The last days to Christmas

The chaos is over, the kids are home from school and hubby is home for two weeks. We can relax, unwind, embrace, cherish, share, laugh, cry, love and be one as a family. We dived into it on Friday night with a meal with very special friends and a beautiful bouquet of gorgeous flowers from the man I love. Not just any flowers, but a very special Protea, South Africa's national flower, sitting amongst the rest of the beauties.

Yesterday afternoon the family all rolled up their sleeves to make our traditional marzipan for the Christmas cake. Everyone chipped in and helped, its become a bit of a tradition and we always use this recipe that is both fool proof and delicious.

There was a little marzipan left over so I had a go at making some chocolates. I simply cut some stem ginger rolled them in marzipan and then dipped them in melted dark chocolate. I also made some plain marzipan in chocolate as an alternative. The end result is surprisingly delicious and definitely much better than seeing this lovely marzipan go to waste.

 

Today we enjoyed a wonderful couple of hours soaking up the Christmas cheer at the Treacle market and then this evening we joined some friends for the Church carol service, which was wonderful.

 

 

Presents are all wrapped and all we have left to do now is to go and watch our Christmas movie, Frozen, prepare the food and spend some time with friends and family, which for me is the best part of Christmas. I so wish Ma and Pa were here with us, its always a time when I really miss them.

 

 

I will be taking a little break from blogging over the next few weeks to savour time with my loved ones, but before I sign off I wanted to thank each and everyone who take time out of your busy lives to stop by and read my blog. Thank you to everyone who always leave such wonderful comments, you have truly enriched my life beyond anything I can put into words. The last 11 months have been incredible and I have made some wonderful friends and met some truly grounded and inspirational individuals. You have given me strength on days when I really didn't think I could get out of bed. You gave me hope on days when I felt that life was just a little to hard to contemplate.

I wish each and everyone of you and your families around the world a very magical Christmas filled with laughter, love and joy and may each of you be blessed to have a happy and healthy new year.

 

Leaving you with a few jokes from little J's advent calendar this year, courtesy of maltersers.

 

What do you get if you cross a hen with a bedside clock?

An alarm cluck!

 

Who hides in the bakery at Christmas?

A mince spy!

 

What do snowmen eat for lunch?

Icebergers!

 

What do you get if you eat Christmas decorations?

Tinsilitis!

 

What do you call just married spiders?

Newly-webs!

 

Who delivers cat's Christmas presents?

Santa Paws!

 

What kin of paper likes music?

Rapping paper!

 

What do you get if you cross a snowman and a shark?

Frost bite!

 

Why did the golfer wear an extra pair of trousers?

In case he got a hole in one!

 

 

Ho Ho Ho!!!

 

 

Merry Christmas

Hannapat

xoxo