Was Christmas really a month ago today? Yup.

As I said earlier, we had a nice one. Full of friends and family. We had ten adults and five kids staying over from Christmas eve to the day after boxing day, as well. That includes us. We fully filled up the house and then some.

It was great. Everybody took a turn in the kitchen cooking, and everybody jumped in to help clean up and somehow it all fell together beautifully.

Christmas day worked really well. After a fantastic pancake brekky, we assaulted the tree and opened presents. That went on for hours. Then after a long morning at it and a lot of milling around, we finally sat down the Christmas dinner about 4pm I think it was. And you know, all the toddlers and babies chose that time to be asleep, so it was a lovely sit down meal around the big table in the conservatory.

There are some photos about somewhere. We keep trying to get them up on flickr. One day soon.

It stopped raining on Boxing day and the clouds cleared, so we all set out for Cuckmere Haven for a walk. The sun shined a lot and we all got a lot of sky and air, which was a good thing after the insideness of Christmas day.

What else to say? It was a lot of fun, and pretty exhausting all around. Whose house are we going to next year? :-)