DVT DAY 291
Christmas eve and I am up early for a shower. I try one of my new breakfast smoothies, which turns out to be rather nice, however mid way through it my youngest daughter and partner arrive. Yippeeee. We get them in the drive and I go out and pull our car up behind them, a sort of hoping no one notices maneuver. Whilst waiting for the windscreen to deice a van pulls up and a guy walks down our drive with a large square package. I am intrigued as I am not aware of us expecting anything. I have a sudden thought that this may be the rug I never expected to arrive. So once I’ve moved the car I get back inside picking the package up on the way. We sit and have coffee and a chat around the table to catch up. After a while my inquisitiveness gets the better of me and I open the parcel. I am surprised it is in fact the rug I believed I would never see, for which we had already found a replacement. I unfold it in the kitchen space and the whole family view it and decide we like it. We decide to give it a go in the dining area. Once down the consensus is that that the colours match the overall environment well. We decide to give it a go.
So with the excitement of the new rug behind us we settle into lazing, baking and resting. My intention is to continue in the same vein for the rest of the day until it becomes Santa time, when the present hoards will magically appear beneath the tree and await for us to awake on Christmas morning.
I think of all my family and friends and wonder how they are, some are having a bad time either being in hospital or recovering from a hospital stay, others are battling illness in themselves or their partners. One friend is embattled with a company who have failed to deliver a bed for her aged mother in time for Christmas. Other friends have had their Christmas plans wrecked by COVID. Others are making the best of what they can and those with children are doing their upmost to make this Christmas as happy as it can be and as lively and fun as a fesnying . All in all despite everything I am fortunate to have my family fit and healthy and where possible with me on Christmas day. I look forward to playing dice, games and doing the traditional festive jigsaw. Bring on the Magic.
