It’s been a very wonderful Christmas. DmentD took from Christmas Eve off and isn’t back to work until Monday so it’s been fantastic having the time together with nothing urgent  to do.

We were up a little earlier than planned Christmas morning and after breakfast of homemade (by DmentD) pancakes.. the American style, not English, we opened our stockings. I got a very cute ornament for the tree called a Beastlie, we both follow the artist and see what she’s up to, and I got one for his birthday. The required sweet stuff – chocolate and some liquorice sweets, a travel mug and some presents I wasn’t allowed to open yet!

I got DmentD lots of little things for his stocking, a card game of Zombie Fluxx which is fun. And a little Japanese puzzle… that drove him insane.

After both of us had been picking it up, fiddling and then putting it down, I finished it yesterday, then determined to finish it since I had he managed it also!

My main presents I was completely spoilt! I got a shiney new camera, a Canon Powershot, and the most gorgeous and informative book on making chocolates and confectionery. And the mystery gifts in the stocking were a spare battery and a memory card.

I got Dmentd the Discworld animated films and then two shirts. One saying “prefectionist” on it *grins* and one he really wanted with a cthulhu biohazard sign!

We went round to a friends house for dinner, we took along the christmas cake and yule log and ice cream, and were fed a delicious coq au vin. We exchanged presents and finally we could share what we had been keeping a secret.. We had made everyone presents – caramels, rocher, pralines, cookies, hot chocolate kits, gingerbread spoons and homemade marshmallows, and then even dog biscuits for all the pups! (pictures to follow) It was so much fun and I think everyone liked them.

We spent the evening there and much fun and merriment was to be had!

Boxing day I played about with the camera lots, taking photos of the tree and ornaments and the house lit up and playing about with all the many hundreds of settings, altering the colours and contrast. Mid afternoon, ready to be out the house we went to the cinema and saw the Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It was interesting, and I enjoyed it. While it’s a little predictable, you can tell where the story is going to end up, it was very well done and nice to watch.. if you cry easily take a tissue! Dmentd enjoyed it too, and liked that they accurately portrayed New Orleans where most of it was set.

I hope your holidays were just as joyous