Christmas was very different from the norm for me this year. I did not spend it with family. Instead my son and I went to the bf in Badplaas. The bf’’s daughters joined us in Badplaas. The youngest was just a barrel of fun and got us properly into the Christmas spirit by pouring us “kersboompies”. Yes it was as hectic as it sounds. She found apple sours, which is green, and cherry sours, which is red and poured a shot of each into glasses. We were then instructed to pour them both into our mouth and shake our heads vigorously and then swallow. My goodness, it was a head rush of note. The vigorous shaking of our heads didn’t do much to keep us perched on our bar stools either. But it was loads of fun, we had good laughs and eventually got to bed at 01h30 Christmas morning.

My son woke at the crack of dawn, extremely excited that Father Christmas had actually found him and delivered his presents. After our Christmas Eve celebrations I was in no mood to get up, but I couldn’t disappoint my little man. He was totally spoilt. He’d asked Father Christmas for a remote controlled front end loader – which he got. The bf really went totally overboard and bought him a Scalextric set. It was so sweet to watch. He was so excited he could hardly contain himself and was jumping up and down like the energizer bunny. My saving grace though was that I had bought him Ice Age 3 on dvd. We had to charge the batteries for the front end loader (mercifully) and so the next best thing to do was to watch the dvd – with earphones on! I told him I had no clue how to put the Scalextric set together. I was lucky enough to score another hours sleep before having to get up and prepare for the Christmas lunch.

Joy beyond words when opening gifts

Christmas lunch was superb. The restaurant staff cooked and we took full advantage. I could totally get used to sitting outside enjoying some wine, and then being told lunch is ready and going into the restaurant and sitting down to a 3 course meal. The food was divine, and we ate our fill. Such a bonus – I didn’t even have to do dishes!!

Table Decorations

Enjoying good food, good wine & good company

After lunch the bf went to have an afternoon nap. Thank goodness, because he was not in a totally fabulous mood the morning, after the night before. The girls and I took our kids to the pool. Again much fun was had with pushing each other under water, giving each other “wedgies” and just generally fooling around. When the sun was setting daughter no 3 and I put together a few of the leftovers and took it to the pool where we all sat and carried on eating, drinking and having a totally rocking time.

My Son Swimming like a pro

All in all, it was a good day and I relaxed and had fun.