Lightening Online

Don’t you hate it when you write half a post then come back the next day and it’s no longer there????

Oh well, let’s try again….

Every year our Christmas Day tends to look a little different.  Some years we spend it with extended family and occasionally we spend it with just our immediate family.

This year we’re doing a bit of both.

We’re having lunch at home with just the immediate family and then heading down to the family shack (near the beach) in the afternoon where we’ll have tea with Farmboys parents and 1 of his sisters and her family.  We’ll then spend almost a week there (the other sister is due to arrive a couple of days after Christmas).  I’m sure it’ll be bedlam down there but lots of fun.

Christmas morning we love to attend church.  This means that the kids often have time to look in their stockings but not unwrap many presents.  Our church is about 40 minutes drive away and with a 9am service, it’s a reasonably early start.  It is wonderful to see our church family on Christmas morning though and focus on the true reason for the season.

We’ll then come home and open gifts (and eat lots of nibblies so we’re too full for lunch!  LOL).

I haven’t decided what we’re having for lunch yet.  I like a hot meal but the kids prefer salads to vegies.  I’m contemplating a mixture of both.  Why not?

We’re planning to eat out on our new back decking.  Farmboy has been busy putting up the roofing these past couple of days (updated photo’s soon) and we splurged on an outdoor setting (just a cheap one though).

At some point after lunch we’ll clean up, pack up and head down to the shack.

I’ve suggested we keep things really simple for the evening meal.  Generally people just feel like picking so we’re planning to have anti-pasto platters, cheese, dip biscuits and some fruit.  Simple stuff to prepare and we can just graze the night away. 

I’m not one to want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen on Christmas Day.  Even with having a mix of salad and vegies it won’t be a lot of work.  Just a few simple things.

I do like to make a few goodies in the lead up to Christmas but they are mostly used as gifts for those in the extended family we don’t actually “buy” for.

All in all, it should be a lovely relaxing day spent with family.  I’m really looking forward to it. (and now I had better go and do some wrapping - still plenty of that to do before the day arrives - luckily I LOVE it!!!!  ).