Christmas in the Southern Hemisphere
I am finally getting around to doing a post on our Christmas celebrations.
On Christmas Eve we attended a German style Christmas Eve party at the home of my husband's cousin (whose wife is from a German family). My kids were a bit envious that these kids get visited by both German Father Christmas and Aussie Santa. It was a great (boozy) night and meant that we all, apart from my son, slept in late on Christmas Day.
The table at the German Christmas Eve party.
A chocolate house.
My son actually crept up early and snuck all his presents into his room to open in bed. This is why I wasn't able to get a shot of both the kids presents in front of the tree! I used recyclable Christmas shopping bags instead of stockings or pillow cases this year. The kids didn't get very much as their main gift was the plane ticket over to the island. They seemed very happy with everything though. My son's favourite gift was a $3 torch (flashlight) and my daughter's a little dog charm for her charm bracelet. My nephew and nieces also seemed happy with the shopping I had done for them (mostly clothes and books including most of what they got from Santa).
We celebrated (Australian) Christmas with my husband's extended family at a hotel with a pool. It was really nice and very low stress for everyone (especially those who would normally have been cooking and cleaning up). In addition to the pool there was also a lawn with games like bocce and quoits. Lunch was a buffet and the kids all particularly enjoyed the range of desserts on offer (including pavlova and chocolate mousse).
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oh the choco house looks soooo delicious!!
What a great day and a lovely idea. No stress or work for anyone. We did a similiar thing one year with both sides of the family and it was a success except for Capt Tidy's dad who was peturbed bu the idea of sorbet. He is a meat and three vegies guy and sorbet unsettled him. lol .funny man.
This Christmas was very sad because Mum passed away on the 19th December. But we were surrounded by lots of family( including Cat and her crew who have become family) and we were feeling the love.
What a wonderful Christmas you had. That is cute that your son brought all his gifts into bed. :)
Good idea. It will be hard for quite a while yet. I still wish I had my dad around to talk to about certain things and he has been gone about 7 years now. Can't imagine losing my mother too as we tend to talk on the phone at least once a day. All the best with things.