Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Christmas anecdotes Part I

A pinch and a punch for the first day of the month!

Aimee is in seventh heaven. Today, she gets to put up the Christmas tree.

Already, she has most of her pressies wrapped up (theme appears to be purple or shades thereof) and silver. Soooo many and each one individually picked by her for that particular little person or one of her BFFs.

Aimee is great at picking purrfect presents, organising, decorating, baking her should-be-famous fruit cakes, cooking, celebrating ...... we (read Stu and I) will have to do the cleaning up once another Christmas bites the dust.

I love Christmas but it is rather nice not having to worry about what to get so-and-so. I also love the preparations - making the pickle, pineapple tarts and on Christmas Eve slaving over a hot stove in the kitchen for all the festive favourites that we would dig into after Midnight Mass.

But those were the days.

Today, Allan is in Dubai and will be spending Christmas and New Year in Singapore and Malaysia, Niv is in Bangkok and Aimee and I are in Perth. A scattered bunch but love keeps us together.

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