I have been trying to catch up on reading other blogs that I enjoy (Faith and Lill, and one of Faith's church leader ones). I feel like I've been gone for months because there is so much to catch up on. I keep going back because I think I've missed posts. I know it's partly because of the cold and being overtired from my many late nights with family.
I realise that everyone has such busy lives. This is the busy season. Christmas around the corner. For me, I have yet to organise Caleb's birthday party and haven't started Christmas shopping yet. But I love Christmas because I love buying pressies for my huge family.
This year we are trying something new - they call it Kris Kringle...where you put everyone's names in a hat and pick one. So you buy a great present for one person instead of lots of little pressies for everyone. We tried this a few years back, but we ended up buying other presents for everyone so it didn't work.
My Christmas starts on Christmas Eve. We get together as a family...in my case that's my brothers, sister-in-law, 5 nieces and nephews, cousin and her husband, plus 4 adult children and their partners, plus my two men, and my Mum. We have a bbq together and hang out most of the afternoon till Christmas arrives at midnight. We normally have a little thanksgiving service just before Midnight then when it arrives we pop party poppers and give out pressies.
Have a few treats and then we start departing....about 3amish. Yip, we are a family of night owls. And we train our kids from an early age :-). Actually some of the younger ones have a nap and wake up when the service happens.
Then we all sleep in Christmas morning...but some of us are too excited and still get up early. We have a family lunch and my brother-in-law normally joins us Christmas day.
Right now Myles and I are trying to decide what kind of tree we're going to get. We normally get a christmas tree in a pot with the aim of taking care of it and using it every year...so far I've killed 3 trees...I think...i leave it full of decorations for too long so they start life water deprived....and no matter how much i water them it's too late :-(
So not wanting to kill any more beautiful trees, I'm thinking of a plastic tree...but i hate plastic trees...so have to go tree hunting for an alternative until Caleb is older and we can go try a real tree again....maybe with age I will have learnt the error of my ways and will actually remember to look after the tree past Christmas Day!
2 comments:
HI Tali: have fun selecting a tree! We always had real growing up. Got married and our first 3 years was in a tiny apt so we got a fake tree. And boy did it look fake!! When we built our house I insisted on a real tree for my daughter. Now that we have 2 kids, and have done the real tree thing for 13 years now, we prayed and decided to buy an artificial prelit one this year...it looks real, they have greatly improved over the years and there are no messy pine needles for me to vacuum up....plus....with our busy schedules it just made sense...now we will have it until it falls apart..warrenteed for 5 years so.....
hi Tali.....yes I am not allowed to buy any plants or trees or anything like that :O) I kill all plants---my Dad bought me a cactus once, I did everything he told me to do and within a week it was dead!!! lol I am so glad to see you back blogging---I miss you!!!
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