One Hot Mamma!

Well I guess most of you will have finished Christmas by now. Was it worth all the hard work? Yep, it certainly was for me anyway. It was such a perfect day for us. The weather was outstanding, the children had a ball, the gifts were good fun to open and it was quite relaxing really.

The girls were all excitedly searching through their stockings when we crawled out of bed. There were some yummy treats that were eagerly gobbled up - stuff breakfast on Christmas Day! Santa delivered mostly what they asked for, but there were no complaints about the variations.

I must say that preparing for a meal in this heat wasn't that pleasant. Nearly 30 degrees by mid afternoon with a hot breeze was not good for the kitchen workers. It was sweltering hot with unbelievable mugginess to go with it. Still it was mostly cold food apart from the chickens and potatoes.

Just look at the beautiful blue sky with the green leaves...

What else is there to do on such a hot Christmas Day? Gosh this is the life for children isn't it?

There was only one thing for it. Bring out the pools! We all enjoyed a few feet dips in between cooking and Christmas preparations.

This is my setting at table A. The gingham cloth didn't stretch for both tables! Well actually I didn't get to sit much with getting up and down for little girls needing drinks, food etc anyway.

And who's idea was it to get Singstar ABBA?!!! Golly I didn't know singing could be so painful to listen to! And to be woken up at 6.45 by such noise is not too pleasant. As Daddy says, we have no budding Taylor Swifts here! Still they are having so much fun with it and even the four year old knows every word of Mamma Mia. Well some words she thinks she has right!

I hope you all had such a great day too. Can't wait to hear about it.

I suppose you want to know what Santa brought me? Well, I got a Wasgij Christmas puzzle, three blocks of dark chocolate!!!, a triple pack of craft magazines, and wait for it...

a new twin pack of telephones! I have been so restricted of late with a stupid phone that would allow me to speak for about ten mins a day before it would just cut out. Imagine how awful that would be for three months? Hubby found it quite amusing as you can imagine. Well my life will be forever changed now I have my phone back.

Well the pool is currently being filled for another fun day in the sun. Might be a good beginning to the holiday to start my puzzle. Right off for a bit of R and R and perhaps a little chocolate treat.

We are doing it all again tonight with the leftovers - better than Christmas itself as there is no work to do.

Enjoy!