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Merry Christmas!!!  

Happy Christmas everyone!   

To celebrate the occasion, I would like to share one of my favourite Christmas songs:



I hope all of you have a splendid time with your families, wherever you may be on the globe.

very nice. i'll leave you all with a few pics of how pancakes look like in serbia (sweet and saulty). yam   

Those pictures looks so delicious Tanita   I'm already hungry.


Anyway, Merry Christmas to everyone :D hope you're having a great dinner with your beloved people.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Christmas.   

I spent mine with my friends mum and friend. He is housemate and best friend.

Didn't want to go at first as my friend the son and the mum don't always get along. She has bi-polar, so she can really sweet then she can be really nasty and hurtful.

We actually had a good time. The meal was lovely. Got so full I dozed off in an arm-chair while everyone else was outside trying to stay cool.

She bought me tonnes of cat figurines that I don't know where to put them, among other things I got.

We weren't even there for a day, when my friend wanted to come back home yesterday, so we left after six. 

It took six hours to get there, to his mum's as she lives inter-state.

His mum cooked a roast pork dinner, with roast potatoes, roast carrot, roast pumpkin, peas and corn, and yorkshire puddings.  

I ate more then my dad. My weight is around 100 pounds.   

My Christmas was actually very eventful and for once not really in the positive way. I have a big sister to sell who acts like 20 years below her age. My little sister has to learn the lesson making fun of me and then getting mad when I start to complain, really isn't nice   

Yeah, but the food was very good. We had meat fondue.

i hate all you skinny bitches.      

It's not Christmas without getting irritated by some 'funny' family members.     

We had my hubby's parents over for dinner, which had to be served and eaten at 12.30u in the afternoon, as that's what my parents in law are used to and my father in law (who's 89) has stomach problems so he can't eat much food in the evening. So that means I had to start cooking at 7AM in the morning.....merry Christmas to me.  
After the copious meal (shrimp cocktail, asparagus-cream soup, turkey fillet with a syrup crust and mushrooms in the gravy, several vegetables, a potatoes and red onions ovendish, cooked pears with sherry, homemade applecompote and icecream dessert) I had to clean the kitchen and fill up the dishwasher while hubby and his parents took a long nap (can't really blame my husband for this, as he was very tired from having to unexpectedly work because of a last minute problem at the office the day before, and he also helped me prepare Christmas dinner nonetheless). In the mean time my kids needed to unload the built up energy in a few wild games, but surprisingly they behaved and it didn't end in a fight this time.
By the time I finished cleaning up my sister in law and her family arrived (5 persons in total), so then I was running around with coffee, tea, wine and 2 cheesecakes (which I made on Christmas Eve). They left again at about 6PM, but my parents in law just wouldn't budge, and my father in law then began one of his long boring monologues (and sometimes quite disturbing ideas) on World War II, while I was trying not to fall asleep pretending to listen, trying to give subtle hints to get them to leave. When they finally left at 7PM (my husband drove them home) I had to fill the dishwasher again and gave my kids some leftovers from dinner. At 7.30 I was fast asleep on the couch.....I probably snored. 

I didn't sit down all day except for dinner, and although I don't really like that (and I can't wait till my kids are old enough to help more) I still had a good time, because there was family who love me and appreciation for all my efforts to make it cozy.  
In the evening we watched 2 feelgood movies together ('27 Dresses' and 'Trading Places'), just the 5 of us with the curtains closed and the Christmas lights on, and that was nice.

Whereas my own family won't even bother to make plans for Christmas. I asked my mom (who lives only 5 miles away from me and has her own car) to come for dinner or brunch, but she found it "too much of a bother" and would rather stay alone at home, same as my brother (who lives 15 miles away and has no family of his own). Only to find out now that my mom went to my sister (who lives 4 hours travel by train and bus away, so that means 8 hours travel in 1 day!) to celebrate Christmas, without even blinking her eyes. I guess "too much of a bother" is a relative concept for my mom when it comes to her children.   


