Spread your wings and fly away

Honestly it really hasn't been all day!!

Cast your mind back a couple of days.

Yes that's right, cast it back to Christmas day.

Excitment reigned in Faffajane's house as the youngest child rudely woke up his parents to shw them what Santa had left on the end of his bed. Hubby, of course, wanted to open his Christmas present, and not the one Santa left by the bed of course, but the present wouldn't allow him as she knew there was a turkey waiting dying to be cooked in the oven, and vegetables to be prepared if we were going to have any hope of having any dinner at all!

Convincing youngest child that it was a good idea to get washed and dressed, convincing eldest child that getting out of bed was a must and making sure octopus hands was no where in reach, the young (ok who am I kidding) intrepid explorer traipses down the stairs to heat up the oven and put turkey uncomplainingly into the oven to cook before making her way back up the stairs and claiming the bathroom as her own in which to beautify herself and hide the dark circles under eyes due to lack of sleep as she had to make sure the dogs did not break down the living room door, and go a hunting for their presents!

Once everyone had congregated downstairs, much oohing and ahhing was heard as one by one presents were handed out, the wrapping paper ripped opened and excited exclamations were heard as they found the item they had longed for all year ( I have writers rights to embellishing this story!).

None of this was as good as the one that was heard as they opened the family present that Santa had left though. Oh no. The excited squeal that was heard as that large present was opened, the sheer delight uttered as discovered within that colourfully wrapped parcel was the one thing they had waited for all year - a nintendo Wii.

While an aged P looked on in the form of MIL, we all tried out our new present, complete with a Wii fit that Santa had kindly remembered to bring with it. We set up our individual Miis taking time deciding what they should look like then challenged one another to a game of bowling. Next would come golf, striking a 'swing your arms in the air like you don't care' kind of pose. Trying out the Wii fit lead to hysterical laughter as you stood in various poses, pretended to jog, ski, or do the ski slalom. Hula hooping was fun, though losing one's balance was not so much fun as you try to catch a hoop and still wriggle your hips (course octopus hands liked that one!).

Discovering one hasn't got a lot of balance held no surprises, though being told you are a lot older fitness wise than your actual age isn't much fun, I think I sulked a little there though, who am I kidding, that wasn't that much of a surprise really, considering, as I tried to get out of bed this morning with a bad back, I did feel like I was 65!

The best bit is playing together. We have so many consoles all with games for one player. With this it makes it much more exciting, so many games for the family to play.

The only one I am disappointed with so far is the Brain Training academy, I am hoping as I get better at it, it will give me more tasks to complete because at the moment it is so boring!

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In other Christmas news, I got quite a few nice presents - a jewellery box from my friend, perfume - from hubby, castlevania game for PS2 from my eldest, A necklace and earring set, some pyjamas, three books, two DVD box sets, Duffy CD, Kaiser Chiefs CD, an organiser for the car, a beatrix potter figurine, and a router, which I have to work out how to connect. At the moment my broadband box is via USB hub and the router is Ethernet - I only hope it is easy to set up the broadband on the ethernet so I can work out how to set up the router!

Oh and yes, before you ask, we did beat our record of 34 DVDs for Christmas - we got a total of 37!

It has been great fun this Christmas! Now it only I can work out how to get out of this chair so I can take my tablets lol

Hugs to you all!