Where have I been, well I've been around, I've just been busy.
Christmas was just the other day and it was my first Christmas not being home in Massachusetts. This year, due to financial issues, I spent Christmas in London. Before Tom left for home he and I had Christmas at the flat. We made dinner and opened presents while listening to Michael Buble sing to us. Tom really spoiled me which gifts but the piece de resistance was when I opened a book on Paris style and inside was a EuroStar voucher for me to go to Paris. He knows I have been trying to go to Paris for over a year now but haven't been able to afford it and now he had made it possible! What an amazing flatmate!!!
For actual Christmas, my old NYC roommate, Caroline, came over on Christmas Eve and we spent the night eating, chatting and practically falling asleep on the sofa at 9:30pm...we're so rock and roll!
On Christmas day, we woke up, had a small breakfast and opened presents over coffee. Caroline was very generous giving me a bunch of bits and bobs but one was my favourite lip balm ever...Fresh Sugar. At 11am we headed to a friends place in Chelsea for pre-lunch drinks and for lunch we had a very British Christmas meal with goose, roasted veggies and stuffing with Christmas cake and brandy butter for pudding. After sufficiently stuffing ourselves we walked back to Battersea and called home to speak to our families. We then spent the rest of the night curled up under blankets on the sofa watching Harry Potter.
Yesterday, Boxing Day, Caroline made a delicious french toast breakfast and we sat around in our pajamas for a while. We decided to take a short walk in the park before she headed back to her flat and I spend the rest of the day just doing some housework and trying to finish the scarf I am knitting for Tom.
It was a very nontraditional Christmas this year, but it was nice. Of course I missed being home and getting woken up super early by my nephews who are beside themselves with the excitement of Santa having come. And I did miss the full Christmas dinner that we always have, but all in all it was a lovely Christmas and I'm happy to have spent it with friends.
On Thursday morning I am off for a few days as I am going to Cornwall for New Year with friends. We rented a cottage and I am really looking forward to a fun filled 4 days away.
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and on that I will leave you with a photo of our tree. Her name is Sandra Sharon (don't ask about the 2 names) and she is beautiful!
