Christmas eve, finally here!
Last day of the calendars too, a nativity scene and a star so at least they've delivered in the end.
Mum was at home with us again as Dad had to go to work for half a day at least.
We had a nice bath.
We played Jolly Octopus (I won).
And then Dad came home, he'd won a prize at the work raffle again and had picked a big tub of celebrations rather than any booze or anything. He made the right choice!
We had to test a few, straight away.
Sue came round in the afternoon, we hadn't seen her for ages so it was really nice to see her, she really makes us all laugh.
We had our traditional christmas eve drinks with the gang in the afternoon at the Craven Arms.
We did, but with all the wild weather thats been about lately the pub had no electric. This meant candle light only, how very cosy and christmassy.
Didn't make any difference out in the playground though, was nice and bright out there. We had a great time with Kimi, Marny, Aby and Faye.
We stayed all afternoon and had a good old laugh with Alan and Hayley too.
Once the power came back on at the pub (to a loud cheer) we decided to head off into town.
We had a booking at Pizza Express, but as we were a little bit early we ventured into Marks and Spencer....it was pretty much deserted.
Yeah it was, and all the Christmas stuff was reduced....bargain Christmas Colin the Caterpillars, what a result.
We carried on accross town to get our pizzas.
The moustache sticker sheets were great fun.
We munched our way through dough balls, salad, pizzas and our puddings with ease.
It was lovely, we really enjoyed ourselves.
We saw my old friend from nursery Ted on the way out and had a nice catch up chat.
We made our way home to carry out our final preparations for the big day.
So, the reindeer food had to be scattered outside.
The Santa sign had to be installed:
Santa and Rudolph's supplies had to be laid out:
For the record we went with two mince pies, a glass of milk and of course a carrot.
Then it was a quick check on the NORAD santa tracker website (which doesn't seem to be as good as it was after they changed it's format).
Then it was time to get ready for bed and get snuggled up on Mum and Dads bed for the pop up nativity story and It's Santa before turning in for the night.
Despite weeks of worry, I went to sleep okay in the end.
I had no trouble of course, I take it all in my stride.
Wednesday-Christmas Day
Wahey, it's finally here....christmas had arrived. Apparently 5am is a little too early though, so back to bed I was sent, via downstairs of course, just to check what was under the tree.
I tried again at 7:15, this time joined by slug-a-bed Ellis, there was to be no going back to bed this time.
Indeed there wasn't, we installed ourselves on mum and dads bed with our bulging stockings and set about seeing what was inside!
They were brilliant, packed full of good stuff in small packages.
The perfect starter before the downstairs main course still to come.
The pile of presents was very impressive this year.
I set about reading the tags and dishing them out. It's a big responsibility, especially as Mum and Dad don't get as many as us kids, it's hard to spread there's out.
I don't get bogged down with such considerations, i'd open all of mine (and anyone elses) in a flash if left to my own devices.
I was so thrilled with my personalised, fully custom Adidas bag:
I can't wait to take it to school.
I have at long last got myself a lovely dressing gown, that actually fits me:
And far more exciting than that, my flipping puppy:
Hex Bugs V2, they can climb as well!
Super snuggly Pillow Pet:
And my top present, proper four wheeled roller skates just like I wanted:
I can't wait until it's dried up enough outside to really have a go on them but in the meantime i'll have to make do with scooting across the kitchen instead.
These were of course only a fraction of what we got, there was so much lovely stuff.
Indeed there was.
I took my responsibility as present distributor in chief very seriously and had to dig really deep behind the tree to get the last of them out:
We'd worked up a bit of appetite so it was a good job Dad just so happened to have sorted us out with a proper cooked breakfast.
We had a while to sit and digest what we'd got and have a play with our new stuff.
Before it was time to go around to Auntie Christines.
Brilliant, more people to see, the best part of christmas for me.
Owen and Kirsty were there, Laura and Darcey were there, uncle Ian's Dad was there and so was Auntie Trish.
