Christmas Recap
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Christmas in bullet points:

- My sister, T., is now called George, because her ear was hurting so much she threatened to cut it off. I told her she would then be George Weasley and that it really would be a "holey night".
- Overheard from a phone conversation, I didn't realise that my sister has five generations alive in her family right now. Her birth-grandmother has a mother still alive, although she's in a nursing home now. And my sister has her baby... So Magpie has a great-great grandmother still alive. Wow.
- You know you have a baby in the house when you find chewed up pink paper in your shoes.
- Funniest conversation over Christmas:
Omi: Where are you going?
Magpie: Ba! *crawls to mum*
Omi: She's crawling to Ba.
George: No. It's Mum.
Magpie: Ba.
George: What do you mean, "Ba"? Mum!
Magpie: Ba!
"Ba," is normally what Magpie says when she doesn't like something (eg, she bit into one of my books and remarked that it tasted "ba"), so Omi and I were killing ourselves with laughter when every answer Magpie gave to her mother was "ba."
- I tried to feed Magpie lunch and ended up finding mashed potato in my hair hours later.
- I found a $50 note in one of my jacket pockets. I'm not sure how I forgot I had $50 in there, because now I distinctly remember shoving it in there in a hurry, but somehow I completely forgot about it. Nice Christmas present though.
- Was good having sister's fiancé come over too. Busiest our house has been at Christmas in a very long time. 'T was very nice.
- Funniest quote over Christmas:
When George kicked the kings, the sheep got knocked out too and fell off the roof.
For this to make sense you need to know about our Nativity. Guess who was playing with it so that the sheep ended up on the roof again?
- I got Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans. I got a Black Pepper one! Had to cough till my eyes watered! My brother and sister both volunteered to try the vomit flavoured ones and ended up spitting them out and wailing in disgust.
- Other sister: I can't believe all three of you tried those beans. Not just one, but all three of you! Idiots!
It's called sharing the pain. :)
- We had a good discussion about taste-testers though. How would they have tested Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans? Nah, doesn't taste enough like vomit. Needs to be more vomitty. Try again and I'll let you know how it tastes. And, How do they know what an earth worm tastes like anyway? 'Honey, is that a worm you're eating?' 'It's for research! I swear.'
- The grass-flavoured bean didn't taste like anything much, but then, I can verify from experience that grass doesn't taste like much either so maybe that was intentional. And the sausage-flavoured one wasn't like a good German sausage flavour; more like a cheap low-quality one that's been overdone on a barbecue. Impressively realistic though.
- I also got three books, two DVDs, and the board game "Village". I played it twice over six hours the next day. Very satisfying. I'll put up a proper review later.
- Everyone loved all their presents. I don't think that's happened in a long time either, but clearly a lot of thought went into all of them this year.

- My sister, T., is now called George, because her ear was hurting so much she threatened to cut it off. I told her she would then be George Weasley and that it really would be a "holey night".
- Overheard from a phone conversation, I didn't realise that my sister has five generations alive in her family right now. Her birth-grandmother has a mother still alive, although she's in a nursing home now. And my sister has her baby... So Magpie has a great-great grandmother still alive. Wow.
- You know you have a baby in the house when you find chewed up pink paper in your shoes.
- Funniest conversation over Christmas:
Omi: Where are you going?
Magpie: Ba! *crawls to mum*
Omi: She's crawling to Ba.
George: No. It's Mum.
Magpie: Ba.
George: What do you mean, "Ba"? Mum!
Magpie: Ba!
"Ba," is normally what Magpie says when she doesn't like something (eg, she bit into one of my books and remarked that it tasted "ba"), so Omi and I were killing ourselves with laughter when every answer Magpie gave to her mother was "ba."
- I tried to feed Magpie lunch and ended up finding mashed potato in my hair hours later.
- I found a $50 note in one of my jacket pockets. I'm not sure how I forgot I had $50 in there, because now I distinctly remember shoving it in there in a hurry, but somehow I completely forgot about it. Nice Christmas present though.
- Was good having sister's fiancé come over too. Busiest our house has been at Christmas in a very long time. 'T was very nice.
- Funniest quote over Christmas:
When George kicked the kings, the sheep got knocked out too and fell off the roof.
For this to make sense you need to know about our Nativity. Guess who was playing with it so that the sheep ended up on the roof again?
- I got Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans. I got a Black Pepper one! Had to cough till my eyes watered! My brother and sister both volunteered to try the vomit flavoured ones and ended up spitting them out and wailing in disgust.
- Other sister: I can't believe all three of you tried those beans. Not just one, but all three of you! Idiots!
It's called sharing the pain. :)
- We had a good discussion about taste-testers though. How would they have tested Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans? Nah, doesn't taste enough like vomit. Needs to be more vomitty. Try again and I'll let you know how it tastes. And, How do they know what an earth worm tastes like anyway? 'Honey, is that a worm you're eating?' 'It's for research! I swear.'
- The grass-flavoured bean didn't taste like anything much, but then, I can verify from experience that grass doesn't taste like much either so maybe that was intentional. And the sausage-flavoured one wasn't like a good German sausage flavour; more like a cheap low-quality one that's been overdone on a barbecue. Impressively realistic though.
- I also got three books, two DVDs, and the board game "Village". I played it twice over six hours the next day. Very satisfying. I'll put up a proper review later.
- Everyone loved all their presents. I don't think that's happened in a long time either, but clearly a lot of thought went into all of them this year.