Christmas Eve

It’s officially the Christmas period here in the UK now. Today I’m planning on baking with a friend, tomorrow I head to my parents for The Day. It should be a nice, quiet, chill couple of days. My mum and I plan on knitting ornaments for a Christmas Day activity as last year we knitted a wreath and it made for a lovely day. It’s nice to have something to do other than food and presents. It feels like being a kid again, who got to play with presents on Christmas afternoon. (My spellcheck is insisting I capitalise christmas, and that makes me want to refuse!) I’ve found that adult christmasses lack that aspect that childhood christmasses had – most of the presents aren’t something you can interact with that day.

This is much better christmas than last year. I live in my own flat, rather than on a ward, and that means I have a lot more autonomy. I’ve proved I can handle working, which is a big step this year. I’ve made new friends, and made stronger connections with old friends. I’ve been able to enjoy an advent, rather than just christmas day itself. It’s lovely. I realised a couple of weeks ago, this is my first normal christmas since 2019, and it’s really rather special.

Merry Christmas to everyone who checks in here! And for any PDAers, far be it from me to order that you must have a merry christmas, have any kind of day you like at all tomorrow.