Sunday, December 25, 2005
Christmas 2005
If I could sum up today in one word it would be "family".Today was a day for family. Mostly ours.
The last few days and in fact the last week has been a frantic realignment of schedules as I got into the swing of a new contract for a client in the city - an hour commute each way.
So yesterday I finished off work for two other clients (got 3 hours sleep before heading out to the last meeting on Saturday).
Today the only work I had to do was the RPD for my brother Jono
So today we just did relaxing stuff with no deadlines.
- Got up (way too early thanks to 4 excited kids)
- Ate breakfast and did chores in super fast time
- read from Luke Chapter 1. Verse 37 is cool and the kids memorised that before we opened presents.
- Mercedes was really involved and she finished up with a fun play with the discarded paper!
- I received 5 books and a pair of handcuffs.
- The other kids then settled down to play with their new toys and puzzles and books while I did Jonos RPD.
- Then we had an early lunch and settled in for a nap / play computer games.
In the afternoon we headed up to Kristy-Lees place for afternoon tea and a swim. Was real nice spending some time with her folks. (She is Jamie's girlfriend. Jamie all but lives here.) - We headed home in a thunderstorm and got dinner on. Two of the kids stayed up there And Jamie brought them down when they came so Jude and I got some time together which was nice.
- Jamie's Dad - who had been driving a taxi all day - had a fare to drop off 10 minutes away right on dinner time so he came up also and we had a lovely meal of roast turkey and ham, spuds, sweet potatoes and onions, along with peas and corn, cheese sauce and cranberry sauce followed by Christmas pudding, reindeer poo and caramel fudge (all home made).
- Now a friend of mine and Jamies is coming up and we are going to play Battlefield 2 Special Forces for a couple of hours online. Jamie gave me the game for Christmas - thanks mate!
An awesome Christmas with my family.
I hope yours was good too.