Christmas was a little sad this year...

on the whole it was a nice day and the children had a lovely time.  Esaias woke us up at 4:30am-ish and the children sat on our bed and opened their presents from their stockings.  Esaias got his fake poo in his stocking and exclaimed "Just what I wanted!!" so we were on to a winner from the outset!  We then woke Uncle Aiden up as he was staying with us, and went down stairs.  Caitlin got the Sylvanian Beechwood Hall - it has working lights with light switches - and the elephant Sylvanian family.  Esaias got a blue Wii remote and the Little Einsteins Pat Pat rocket, and Nathan got a Police helicopter and Buzz Lightyear.  They all loved their presents and had a fun time playing on them.  Lewis and Uncle Aiden went back to their beds, while Caitlin and I did very quiet karaoke  on the Wii as Lewis bought me the Glee game for the Wii...we waited until 7am to turn it up!
Lewis got all snuggled up in his new pjs and slippers, I think he was quite pleased with them!
We had a family Christmas dinner at Uncle Paul's and the boys (the grown up boys) had a Nerf gun fight over the dinner table with even my Nanna joining in.  The highlight of which was Lewis running in with a pig mask on (one of the children's gifts) and a big nerf gun shouting "It's the 'pigs'!!"  He got shot a lot after that!
The low point was the behaviour of my Mum who didn't get to sit where she wanted at the table and decided to make my life a misery because of it.  I am afraid to say I grew so tired of her childish behaviour that I took our family home and that made me sad.
 Later on that evening we got a call from Lewis's mum to let us know that Lewis's cousin who had just a few days earlier been given 3 weeks to live, had passed away on Christmas day.  Lewis hasn't seen him since he was about 12, but he was upset for his family.
Moving on, we have visited Lewis's family and seen the majority of his siblings, and we have had my little cousins Cameron (10), Oliver (7) and Theo (16 weeks) to sleep last night while their Mum and Dad went for a bike ride in the peaks so that's been fun.  On New Year's Eve we have Lewis's brother Darryl, his wife Alison and their three children coming over so it should be a fun evening :)