Pfff…. well, we have half an hour to spare, but the house is ready for our 2nd Day Of Christmas Buffet. 
It was a bit of a bitch to vaccuum everything again (didn’t I do this just Wednesday? and we haven’t been home at ALL in the past few days!) and the toilet and bathroom are all cleaned up, laundry out of the way… I did my best. Meanwhile Olli’s been preparing our share of the buffet, and now Olli’s upstairs changing into something else than a t-shirt and his jogging trousers, and I am freshly showered and dressed… we’re ready!
We had two family days in the past few days passed. On Christmas Eve we went to Olli’s parent, where we met the new girlfriend of Olli’s brother and had a good meal, and yesterday we hung out at my dad’s for a while, before we went to my mom for Christmas dinner. I had a good time there as well. Gitty and I were all chummy yesterday, we had a blast together. It’s just fun to find all these things that you do have in common, despite the fact that you’re so wildly different. Or when we were looking through mom’s old pictures and found how strikingly Yoni ressembles my father when he was her age. It was just fun family time, and it’s been ages since I genuinely had such a good family time. While it’s something that’s usually something that’s supposed to be this way and it feels forced, I just had a good time and that’s something I should be thankful for. I’ve been a bad big sister – maybe it’s time to make up for some of it.
And now we’re all ready for the party for tonight. First family, now friends.
Good times, good times.