Go? Christmas!

What a wonderful day and a delicious one! Thank you to everyone who sent gifts to make the day so abundant and to George and Lorraine for getting up very very early in the cold, dark New Brunswick morning to come and share your special day with us.

PLEASE start at the bottom of the post to get the flow of events.


While mum stays up to put away the haul (check out the clothes again!!!) and dad works on finishing up those annual movies...


Off to bed in his new robe.


Grandmother and granddaughter play dolls.


Sophie - with post-3 hour nap!!! hair - opens her spiral craft toy from the Geneva cousins.


Sophie (swathed in her new dressing gown) has some dollies for her dollhouse.


Child Power!!! Capes and wristbands made by Nana (inspired from a booth at the One of a Kind Show) from Value Village curtains.


Is it a royal robe, a child power cape, a magician's cloak?


Cool science and nature combine in one kit.


Une tire-lire (piggy bank) and un pot (a pouring pot) de Marite. And nothing broke/rien a casse!!! Merci, Michel, Marite et Mamie Suzanne.


Mirror, mirror...


I love that they are so pleased with being all dressed up, with being siblings, with being themselves!


Yes, she is brushing her hair with a BRAND-NEW dish brush.

Say it ain't so.

Cheeky monkey and her Nana (who looks so alert despite having awoken at 3 a.m.; she was excited about Santa, even though she pretends that she was just worried about missing the crack of dawn flight to her grandkiddies)

George's traditional bubble bread (the gooey treacle is bubbling away in the pot on the stove)

M nipped off very early to get a shower and get dressed. He was tired of looking scruffy in the Xmas photos! I come off looking pretty fine in my pjs and sororal dressing gown from Vietnam.

The sleds! But we have no snow......... No prizes for guessing whose is whose.


Some stocking stuffers. The past two years Santa hasn't been able to haul everything up the stairs (old age, you know). There is a small stocking waiting at the foot of each bed, but then there is "overflow" (wink, wink) and Santa's big gift (sleds this year) downstairs which we just happen to open when G&L arrive. The kids aren't allowed to come downstairs until 10 mins after G&L's arrival (picture us madly opening boxes and and stuffing stockings in the sitting room with eager munchkins bouncing around their bedroom)