Indulgences
Thursday, December 24th, 2009Spending the day talking nonstop with
girliejones
Receiving presents from our girls’ various grandmothers all day (Raeli has had way too much sugar and scored a giant elephant puppet)
Chocolate chocolate chocolate
Gingerbread, shortbread, Ashgrove cheese and crackers, olives, cream cheese-stuffed peppers, apple cider, basically anything we saw in the supermarket and could justify because ‘it’s Tasmania, so Alisa needs to try it’
Entirely failing to make cupcakes, the one actual thing I had planned to do today.
aifin making sushi & pancakes for dinner, mmmm christmas food.
Chat, more chat, sewing time, chat. Heads have almost fallen off from total conversation.
aifin,
girliejones and I hanging out in the living room, tweeting each other about the plans for bringing Santaness into the house (stocking have been hung up with care & four year old is finally asleep) but not actually getting up off the couch to do so because hey, it’s not midnight yet.
The hashtag #jewtriesxmas has sadly not become a trending topic, though it has been entertaining on Twitter to watch her going through her disillusionment as regards who drinks the milk that was put out for Santa…
Merry Everything, one and all!
Last night we had a Christmas gathering for our usual Thursday night horde. We finished up Battlestar Galactica a couple of weeks ago, so it seemed oddly appropriate to watch the new Doctor Who (Waters of Mars) as our interim ‘episode of the week.’ A DVD set of the Tudors was gifted, so that will be our next show that we try to watch while small children are wandering in and out, shrieking randomly and dismantling each other’s bedrooms.
The baking process was convoluted not because of the recipe but because of the complex machinations required to allow three children between the ages of 4 and 6 to have an equal share of the adding ingredients, stirring, rolling and stamping out shapes. Phew! We all survived.