Christmas in this household is a time to hibernate. We have a big build to Christmas Day, cooking, cleaning and decorating every inch of the house, then Christmas Day come; up at 5 opening presents, mum cooking dinner with her brother the vegetarian helping her with the turkey, more presents then napping infront of the television. Boxing Day going in a similar way in terms of lots of people over, but as its my mums birthday everything is at a must slower pace. We lay on a buffet, people don't come over till later in the day, we go for a walk wrapped up in our new scarves, we play games and then curl up and nap infront of the television again. It's a lots of busy busy busy then nothing.
The days following Boxing Day are ours. We don't leave the house, nobody comes over, we wear our Christmas pjs all, build Lego sets whilst eating our body weight in cheese. Time doesn't matter anymore, we just enjoy our time together, feeling lucky and loved. There's no other time like it, there's just this sense of weightlessness in the house, everyone's together, nobody's stressed having to go anywhere, do anything. Unfortunately this kind of high comes with a pretty big fall, but least on the way down to January we've got some things to look back on.
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