Christmas Eve at Home | Blogging My Day
Christmas time is one for enjoying time with the family and relaxing. While the majority of December is often filled with busy jitters over the added socialisation, buying presents and wrapping up projects the Christmas days everything quiets down. Every other year we spend Christmas Eve at home, just the four of us, and I love it.
I didn't used to like the idea when we started the new tradition and couldn't spent Christmas Eve in Jutland with my mother's side of the family. However, divorce and a new husband with extra children added to the stress of everything and now I like our down time at home.
I started my Christmas Eve by getting up too early to going for a forest ride with a couple of the girls form the stables. It was difficult to get my bum out of bed but I was so happy I managed because it turned out to be a wonderful ride with our horses. It was only four of us, a contrary to last year where we were over a dozen. It fitted better with a smaller group and everyone on their own horses, instead of borrowed ones. Obviously, we had to keep tradition and dress up with Christmas themes. I wore a santa's hat and Money got adorned with a stocking.
After I got home, I got to chill for a couple of hours in bed after finishing writing up a Christmas scene for one of my Wattpad books. I fell asleep while watching YouTube videos and got to nap for about an hour before I got up. I went down to chill with the family and before I had the task of making sugar-browned potatoes.
One thing that deserves an honourable mention is my Yankee Candle with the scent Fireside Treats. I bought it in Bath in the start of December and I begun lighting it these days leading up to Christmas. I absolutely adore the scent and can't thank Phil enough for recommending it.
Christmas dinner went so well, by my account, and I'm so proud of Mum who managed most of it with some help from the rest of us. It was bloody delicious and lovely to just sit around the table for an extended period of time, chatting and eating. After the dinner, we moved on to the sofa area where we saw the final episode of the Advent Calendar and played a card game, which was intense but also very funny.
And then it was time for dancing around the Christmas tree and subsequently unpacking presents. We kept our traditions in perfect check, just how I like it. I got so many nice things, despite my iPhone 7 also counting as half a Christmas present, but I won't go into details with those. I will, however, share a photo of Hallie, who was very pleased with her present, which had come all the way from Bath Christmas Market.
By the time we finally wrapped up with the opening presents part, it was almost midnight and the lot of us were knackered. We had to drive to Jutland the following morning and parted ways to our separate rooms. I can't help but wonder if this will be the last Christmas where I live at home. I do want to move out in the new year, but I have a feeling I'll always go "home" for Christmas - whether it'll be my childhood home or somewhere else. I'll always have a home with my closest family members. Hanging out with them 24/7 is a tiny bit exhausting but I do love them, I just need my breaks from time to time.
I didn't used to like the idea when we started the new tradition and couldn't spent Christmas Eve in Jutland with my mother's side of the family. However, divorce and a new husband with extra children added to the stress of everything and now I like our down time at home.
I started my Christmas Eve by getting up too early to going for a forest ride with a couple of the girls form the stables. It was difficult to get my bum out of bed but I was so happy I managed because it turned out to be a wonderful ride with our horses. It was only four of us, a contrary to last year where we were over a dozen. It fitted better with a smaller group and everyone on their own horses, instead of borrowed ones. Obviously, we had to keep tradition and dress up with Christmas themes. I wore a santa's hat and Money got adorned with a stocking.
After I got home, I got to chill for a couple of hours in bed after finishing writing up a Christmas scene for one of my Wattpad books. I fell asleep while watching YouTube videos and got to nap for about an hour before I got up. I went down to chill with the family and before I had the task of making sugar-browned potatoes.
One thing that deserves an honourable mention is my Yankee Candle with the scent Fireside Treats. I bought it in Bath in the start of December and I begun lighting it these days leading up to Christmas. I absolutely adore the scent and can't thank Phil enough for recommending it.
Christmas dinner went so well, by my account, and I'm so proud of Mum who managed most of it with some help from the rest of us. It was bloody delicious and lovely to just sit around the table for an extended period of time, chatting and eating. After the dinner, we moved on to the sofa area where we saw the final episode of the Advent Calendar and played a card game, which was intense but also very funny.
And then it was time for dancing around the Christmas tree and subsequently unpacking presents. We kept our traditions in perfect check, just how I like it. I got so many nice things, despite my iPhone 7 also counting as half a Christmas present, but I won't go into details with those. I will, however, share a photo of Hallie, who was very pleased with her present, which had come all the way from Bath Christmas Market.
By the time we finally wrapped up with the opening presents part, it was almost midnight and the lot of us were knackered. We had to drive to Jutland the following morning and parted ways to our separate rooms. I can't help but wonder if this will be the last Christmas where I live at home. I do want to move out in the new year, but I have a feeling I'll always go "home" for Christmas - whether it'll be my childhood home or somewhere else. I'll always have a home with my closest family members. Hanging out with them 24/7 is a tiny bit exhausting but I do love them, I just need my breaks from time to time.
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