You ditched your uncle?
I’ll fucking put you in the ditch.
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Sure at least that’ll be company for the uncle in there 
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Hope everybody had a good day
Except @iron_mike for the way he treated his father/uncle/second cousin who got him tickets for all the matches
Ah fuckit, merry Christmas @iron_mike 
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And gave him a box of Ferrero Roche for Christmas
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Nollaig Shona daoibh go léir. Absolutely bollixed, the emotional rollercoaster of the three year old’s first proper Christmas nearly done for me.
Both childer packed off to bed now and enjoying a few delightfully hoppy IPAs with Home Alone 2 on the telly… I could watch Pesci and Stern bungle their way through the house of horrors over and over.
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The post dinner Christmas Day map is a phenomenal tradition.
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Uncharted territory
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The non national immigrant cage drivers hated by @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy do make getting a cab on Christmas Day a doddle.
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Foremanned the shit out of the Turkey, ham, stuffing and cheese sandwich. Unreal.
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Nearly all over thanks be to God. A great day, but a long day. Cannot wait to make mince meat of myself and all my hard work running and in the gym pigging out on the couch the next few days.
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I’m going to have one now myself
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I’d love one but i cant get off the couch
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It scares me what this day will be like when the kids get older. I’m a wreck here after an early start with the kids for the morning, all the in laws then until early afternoon and then building Lego, train sets, toot toot fire stations and multiple games of FC24 for the evening. I wouldn’t change a minute of it. The magic in their eyes is something you can’t even explain.
And they’ll never know I’ve an uncle lying in a funeral home in Fairview awaiting a mass and burial slot. His poor family only wishing he died a day earlier so they could have it all done before Christmas Eve. The 2nd of my Mams brothers who have died over Christmas. She has the brave face on but you can see the hurt, like a cloud over her head.
And yet, she puts the bravest of faces on for the children and grandchildren because it’s Christmas, and it’s not right to be sad at Christmas in her eyes. You can only admire it. Traditions disappear and it becomes a simple exercise to just keep the kids happy. If the kids are happy then everything is easier. And so that will continue for as long as it can. Keep it about them and everything else takes care of itself.
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Ah jaysus sorry for your loss mate.
Only got to do the daily wordle a few minutes ago. One year old didn’t go near the Christmas tree since it was put up two weeks ago. Got his presents and then decided to clear the tree. Little fucker kept us busy. He nearly got the turkey on the floor too. Just got to him in time as he kicked and screamed with a fistful of turkey skin.
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Sorry for your loss. We lose our old traditions but we make new ones. As it should be. Sounds like a grand day all things beside.
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