{"id":25689,"date":"2017-12-27T17:55:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T17:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=25689"},"modified":"2017-12-27T17:55:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T17:55:01","slug":"christmas-with-the-coles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/12\/christmas-with-the-coles\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas with the Coles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite just being the three of us for Christmas it was still fairly hectic. Morgan\u00a0didn’t break up from school until 3:30pm on\u00a0Friday afternoon and Anna finished work at the same time. Morgan however had basket ball from 4-6pm after school so went straight there. Back at home I had the house cleaned and tidied and had got all of the Christmas snacks, sweets and cakes out ready for the festive season. The overindulgence was about to begin.<\/p>\n

I collected Morgan from basketball and at last Christmas with the Coles was underway.<\/p>\n

The weekend before Christmas<\/h2>\n

I’ve already posted about Saturday<\/a>. Rather than stay at home and eat all the sweets I headed off for an early morning bike ride on my Mountain Bike. Morgan and I then decorated the Christmas Cake which joined the other sweets, crisps and snacks. The dining room table was now struggling under the weight of calories it contained.<\/p>\n

Christmas Eve was a fairly relaxed affair at home. I pfaffed around with some bikes and swapped them around so that my road bike now lives on my turbo trainer and my old (1980’s steel framed Peugeot) bike that\u00a0was on the turbo has been retired for good. Morgan and I were going to do a plyometrics session on the beach but the weather was horrible so we didn’t fancy it. Instead we waited for a slight break in the rain and had a short family walk across to the beach.<\/p>\n

The Big Day<\/h2>\n

Christmas Day was upon us and it followed the now traditional pattern. Morgan was up at 6am and into bed with us to open the presents that Santa had left in his stocking. We then got up had coffee and croissants for breakfast and then settled down to open the presents under the tree. We weren’t under the tree of course, but the presents were. Christmas music was of course playing in the background.<\/p>\n

\"Gifts<\/a>

Gifts under the tree<\/p><\/div>\n

As usual there was plenty for everyone. The usual customary gifts, half-expected gifts, the unusual gifts, the funny gifts \u00a0and the pleasantly surprising gifts for everyone.<\/p>\n

Morgan’s main present was an XBox and he had games and subscriptions to go with it too. He also had a second main present of a winter wetsuit along with boots, gloves and a wetsuit hood – so there’s no excuses for him not to surf year round now! On top of that he had lots of fleecy bedding, an insulated jacket, some Lego, Nike clothes, some games, books and plenty of other things too including some cool RGB LED lights for around his bed! He even had a Super Dooper Reindeer Pooper!<\/p>\n\n\t\t