to bed. It has been a brilliant day and we had another one ahead of us tomorrow round at the Waggott's, with Simon, Sam, Daisy & William as well, so we needed a good nights sleep before round two.
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