How did your Christmas go?

If you celebrate Christmas,I hope you
had a lovely time with whoever you spent it with. It's been a little busy for me the past few days, that I haven't had much time to get online. There was the usual last minute shopping, with a very welcoming sight for festive shoppers outside the supermarket.

In recent years, these toppers have appeared in many places in UK. Knitters or crocheters make these beautiful toppers and place them on the top of our iconic red letter boxes. They change with the season, like Easter, Halloween, Christmas or even the Coronation earlier this year. These people are incredibly talented and bring so much joy to the community.

Some of the supermarket shelves were starting to go empty already, particularly the Christmas food.

I bought a whole salmon as they're always on offer at Christmas. Salmon is such a versatile fish and so easy to cook, I always stock up when they're on offer. This one is over 3kg,and I cut it up to four portions for freezing which means it's enough for eight people.

Christmas is also about remembering those who are no longer with us. It's been a while since I've visited my parents grave.

On Christmas day I hosted dinner for my sister in law and her family. This is their second Christmas in UK and I figured I'd cook them a traditional Christmas dinner. OK, not 100% traditional as I did gammon instead of turkey, and the sides didn't go as well as I would have liked. But overall I think it was ok.

I think I did much better with the dessert.

Yesterday, on Boxing Day we went over to my brother's. That's always quite a big social gathering as I have 4 siblings living nearby, plus their kids and grand kids who sometimes turn up. My niece @kathrynkw came with her kids and I did my great aunty duties playing with her son in the garden. It was so lovely watching him play and his sound of laughter just makes my heart melt.

Nowadays we don't do Christmas presents anymore. Last week hubby saw a bottle of Springbank whisky in the shops. They're a bit hard to come by so he was very pleased when the price was reasonably affordable. When he went to pay he realised he forgot to top up his debit card so I paid it using my card and told him that's his Christmas present 🎁 😂

Last and not the least, I cannot not mention the lovely Christmas package I received from @zirochka that arrived just in time for Christmas, perfect timing. It included a bunch of Christmas goodies all the way from Ukraine. The ceramic Christmas tree decorations looks so stunning on my tree.

How did you spend your Christmas and did you have any nice surprises?