So That Was Christmas

Let us be as brief as possible about Christmas Day.. 

I awoke extremely early which peeved me because that was the second consecutive short night. This was hours before the scheduled online rendez-vous at 6. Sue arose just in time, but the kids didn't. Incredibly, they slept until 7:30, probably because they were tired after celebrating Christmas on the previous day at their Dad's.

Eventually we opened stockings etc over Facetime, which had to be restarted time again because our internet connection which was once of sufficient bandwidth is now stressing under greater, modern demands.

But we managed, and then the kids came over shortly after lunch which is where the pictures begin -- all from Sue's phone because, as previously disclosed, dumb-dumb accidentally formatted his memory card, The phone pics are fine, however; they don't have to be high art, but just a record, which they are.

We opened the family gifts together. Among other items, I got a lensball and Danica got a sweatshirt. Of course, there would have been more photos on my camera.

We played games at several intervals.during the day, specifically Sorry and Uno.

We had Mom's lasagna for supper.

Christmas Crackers are a tradition. Shauna had brought homemade, reusable ones for the first time ever. They don't actually crack, however. Danica was happy with hers, but Buppa puzzled over his,

 

There followed, the post-Christmas dinner writing in the book: another tradition. Allowances must be made if it is not be quite to the Queen's standard, but we try.

They both slept over, and both stayed up later than grandma who crashed very early and grandpa who did hang in until a reasonable bedtime.