I understand that other peoples families are never as interesting to watch as one's own, so this video is really for the grandparents, though anyone else may feel free to watch if so inclined.
We've really tried to simplify Christmas this year and I think we did pretty well. Two "big" gifts to share between them: I found an old wardrobe in a charity shop for only £15 and repainted it to fill up with other charity shop/ebay costume finds (I'd been on the hunt since October.) The doll play sets were found as a lot on gumtree! We pooled our funds with the grandparents and made these presents from all of us. The children could not have been more pleased with the result.
Our Christmas day was spent mainly in our jammies, with the exception of the children, who were costume chameleons-changing every ten minutes throughout the whole day.
We had the missionaries over for brunch and a game of Scotland Edition Monopoly. And in the evening enjoyed a family Christmas feast complete with paper crowns and crackers.
Jon calls this collage "Blended Traditions." You take a classic British dinner of yorkshire pudding, beef and mash then smother it in left over Christmas Eve queso- lots of queso.
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