Bottomline: Christmas is about the people who want to celebrate it with you, and even if that means having to work hard in the kitchen and/or having to tolerate some family members being their usual obnoxious self (but only for more hours in a row than usual), then so be it.
In the end it's what you make of it for yourself, the people who matter to you and (in my case) your children, so they can have good Christmas memories to cherish later when they have a family of their own.

Hi everyone!   Hope you all had a good Christmas. My Christmas was pretty good. I got some new clothes, shoes, and lots of other stuff. My most favorite thing I got was tickets to see Criss Angel. I'm so excited!   

Kurt Hummel wrote:Hi everyone!   Hope you all had a good Christmas. My Christmas was pretty good. I got some new clothes, shoes, and lots of other stuff. My most favorite thing I got was tickets to see Criss Angel. I'm so excited!   

I have only seen him on television.

Hope you enjoy yourself.  

ColferInspired wrote:

Kurt Hummel wrote:Hi everyone!   Hope you all had a good Christmas. My Christmas was pretty good. I got some new clothes, shoes, and lots of other stuff. My most favorite thing I got was tickets to see Criss Angel. I'm so excited!   

I have only seen him on television.

Hope you enjoy yourself.  

Me too. I've seen both of his TV shows and I love his tricks.

Thanks! I'm going next week.

Kurt Hummel wrote:Hi everyone!   Hope you all had a good Christmas. My Christmas was pretty good. I got some new clothes, shoes, and lots of other stuff. My most favorite thing I got was tickets to see Criss Angel. I'm so excited!   

Merry belated christmas girl hope you had a good time with your family.

Criss Angel, I've seen only on TV and I think he's awesome. So I'm sure you'll have a great time.

brisallie wrote:

Kurt Hummel wrote:Hi everyone!   Hope you all had a good Christmas. My Christmas was pretty good. I got some new clothes, shoes, and lots of other stuff. My most favorite thing I got was tickets to see Criss Angel. I'm so excited!   

Merry belated christmas girl :)hope you had a good time with your family.

Criss Angel, I've seen only on TV and I think he's awesome. So I'm sure you'll have a great time.

Thank you! Merry belated Christmas to you too!   

I agree he is awesome. I also got two Criss Angel shirts for Christmas and I'm going to wear one when I see the show.

I didn't realize that Criss Angel was that well known in other countries (judging by ColferInspried and brisallie's posts). I just thought that he was only popular in the US.

Hope everyone had a great Christmas!

I'm back home, and while I'm happy about that, I'm also sad because I miss Nepal and the kids there. It was a really wonderful and meaningful trip and I learnt a lot. I didn't pack a camera because I wanted to travel light, but I took some pictures with my phone and I'll upload the good ones soon.

Now to catch up on everything I've missed.   

It's also really hot here compared to Nepal's winter...I can't bear the heat.

merry xmas Kurt Hummel and welcome back Ireth! really missed you!   

welcome back Ireth.

i hope you had a great and interesting time.

Thanks girls   

I did have a great time, our project was meaningful, we met some amazing people and kids, and the last few days were a vacation, so that allowed us to eat and shop a lot, plus we went paragliding!

I've uploaded some pics in the Pictures from a Distant Land thread. Be warned, I took them with my phone, but I think they turned out ok.

^ Glad to hear that you've come back safely from your Nepal trip, Ireth. A belated Merry Christmas to you too   

Now I'll just over to the travel photo thread to check out the sights in Nepal...

It will soon be a new year.

1hr 39 min to go here.

Hope everyone has a wonderful new year.

midnight is still 5 hours away in serbia, but for all those who have already stepped into 2014 and all of us who are still waiting

happy new year everyone! it's almost half a day to the magical moment but i will be out for the most of the day and just want to greet my friends here who will reach new year earlier than I do.

HAPPY 2014!!!!!!


see you all next year! xoxoxo!

Still over 3 hours to go here: I baked 100(!) oliebollen (see below) and I already burned my thumb on a piece of fireworks, so New Year's Eve is off to a good start.   



Have fun everyone, don't eat too much and I'll see you next year!

Happy 2014, everyone!   

I didn't watch the spectacular midnight firework display in the city, but I did manage to watch it live on TV...   

Have a great 2014, everyone!!!