We\u2019re planning for Christmas. Oh I know what you\u2019re thinking. You think we mean next year and yes Mum is thinking about that. She\u2019s thinking we need to plan for Dad being safely at home here with us long before the actual day so it doesn\u2019t all go wrong again. What I actually mean though was that we are busily planning for this Christmas. Mum and Dad are going to have a delayed Christmas once he is home and safely out of quarantine. When he comes home on Friday he will go into quarantine for Mum\u2019s protection, although I think she\u2019s hoping they can have New Year outside so they at least celebrate together. Then he will have to wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Please don\u2019t tell me it\u2019s bad luck to keep our decorations up. They will stay up until we\u2019ve had our family Christmas on Sunday 9th<\/sup> January. Mum is cooking Christmas dinner and they will be opening their presents together. So what that it won\u2019t be 25th<\/sup> December. It\u2019s not as though that was Jesus\u2019s actual birthday in the first place. It\u2019s just a convenient date that suited pagans and Christians alike. Well, the 9th<\/sup> of January suits us this year. There will be crackers and party hats and dogs causing mayhem. All the usual activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The biggest problem is going to be resisting temptation and not eating the chocolate mints before that. Not us, obviously. We don\u2019t eat chocolate mints ever. I\u2019m not sure if the reason there are two bags of chocolate mints is because Mum knows she has very little willpower when it comes to resisting things like that. I do hope there are some left for Dad by the time he can get to them. It would be very sad if there weren\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wilma is planning for Christmas, but it may not be exactly what you’d imagine. It’s only a date afterall.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-25267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas","tag-christmas","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Resisting temptation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n