Wednesday's Words on a Friday

 The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.

The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.

If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.

This month the words/prompts are supplied by Wisewebwoman and can be found here.

This week's words/prompts are: 

1.larch  2.trifle  3.multiple  4.poteen

and/or:

1.surprise  2.quiche  3.flag  4.crossword

Here is my story:

I’ve put this off until the last minute so here goes:

Christmas Day at the twins house was as hectic as expected, with the girls high on excitement and I arrived earlier than “no-one” who was coming on a later bus.

Multiple hugs and kisses were given and received and a surprise for me was a Christmas Stocking with an “N” on it, for Nanny of course.

A few times during the lead up I planned to make a Crab Quiche to take along for sharing, it's lovely eaten cold,but didn’t get around to it, mostly because canned crabmeat doesn’t seem to be available anymore, and the real thing, fresh crabmeat, is way beyond what little budget I had left.

Food was plentiful anyway, with every inch of the table covered in platters with umbrella style net covers to keep the flies off. “No-one” arrived to more excitement from the girls, and a dessert trifle was whisked into the fridge to keep cold, but not the traditional trifle, no: this was something new** with a layer of broken up lemon tart mixed into whipped cream along with broken up meringue pieces, then a layer of something with frozen raspberries and blueberries mixed in and topped with whipped cream and sliced strawberries. It was so delicious!

About an hour after we had eaten, my energy began to flag and “no-one” also had to get home so we reminded the girls that we really did have to go and there were tears and a little meltdown, I really wish I could live closer to see them more often and maybe have them visit me. My current home is far too tiny to contain their energy and there is no yard for them to play in.

When I eventually packed up my things with the girls helping, I could feel my eyes wanting to close and knew I would have to leave my daily crossword for another day.

** I don't recall the exact recipe but will get it from "no-one" sometime soon.