And so the extended family travelled the country and by and by arrived at the Anonimum cottage where only a slightly fraut group were gathered madly wrapping, baking and generally making ready for the day ahead.
T'was the night before Christmas and not a creature was stirring...some chance. Laurie and Mol (Laurie in particular but Mol joining in as it looked fun), were still dashing about the house over excited spreading the garden in 'reindeer food', preparing the gifts for the main man's chimney arrival and generally reeking totddlergeddon about the house. I shall have to take advice form the more experienced parents for calming tots next year as my secret bell jangling attempts wern't madly successful!
Chirstmas was a blast with happy kids and happy parents. I had to spend a good half hour madly wrapping anything I could find as once Mol had opened a gift she was onto the next and was working her way thru family presents at an impressive rate. She seemed happy to open half a slipper and some playmobile men from the toy box tho...mayhaps we shouldn't have bothered with gifts for her at all? Laurie seemed chuffed with his oxfam remote control car and both loved the hand made kitchen (that had seemed such a good idea but was beggining to become a drain on time resorces as well as a worry they'd not rate it up to much. I wonder how many more years we can survive on charity shops and home made tat before they want an ipad or similar. Hopefully another year or so...at least??
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