Its been decided by us both to go to Helen's parents for Christmas dinner , we will get a turkey crown and do another Christmas dinner on boxing day with sweet potatoes and honey roasted parsnips washed down with my favorite pear cider , as always we are skint its been another hard year with lots of ups and downs and various peaks and troughs , hopefully in 2012 things will level out and improve.

Its been hard to save for this Christmas i would have loved a kindle and a i pod classic two important features in my life reading and music its not going to happen ,for Helen i wanted to get her a Buddha water feature and a reiki bed its not likely to happen.

That doesn't mean we wont have a great Christmas we will have a great time together although i will miss my children Christmas is not the same and Helen will miss her children , we have both had great Christmases in the past and hopefully will have a few more great ones yet , Christmas costs we all want to give nice presents to our loved ones its not always possible we both know if we had more money there would be loads of gifts under the Christmas tree and why not , ever one we know never seem to struggle like we do have holidays go out and have money for the sales we never do for the last four years we have been on a tight budget.
But we CAN NEVER forget we left everything to be together and started again with nothing , we have between us created a home and house we are proud of.

We have done alterations and modernised the house which we never thought we would work which is still on going , our first Christmas together we was in the apartment near to town and we didn't have a Christmas tree we moved in a few days before Xmas and didn't have the time , now we have two trees and numerous lights round the house both inside and out have two light up reindeer's out on the patio maybe we have more than we realise.