Christmas

The last few days have been a hectic beautiful wonderful blur. On Thursday i went a little crazy in preparation for my Christmas Party Friday. ( I baked like 100 Cookies) The week anyway was exciting as i was late... Thursday came and went and on Fri my excitement about parties was heavily shadowed by the fact that i discovered that it was yet another chemical pregnancy. The party was lovely but i had terrible headache for the first 4 hrs and at one point i would have liked to curl under the tree with a hot water bottle...still it was lovely to be surrounded by friends and by the end of the day i started to feel better. Here is a picture. 

I was also reminded how getting several 2 years in a room together can result in the type mayhem that is not compatible with hiding under the tree. Ceyda had her first time out in her Bedroom.Here we all are in my living room.

 I was really proud of my decorations this year. The house felt/feels very Christmassy. Christmas day was lovely.... the night before Ceyda and i came downstairs to prepare milk cookies  and carrots for Santa and Rudolph and...we heard a ho ho ho from the living room. We peeked thgrough a crack in the door and there was Santa (lovely Dh in a Santa suit) putting presents under the tree. Ceyda was shocked i wish i could have taken a photo of the wide eyes as we sneaked up stairs.  The conversation afterwards about Santa lenghthend our bedtime routine alot but it was worth it. 

On Christmas day after Ceyda has opened all her presents i sobbed for two hours..went for a family walk and then finally got started on my Jamie Oliver Christmas Turkey. The day ended with my favourite Christmas movie Love Actually. Perfect. Here are some pics.

Yay Presents 

More Presents !!

Seriously Yummy !!

Mummy do i have to smile 

mmmm

Daddy play !!