Joyeux Noel

We woke up late on Christmas day as we had spent the previous night with some friends celebrating and catching up on each others respective lives, we saw no need to wake up early
because we had already gone to Church on Christmas Eve.

I enjoyed the company of my family as it was a holiday and my hubby cooked lunch for me and it was a welcome sight to actually see him trying to avoid being hit by bubbling oil from the pan, he looked silly at best but as he was determined to eat, he braved the occasional hazards of cooking.

We did not have any gifts for each other this Christmas as we opted to prioritize some of the stuff that we needed for the apartment and the coming of our second child. My husband did get his wish of getting a game console (Many thanks to his co workers) and my son got a couple of things including a bicycle.

Early evening we decided to go out and watch a movie (National Treasure: Book of Secrets), all in all it was an amazing film, with enough information that piqued the interest of the viewer and some moderately good piece of action to whet the appetite. My son did not like the film while my husband was 50/50 as he said "It sort of resembles an Indiana Jones movie/ mystery novel".

Since we are on the topic of history, did you know that contrary to popular belief, Christ may not have been born on December 25 because if it was that time of month, the bible narrative of shepherds tending their sheep would be incorrect as at that time it would have been too cold, also Dec. 25 coincided with the annual festival of the sun in the Roman religion before it Rome adopted Christianity as its official religion. Constantine the great adopted most of the pagan religions and placed Christian religious observance on the same dates. (According to my hubby)

So that is how we spent our Christmas day, it was a time well spent with family.