Still Christmas. . . and I love it !

Great Christmas for 2 humans and 3 furry cutiepies !

We will have daughter and her friends for New Year and my birthday.

After the divorce we changed our Christmas, 

from the big x's family to just a tiny family of four.

So nice and so much more fun.

Now on the day before the 24 we cook and bake. Drive around looking at the lights on 

the houses. Just having fun. 

Then on the 24th we cook Christmas Dinner sit down and enjoy a nice relaxing dinner.

Now we have dinner ready for a quick warm up for the 25th.

When daughter, partner and her Mom were here we would have Brunch on Christmas Morning.  Deviled eggs, tiny egg sandwiches, fruit, bread, prosciutto,  ham, pickles, olives, chutney, sweet rolls, prosecco and fruit, We would eat our way through gift opening.

It is just a great way to spend time with family and who ever is here.

Easy and fun. Leftovers are great.

Son and I did the same thing but much smaller.
Brunch was an egg, hashbrowns, cheese and sausage casserole that you make
the night before and then just bake. Fabulous and so easy !

We ate, opened gift and played with thehamish, Merida and Oliver.

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 i thehamish waitin' for santa gud dug

 kattie oliver waitin'

 kattie merida not waitin'

 i thehamish gots' new duck

 duck duck duck

 duck duck urmmmuffffffff 

 gud duck

gurff

nurrfer nommm

 duck gud

i thehamish likin' gifts

 i thehamish likin' katties toy

ball ball  ball ballballball ball ball gud ball    ball

 i thehamish is likin' duck

 now i thehamish is tired needin' nap

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i thehamish gots to watch a movie with nice tall person who feeds me
about charlie brown snoopy and a tree it was gud

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Our Christmas dinner was Duck Breast, Grilled Salad and Mashed potatoes.

It was so tasty and as you can see someone wanted some Duck.

 I had to lighten up the photos so you can see Merida's face.

This photo just cracks me up. The look on her face is so amazing.

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I sat on the sofa looking up through the high windows with thehamish and we watched the
clouds go by. Wonderful wonderful wonderful.

Oh No !
Quick update,
We had to rush thehamish to the vets and 9am today. He had some sort of episode,
he was violently shaking and panting. After a  quick check-up and the diabetes check on,
they could find nothing wrong. So he is home and resting now.
Hello.... that was a scary wake up call.
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santa. . . parsnip
music. . .  The Holly and the Ivy,  Annie Lennox