It's beginning to feel a lot like

Christmas Eve!
All the ingredients are there. Fire in the chimney, lights in the Christmas tree. The Crown on Netflix. A glass of mulled wine in hand (me, not the kids).

And the big advantage this year is that there was no need to wait until very very late for them to be asleep to wrap the presents and put them under the tree.

I was in bed by 11.15pm.