Brilliant. I got to parade around with my cool bag.
We had more excellent presents to unwrap.
And then it was Christmas dinner time. Sprouts! I love them but i'm not allowed them at home...ever!
And I sat next to Auntie Trish, the fruition of an arrangement we'd made way back in October or something.
Dinner was of course delicious.
But the crackers were pretty shoddy it has to be said.....
Once it was all done it was time for games to be played.
Laura's balloon popping game was just brilliant, even if the more nervous among us didn't want to play.
Then there was my Logo Billionaire game:
Which bought us up to five o'clock.....meaning five o'clock present time!
A Flack festive tradition that has expanded to include us fortunately.
We were on an early curfew this year, so we took Trish and headed for home.
We got to go through all of our other stuff with her and then sat down for a liitle bit of tea.
It had been a long old day thats for sure, we didn't really object to going to bed....
Thursday- Boxing Day
Auntie Trish had stayed over, brilliant!
When we got up she was already on the sofa.
We had breakfast, we played more games, we had more fun!
We swapped her for Anne, Alan and Hayley at lunchrime.
We all sat down for a big curry for lunch (not Turkey leftovers).
And then I resumed my Santa duties by dishing out yet more presents from under the tree, which had seemingly replenished themselves.
One of them was a game for Mum called Dobble, it was seriously good fun for all of us.
We watched Gangsta Granny in the evening, from the David Walliams book.
It was the only thing we'd actually bothered to sit down and watch together and we really enjoyed it.
We rounded the day out helping mum do some of her puzzle ball.
Friday
Well it was almost like Christmas was over, Mum had to go back to work sadly.
It was wet and windy, so when Dad suggested we give her a lift rather than make her walk we agreed instantly and got dressed in a flash.
We had a lazy morning and watched the 4 o'clock club Christams special.
We made our way into town to meet Mum for lunch.
Which I managed to hijack into a Skylanders figure reconnaissance mission.
We ended up in Costas for a cheese and ham toastie.....still loving those!
We saw Edward and Eva in there too, a good chance for us to exchange present stories.
Town was pretty busy it has to be said, we got away as soon as we could.
The relative calm of the park on fifth road was pretty good n comparison.
Yeah, we took my new rugby ball and had a good time doing some passing.
We also did some timed laps on the bikes.
My wheel writer was brilliant, well, i'm told it was anyway as I can't see it while i'm riding. I got it up into the high 20's before Dad couldn't read it anymore.
We had another Dobble session in the evening, we're still loving it!
Saturday
Newbury Races today.
Indeed, and despite repeated warnings from mum and dad it was surprisingly warm and sunny.
It was Katies 40th birthday so there was a good turnout, of grown ups anyway.....all the kids seemed to have been left at home except us.
From a gambling point of view it was rubbish for me, no winners.
I did a lot better, had a couple of winners, but managed to lose a tenner somewhere. Oh dear.
Sunday
Yet another lazy morning, we're getting really good at these.
In the afternoon we were forced out of the house.
We went for avwalk around Snelsmore with Kimi and Marny.
It was pretty icy in places:
There was also masses of mud and some pretty serious puddles to splash about in.
My Inkoo had been through the wash after it's initial christmas days adornments and was dry when I got home. Time for another design I think:
Monday
Yet another wet and windy morning.
We made the best of it by watching Epic with Dad (mum was back at work).
It did clear up a bit in the afternoon though. Enough for us to venture out to the discovery centre with a bag full of bread for the ducks.
I felt a bit crowded by them really, there were hundreds, I don't know where they all came from in such a short space of time.
We enjoyed the playground, even if it was a bit on the slippery side and we fell over a few times each.
We called in at pets at home on the way back, the rabbits, guinea pigs anpd gerbils were so cute.
I loved the Degu's, they were going mad in their exercise wheel.
We then tried to find an open car wash, this proved an impossibility so the car has remained filthy....
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