Christmas Day!

Christmas day was brilliant! We went to bed quite late the previous night - Jeremy went to midnight mass first.

At 2am the girls appeared in our bedroom - asking if it was okay to go downstairs and check to see if Father Christmas had been... we put them back to bed after explaining that it was too early and we needed to keep the lights off to let Father Christmas know that we were still in bed!!!

The next time they got up it was 7.20am - much more civilised.

When we got downstairs the girls were so excited - they had got a rocking horse for Christmas - Lily said "Mummy, I always wanted a rocking horse!" - this was a huge relief to me as every day she had been asking for a "Pink Nintendo DS" - which I didn't want to get her just yet as she is still pretty rough on her toys and I don't think it would stand up to being hurled across the room!! We had got Lily and Rowanne a rocking horse to share instead. I asked Lily why she hadn't ever asked for a rocking horse - and she said it was because she never thought she would get one! Rowanne was particularly thrilled with her Ariel "Barbie" doll, along with the Rocking horse - which is a big hit with her too!

Alfie took a lot more notice than we had thought, he seemed quite keen on ripping open wrapping paper and seeing what was inside - he caught onto this very quickly and was soon looking across the room to see what surprises other people were getting too!

Gabrielle was also very pleased with her presents - a set of the "Twilight" reading books, some clothes, store vouchers (always a good buy for the teenage girl!), makeup, jewellery etc. etc...

Father Christmas had eaten his mince pie, and Rudolph had taken shared his carrot with the other reindeer - and Father Christmas had even left some powdery snowy footprints in the living room!

We went over the Grandma and Grandad's at lunchtime, and had a fun afternoon there and a really good Christmas Dinner (turkey and all the trimmings!) before bringing the tired children back home and putting them all to bed.