Having celebrated my daughter’s 18th yesterday - turning the house into Wonderland - we’ve just started to think about getting festive and the decorations are going up tomorrow. I can’t believe how many went up halfway through November! I feel we’re almost late this year!
We’ll have our usual Christmas at home and have our big Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve as normal. Eldest son and his girlfriend will be joining us for that as our second household and they’re back for Boxing Day to raid the cheese!
As it’s a lovely long weekend my daughter’s boyfriend will potentially come and visit for a day as our third and final household, though we maintain social distancing to a point with him, but it’ll be a real novelty as he hasn’t been allowed to stay over since October and they’ve followed all restrictions and only met outside so far during work lunch breaks. We haven’t taken any chances at all with 3 out of 5 of us at home considered ‘vulnerable’.
It’ll pretty much be a normal Christmas for us to be honest with the usual food and routines.
I like to light my Yule log on the Solstice. It signals the start of the days lengthening and so more weeds coming through and plans for summer flowers to sow and grow, though I love the autumn and winter the most.
I have to get all the decorations down before NYE and have a good clean through and then I have a couple of NY decs I put up ready for a fresh new year. No visitors for NYE or NYD this year and no one out partying either so no 2:30am pick ups in Dads taxi!
Then onwards and upwards into 2021 and we have more special dates to celebrate including the first of the big wedding anniversaries. I have lost weight especially and am determined to maintain it so I can unfold my wedding dress for the first time in 25 years and try it on!
Hoping to be out of Tier 2 by then but it’ll just be us, the kids and their partners and hopefully no rule of six. We will see.
Wow Mary, your garden must be very large if donkeys are on the agenda!
