Its really begun to sink in that Christmas day is just around the corner. In order to be ready and organised on the big day I did my last few bits and pieces today, flowers for the neighbours, wrapping and packing up gifts to be handed out around the neighbourhood. We are very lucky here in our cul de sac as we have a lovely group of neighbours and we all go to each other's houses on the 25th for a bit of festive mixing and mingling, but only for a short while. This year we will have my brother in law, sister in law and neice for christmas lunch (well rather later than lunch time,) so beforehand the mixing and mingling will go on for a while. Sadly we will be missing our eldest daughter Ellen who is in Oz for the forseeable future. Nevertheless thanks to the wonder of skype and social media we are able to keep in touch on a weekly basis, or even more frequently with mobile phones etc. So its not all bad. But she will be sorely missed when we sit down to dinner.
Tomorrow early in the morning I will prep all the veg, starters etc in order to free myself up on Christmas day to only have to simply turn on the oven to cook the turkey and ham. In fact the ham will probably be cooked already on Xmas eve as my OH likes to have some ham sarnies on xmas eve to start the ball rollling so to speak.
All I have to do tomorrow will be to get my hair done and go into town to meet OH and DD2 for some bits and pieces of Christmas shopping (a present or two for me perhaps!!)
Happy Christmas to all and here's to a prosperous and contented 2013.
Namaste
Marie.
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