Not very much has changed since last year but there are a few new additions. Be sure to drop by the nester and check out her home and some of the others – lots of wonderful inspiration. Hope you enjoy my slide show. Music is A Christmas to Remember by Amy Grant.
One of our new traditiosn – we only started it last year – is taking the girls to have Santa photos and then going out for breakfast – something we never normally do, except maybe on holidays.
First stop was meeting the big guy. We went to Myer this year (the line already too long in DJs) and he was great. Spent lots of time with the girls, even though a line was forming behind us.
Then the girls got to select an ornament each (and I bought a new wreath for our front door – rats had eaten much of the current one). We then had breakfast out at a cafe. It was nearly 11am by now so I was glad to be eating breakfast :-).
On our way back to the car we walked by the lolly department and everyone chose something – okay I chose more than one thing :-). I had to laugh when I saw Kevin sitting down right in front of the chocolate display – why they have a seat there I don’t know – unless it takes people a long time to make their selections.
One last stop – the big Christmas shop to get some new lights for our tree (I accidently vacuumed the cord up last week and it was wrecked during extraction).
We loved these reindeers but at $290 a go we decided to leave them in the shop. The kids couldn’t understand why….
Thanks so much for the wonderful comments on my last post. I already have a lot of family holiday traditions and think maybe I’m just putting unrealistic expectations on how I should be feeling – thinking I should be excited, whereas it’s probably fine to just be looking forward to the season. It’s very relaxed for us this year with not a lot going, which is a big change from previous years. So I’m just going to go with the flow and enjoy the time with family and friends, not keep on trying to find my Christmas spirit.
And what better a way to start than with a Christmas giveaway for Eric Dodges A Christmas Wish CD. It’s a lovely CD which I’m listening to right now.
I’ll do the draw on Friday. Please leave a comment – If you’d like you can share your favourite thing about Christmas. Everyone can enter the draw. Good luck!
Those of you who are my friends on Twitter and Facebook will know that I’m really struggling to find my Christmas Spirit this year. I was really hoping after returning home rested and relaxed from our cruise that I would find the magic. But alas it’s not to be. I had thought maybe it was because I was having trouble with gift buying this year but I’ve conquered that and still haven’t found the magic. In all honestly I could easily just skip it this year. I’m not sure if it’s because my thoughts about simple living at are odds with the season or something else is going on. The girls have started their advent calender and I’m trying to get excited but it’s just not happening. It’s lucky I “partly” decorated when I did, cause the rest of the decoartions are staying in their boxes this year. If things don’t change soon I’m going to have a do a big evaluation of how we handle the season for next year. We aren’t religious at all but maybe we could focus on giving or helping others instead of ourselves.
Anyway, if anyone has any (non-Christian) ideas on how I can find my Christmas spirit please me know.