This Christmas season has been one of the busiest Christmases on record for me with so much to do and see and so neat to have my parents visiting from Samoa with many visiting over and to spend this together with them and family has been a real blessing.So apart from last minute shopping, it was also lovely to attend our churches Christmas Eve service at Life South campus and then to count down (or the children did it) the last seconds until Christmas day and then to open their first present at midnight (family tradition).
Early the next morning, a sang nostagic Christmas carols with my beloved and then started the preparations for the day after having wrapped Christmas presents under the Christmas tree the night before with an eagerly anticipating youngster impatiently awaiting for Christmas morning to officially open presents.
So for Christmas morning, I spent three hours in the kitchen preparing our feast lunch/dinner which was another Christmas present to our family and so neat to see a big smile on their faces on the day which consisted of:
- a dressed ham
- potato salad
- surimi salad
- sapasui
- chicken and vege curry
- 2 x trifles (with ice cream and chocolate log)
A simple menu that kept us returning for seconds and thirds in the remainder of the day whilst enjoying the company of each other and watching the children enjoy their gifts and listening to Christmas songs and happy music all day long.
And then finally to spend time with my eldest watching a Christmas movie until the wee hours of the morning and realising what a blessing this Christmas season has been for us as a family to spend precious time together in understanding the real reason for the season as the birth of a child who literally changed the world...
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