GilesGuthrie
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- Edinburgh, UK
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We have my parents coming to stay this year. Good thing is that with all the parental/compassionate leave I've had this year, I still have loads of annual leave to take, so I finish work on Friday 15th.
15th-21st Dec: Prepare house for Christmas, including remodelling the study as a dining room, and the junk room as a guest bedroom.
22nd Dec: Tesco food order delivery. Work's christmas party.
23rd: My parents arrive. Go very early to store to buy anything that I forgot to order/they didn't have in the home delivery.
24th: Collect turkey et al from butcher. Boozy lunch with parents and kids in town.
25th...
07:00 Emma (2.5 years old) awakens. Give her milk, watch some TV.
08:00 Up for breakfast. Ensure that everything is in place in the kitchen for the cooking marathon that is about to ensue.
09:00 Time for a quick sharpener: Cava & Sloe Gin in the kind of Kir Royale mode. Hand off preparation of smoked salmon to my mother. She loves that! (heh heh heh). Arrange presents in living room. Take photos. Commence opening presents, probably starting with Emma's "stocking" presents, and doing the lion's share of Jonathan's (3 months old) presents.
10:00 Wife's parents and sisters arrive. There will now be at least 9 adults and two children in a 13'x13 room. I'll probably hide in the kitchen in the guise of preparing lunch. Actually, probably better start preparing lunch.
11:00 Maybe open some adult presents.
12:00 Probably still opening children's presents. Most presents lost in the sea of discarded wrapping paper and packaging from the children's presents. Oh yeah, we've probably lost the "who gave what" list by now.
13:00 In-laws leave. Mayhem decreases from 11/10 to 9/10. Consider giving Emma some "strawberry juice" (Calpol) to help her get some sleep.
14:00 Lunch preparation into overdrive now. All others banished from kitchen.
15:15 (after the Queen's speech) Lunch Served.
17:00 Pudding served
18:00 World-class lazing around. Half-arsed attempts to play with Emma hampered by alcohol consumption and extreme torpor/fatigue.
19:30 Emma bed
20:00 Turkey Sandwich munching to commence. Play Buzz Quiz on PS2.
23:00 Bed.
26th: World-class lazing around. Serious attempts to play with Emma.
15th-21st Dec: Prepare house for Christmas, including remodelling the study as a dining room, and the junk room as a guest bedroom.
22nd Dec: Tesco food order delivery. Work's christmas party.
23rd: My parents arrive. Go very early to store to buy anything that I forgot to order/they didn't have in the home delivery.
24th: Collect turkey et al from butcher. Boozy lunch with parents and kids in town.
25th...
07:00 Emma (2.5 years old) awakens. Give her milk, watch some TV.
08:00 Up for breakfast. Ensure that everything is in place in the kitchen for the cooking marathon that is about to ensue.
09:00 Time for a quick sharpener: Cava & Sloe Gin in the kind of Kir Royale mode. Hand off preparation of smoked salmon to my mother. She loves that! (heh heh heh). Arrange presents in living room. Take photos. Commence opening presents, probably starting with Emma's "stocking" presents, and doing the lion's share of Jonathan's (3 months old) presents.
10:00 Wife's parents and sisters arrive. There will now be at least 9 adults and two children in a 13'x13 room. I'll probably hide in the kitchen in the guise of preparing lunch. Actually, probably better start preparing lunch.
11:00 Maybe open some adult presents.
12:00 Probably still opening children's presents. Most presents lost in the sea of discarded wrapping paper and packaging from the children's presents. Oh yeah, we've probably lost the "who gave what" list by now.
13:00 In-laws leave. Mayhem decreases from 11/10 to 9/10. Consider giving Emma some "strawberry juice" (Calpol) to help her get some sleep.
14:00 Lunch preparation into overdrive now. All others banished from kitchen.
15:15 (after the Queen's speech) Lunch Served.
17:00 Pudding served
18:00 World-class lazing around. Half-arsed attempts to play with Emma hampered by alcohol consumption and extreme torpor/fatigue.
19:30 Emma bed
20:00 Turkey Sandwich munching to commence. Play Buzz Quiz on PS2.
23:00 Bed.
26th: World-class lazing around. Serious attempts to play with Emma.
