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Welcome to my family's Christmas!
This is the serious photo. The silly photo is silly. :)
This photo encompasses:
Me, my two sisters, mum, stepdad, two stepbrothers, a stepsis-in-law, a stepsis-in-law's mum, three uncles, two aunts-by-marriage, an uncle's girlfriend (fiancee, actually: I saw the ring, it was HOLY COW GINORMOUS), five cousins (out of a possible nine), one cousin-in-law, and four second cousins once removed.
Our Christmas is simple: people arrive for lunch, lunch is eaten, then we roam or collapse into food comas - this year, due to the four second cousins once removed, we roamed the house and the garden and played games and discovered tadpoles, played tennis, banana scrabble ("split!" "peel!" "BANANA!"), had a lot of fun trying to corral the two year old, and I didn't get around to reading my Yuletide until late afternoon/early evening.
At which point my stepdad tried to feed us dinner.
I received some lovely presents this year - a triple scented candle, a stick of Besame lipstick (Red Velvet; Peggy Carter's colour), some very pretty Maxwell Williams china and porcelain, and the usual gift card from the stepbros. :)
Me and the lipstick:
Bitch crimson all the way!
Oh, and a goat. Which was given to a family in Mozambique on my behalf from my mother. :D
I gave gift cards to my sisters and my stepbrothers because I spent all my time making the gift for the parentals:
That would be the two circular cushions on the seating set, which match the quilt and pillows on the bed (which I made previously).
In progress:
Detail:
Twas an excellent Christmas.
This is the serious photo. The silly photo is silly. :)
This photo encompasses:
Me, my two sisters, mum, stepdad, two stepbrothers, a stepsis-in-law, a stepsis-in-law's mum, three uncles, two aunts-by-marriage, an uncle's girlfriend (fiancee, actually: I saw the ring, it was HOLY COW GINORMOUS), five cousins (out of a possible nine), one cousin-in-law, and four second cousins once removed.
Our Christmas is simple: people arrive for lunch, lunch is eaten, then we roam or collapse into food comas - this year, due to the four second cousins once removed, we roamed the house and the garden and played games and discovered tadpoles, played tennis, banana scrabble ("split!" "peel!" "BANANA!"), had a lot of fun trying to corral the two year old, and I didn't get around to reading my Yuletide until late afternoon/early evening.
At which point my stepdad tried to feed us dinner.
I received some lovely presents this year - a triple scented candle, a stick of Besame lipstick (Red Velvet; Peggy Carter's colour), some very pretty Maxwell Williams china and porcelain, and the usual gift card from the stepbros. :)
Me and the lipstick:
Bitch crimson all the way!
Oh, and a goat. Which was given to a family in Mozambique on my behalf from my mother. :D
I gave gift cards to my sisters and my stepbrothers because I spent all my time making the gift for the parentals:
That would be the two circular cushions on the seating set, which match the quilt and pillows on the bed (which I made previously).
In progress:
Detail:
Twas an excellent Christmas.
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Hope your Christmas was similarly good! (And if not, hope you're getting a chance to wind down before having to go back to work.)