Monday, December 29, 2008
What We Did on Christmas Day
29-DEC-2008:
Last year, we spent Christmas in Switzerland. This year we were supposed to spend Christmas in Wales. Daddy had already booked the hotel - a new one which was due to open for business before Christmas - but just a few days before that the hotel e-mailed saying that they were not ready yet and offered us either a full refund or another hotel. He chose the full refund.
On the morning of Dec 25, Dominic and I went to the church (daddy was too lazy to get dressed so we went without him). I kind of expected a grand event with lots of kids (and adults) and perhaps a play, much like the other ones we've attended. But perhaps this is a small neighbourhood, the church was quite empty (but there were more people than usual) and Dominic was the only small kid there. I felt that when he spoke, everybody could hear him. It was quite embarassing and I hope that the people thought he was cute rather than annoying. During hymns and carols, he kept asking what's that song or commented that the music was too slow. He also covered my mouth with his hands and told me to stop singing. And he kept complaining that he couldn't see what was in front. For the record, this was the 2nd time I took Dominic to a church service. The first time was during Easter about 2 years back and that church was crowded and noisy and it didn't matter that he made noise. This time though, I have to say he behaved quite well during that 1 hour (except that he couldn't stop talking). Although there wasn't much of a celebration but at least he got chocolates.
After that we spent the rest of the day at home and I cooked both lunch and dinner. This year daddy got Dominic two presents - a bicycle and a VTech Vsmile TV game console - photos to come later.
On Boxing Day, we attended a friend's Christmas party and had some good food.
We received Christmas gifts.
There was a huge turkey.
And plenty of other food.
They played Jenga.
Dominic sang karaoke.
Then he waited impatiently for ice-cream (we told him he could have ice-cream if he sang a song).
And he got his ice-cream.
So happy!
