Showing posts with label reminisce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reminisce. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
day twenty-four
Ahhh, the Christmas Eve manic panic. A stack of cooking required by me this year. On Christmas Eve I turned out: sugar cookies (well cooked them on the 23rd and iced them on the 24th), tomato and basil pasta salad and mini chocolate meringue tarts. YUM to all of the above.
This year besides the usual inside present division Santa decided to get the kids a trampoline so there was much banging and crashing and cursing as the thing was put together. THANKFULLY he had enlisted the help of an extra pair of hands with tools in the shape of Grandpa John, but even still it was a late night.
For some reason I didn't take any photos of the food for Santa and the reindeer this year as I usually do, I think I was just in such a rush to get the kids to bed. But Santa was left a glass of milk, some peppermint chocolate and a handful of grapes. Interesting combo. And Luna really really liked the milk. Due to supplies of carrots etc being low in our fridge the reindeer this year had to settle for oats and hand-picked grass (weeds lol) and we weren't sure if they liked to eat flowers or not so we put one of those in too.
After the kids went to bed Matt and I watched A Very Specky Christmas this year. Normally I insist on the Carols. Family tradition and all that. I have very strong and wonderful memories of watching the Carols in NSW with my cousins and thinking it was just the bees knees. It's taken me a long 20 years or so to realise they are actually very very boring. So this year we boycotted. Well, they went back on after Spicks and Specks but didn't pay much attention to it.
Made sure I also watched the Santa tracker online eagerly, and as soon as Santa hit Townsville around 12:30 or so, knew it was time to get into bed quick smart, lest the fat man decides to skip us......
Merry Christmas xox
This year besides the usual inside present division Santa decided to get the kids a trampoline so there was much banging and crashing and cursing as the thing was put together. THANKFULLY he had enlisted the help of an extra pair of hands with tools in the shape of Grandpa John, but even still it was a late night.
For some reason I didn't take any photos of the food for Santa and the reindeer this year as I usually do, I think I was just in such a rush to get the kids to bed. But Santa was left a glass of milk, some peppermint chocolate and a handful of grapes. Interesting combo. And Luna really really liked the milk. Due to supplies of carrots etc being low in our fridge the reindeer this year had to settle for oats and hand-picked grass (weeds lol) and we weren't sure if they liked to eat flowers or not so we put one of those in too.
After the kids went to bed Matt and I watched A Very Specky Christmas this year. Normally I insist on the Carols. Family tradition and all that. I have very strong and wonderful memories of watching the Carols in NSW with my cousins and thinking it was just the bees knees. It's taken me a long 20 years or so to realise they are actually very very boring. So this year we boycotted. Well, they went back on after Spicks and Specks but didn't pay much attention to it.
Made sure I also watched the Santa tracker online eagerly, and as soon as Santa hit Townsville around 12:30 or so, knew it was time to get into bed quick smart, lest the fat man decides to skip us......
Merry Christmas xox
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Friday, December 3, 2010
day three
This weather is a corker! I know the weather is kinda crazy everywhere in Australia at the moment, but for us Melbourne peeps it's really keeping us on our toes... which is saying something!
I went out my backdoor a little while ago to hang some clothes on the line and just had a little spin out. It's so tropical feeling it reminds me so much of our family holidays to the relos in NSW. Every summer holidays we'd load the Kingswood as high as we could and head north for a month. We'd stay with my Nanna and Poppy on the south coast, and be enveloped by loving hugs, home cooked meals and cakes, chooks, cows and gardens. We'd play backyard cricket, make up our own weird and wonderful games around the property, and just run wild and free. As a city kid it was so fantastic to have so much space to explore.
And we'd also bear witness to awesome storms and some wicked tropical weather. Every morning the grass would be wet and the air would be steamy. By midday it was usually so hot we spent the rest of the afternoon in the swimming pool, and by evening we'd witness another fabulous storm. In the country the lightning is quite something, zig-zagging all over the night sky with no buildings to get in the way of the view.
It is so atmospheric out my backdoor right now. Dark and light. Wet and warm. No cows, or chooks, but still it feels like summer to me. Is this what we can look forward to for the next 3 months? Less hot hot heat and more wet tropical heat? I don't care. I love summer.
Nanna, my cousin Jojo (the blondie) and me!
I went out my backdoor a little while ago to hang some clothes on the line and just had a little spin out. It's so tropical feeling it reminds me so much of our family holidays to the relos in NSW. Every summer holidays we'd load the Kingswood as high as we could and head north for a month. We'd stay with my Nanna and Poppy on the south coast, and be enveloped by loving hugs, home cooked meals and cakes, chooks, cows and gardens. We'd play backyard cricket, make up our own weird and wonderful games around the property, and just run wild and free. As a city kid it was so fantastic to have so much space to explore.
And we'd also bear witness to awesome storms and some wicked tropical weather. Every morning the grass would be wet and the air would be steamy. By midday it was usually so hot we spent the rest of the afternoon in the swimming pool, and by evening we'd witness another fabulous storm. In the country the lightning is quite something, zig-zagging all over the night sky with no buildings to get in the way of the view.
It is so atmospheric out my backdoor right now. Dark and light. Wet and warm. No cows, or chooks, but still it feels like summer to me. Is this what we can look forward to for the next 3 months? Less hot hot heat and more wet tropical heat? I don't care. I love summer.
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