On The Second Day of Christmas

It's the second day of Christmas, I'm up early as usual , doing a little cleaning up. There is very little to d o as the 'main event' didn't take place in our house !

It was a very different little boy that awoke Christmas morning. Last year, he lost interest in opening presesnts. Not this year !! He was so excited  ! No doubt spurred on with the amount of chocolate he had consumed bfore we made it over there at 8 am.  Gifts were thoughtfully given and greatefully received. After breakfast, we headed home. I prepared most of the veggies and stuffing balls, showered and relaxed. It was great !

We had a phonecall from EGS and GD who were spending Christmas in Arizona. They've been swimming everyday and GD was excited about her new bathing suit  !

ES and YGS went over for a short visit to the other grandparents who also had a few friends over. One of the gifts given were for a 1 year old ! In fact it was the same toy that ES had given away as it was not being played with. The child is 4 1/2 and he informed them that he played with Lego ! Oh well, such is life. ES has handled the relationship with the grandparents very well. Although she didn't believe me last Christmas that she would see her grandson, I didn't lie. I knew that my son was a decent loving father and he would do what was best for his child. And it is in the best interest of
his child that he know and have a relationship with his maternal grandparents--- on his terms.

Christmas dinner was lovely. We packed up a meal for ES who had to work and YS and myself drove it over and had a short visit. Some business owners are so greedy that they want to squeeze every penny that they can. He lost yesterdy ! Only the manager[ my son ] and the assistant manager worked [ the other employees didn't want to ! ] so he'll be paying a hefty amount out in overtime pay !  And they get to do it all over again on January 1st .OH and ED played pingpong and pool while we were out. YGS was cleaning up his toys in the basement.


We finally tasted our fruit liqueurs we made 16 months ago and they were delicious.

I am still knitting an infinity scarf for ED. I had hoped to have it finished for Christmas morning[ another one was finished. I called it Claire's scarf/shawl after the one Claire from Outlanders wears :) ] However I had to make a stocking for Marley. All the family pets have their own stockings. Fortunately I had had one knit and just had to put her name and decorations on. Then I had some material that I had no use for so I made two dog bed/mats on Christmas Eve !

Today the World Junior  Hockey Championships start and it looks like we may have a full house. Good thing we have a fridge full of leftovers.

As an aside the egg donor is 'in a relationship' looks like she found one that is making some money so she'll be happy. We all knew that it would happen as she has no job, no car and needs someone to support her.Seems like they all switch partners in that town. Her poor daughter with all the different and constantly changing relationships.