Christmas 2010

We stayed up a little later than usual with Lara, Carolyn and the girls on Christmas Eve. Lara was very excited and showed off her ballet dancing and performed silly acts. I woke up the earliest at 7:30 on Christmas morning to feed Sam but had a fuzzy head and a small headache.

The in-laws arrived at 9am and we all sat down and had a big breakfast of ham, croissant, rock melon and champaign before the presents were opened. Even though Mother-in-law and I tried to do as much as we can beforehand, there were still a lot of preparation food-wise on Christmas Day.



People nibbled on nuts, chips, fruit, cheese and crackers and had prawns before we served Christmas dinner at 3pm. I went outside to watch Lara and her cousins playing with bubbles between cooking.



For dinner we had roasted potatos, carrots, peas, three types of meat (rolled and stuffed turkey breast, ham and pork belly), three salads (roasted vegetable couscous salad, green salad and Chinese cabbage salad) and three deserts (Christmas pudding, mangomisu and lemon tart). We had so much food left that we didn't need to cook much for another set of relatives who where here on Boxing day (thank God). In fact we are still eating left-overs from Christmas day!

ps Grandma and Sam had matching clothes on both days!!