On Christmas Eve Dad, the kids and I went to the Christmas service at Dad's church. The service started at 11pm but Dad had to be there early as he is in the choir and had to rehearse. The kids and I spent about an hour sitting reading and listening to our ipods in the church hall playroom while he was doing this.
The church was beautifully decorated with many poinsettia plants and the service was very nice. Jade stayed awake all though it which I was surprised about.
We got home about 1am and the kids went straight to bed under instruction that present opening wasn't going to take place before 8am.
On Christmas morning I was surprised I woke up about 7:30. Jarrah was awake and Jade woke up hearing us talking. We began opening presents about 8 and it took 2 hours to get through them all. Wow! Dad got quite a few and considering we'd already opened presents in Australia a couple of weeks before this the kids did pretty well getting as many presents as they did. these were mainly presents from their aunts and unclebut there were also some from 'Santa' which were things I'd bought online and had shipped to Dad's address.
Dad/Grandpa got quite a few presents including a book of recipes from Jarrah that he'd tested and typed up and a book Jade made called her book of favourites.
After opening presents Dad, Jarrah and I got the Christmas dinner of ham underway. We sat down to eat it about 3pm and it was delicious--Virginia baked ham, candied sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, salad and stove-top stuffing (Jade's choice). While we were trying to get the meal on the table my brother and sister had called and we'd arranged to call them both back after we finished eating which we did.
It was a really nice family Christmas that I'm sure both Dad and the kids are going to remember.
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