Not so auspiciously I blew the lights in the kids' bedrooms when I had a shower upstairs with the heater and the lights on! Steve says it's a fairly complicated procedure to get them fixed as we have to get someone in to get up in the roofspace.
We had our now traditional Christmas breakfast of bacon with pancakes. Then we tidied up the kitchen a bit before letting the kids open the first round of presents. I started the dinner then helped Rose make some plaster farm animals, Steve built Josh's lego present and Naomi pottered around with her toys. We decided to let Naomi open her big present as she didn't really have anything she could settle with by herself. She was so delighted with her doll's house. We had to banish Rose to the other room while Naomi opened the boxes which held furniture for each room because she was trying to organise where everything would go and we said it was Naomi's decision.
Our friend Karen came over to eat dinner with us, so we told the children to get dressed before she came! Our lunch was lovely but we were having beef instead of turkey - being rather "turkeyed out" - but it wasn't cooked enough so I left it in the oven and we ate it on sandwiches for tea. Thankfully, I had made a nut loaf so all was not lost! Naomi was so desperate to play with her doll's house that she barely ate anything (unusual for her) and asked if she could get down. We agreed it was going to achieve anything by making her sit there so off she went.
After lunch we let the kids open more presents. I liked splitting the present opening up as it felt like it wasn't so many, the children actually looked at what they had opened and even got to enjoy some of them before moving onto the next lot. We cleared out some of our old toys to make room for the new ones.
We let the kids stay up later so they could chat to Steve's family and, of course, we had a parade of the new toys and books.
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