Christmas Eve Dinner

Mei-mei said that her wish for this Christmas was to have family celebrating it with us. She told her teacher that during Chapel. 

Tonight, her wish comes true. We have Chek Kong, Chim Poh and Kor Poh with us to celebrate. For this year's celebration, we opted to have take-away for all the food: Beef Wellington Au Jus from Rasa Sayang Hotel, Roast Duck from G Hotel and steaks and pork Tomahawk from The Barn. Luckily the places were along the way. 

We left the house with instructions to Ko-ko to heat up the oven and place the potatoes and pumpkin to cook (he did a good job). 

Pumpkin all ready for the oven

Daddy and I headed off to the Rasa Sayang which was our first stop. We had to wait a while as we had arrived a little earlier than the pickup time. Then we headed to G Hotel/Gurney Plaza. Daddy waited for the duck while I headed to The Barn to pick up our order. And off we headed home. We arrived before 6p.m. and our roasted veggies are all ready. 

Message on our bag from The Barn

Daddy had a quick shower while the rest of us started to slowly unpack and plate our dinner.

Here is our Beef Wellington

Our whole dinner spread

The Roast Duck (before daddy flipped the duck over *laugh*)

Of course, dinner is not complete without sparkling

We also had this amazing Christmas pudding

Then we all just sat around to chit chat and had a good laugh. Mei-mei started asking when presents time would be. So at the promised time of 10p.m., she became "Santarina" and distributed out the presents to everyone.

Posing with the tree before passing out the presents

Everyone with their presents

Opening presents

Ko-ko with his present from Chim Poh

Ah Ma and Ah Kong's dreamcatcher which was handmade by Mei-mei

Chek Kong immediately tried on his present

Mei-mei's reaction to a bell for her Christmas present

Yup, we tricked her by wrapping up the bell and telling her it was a present for her bicycle since she didn't have a bell. She recovered from her disappointment quickly and smiled and said "Thank you" to me before opening the other presents. Then later daddy gave her another surprise:

A bicycle

Ko-ko and his present from us

This was the handmade butterfly from Mei-mei

My handmade present, card and wrapper from Mei-mei

Happiness with the Barbie doll from Ko-ko

It was a lovely celebration. We had lots of fun and laughter with everyone this Christmas despite the high Covid cases. Celebrating at home with our family is what matters most.