Deck the Halls

Well December is well and truly underway! That means SUMMER. And Christmas. The last few years I would cringe at the thought of the 'C' word, so much so that I made my theme song "Ho Ho F**king Ho" by Kevin Bloody Wilson (WARNING it contains pretty strong language and you may never look at me the same after listening to it...). Working in retail I was tired of hearing carols piped through the PA system from October, carols that are completely irrelevant in Australia. Then there's the influx in customers in the shops. Everyone wanting their stuff last week and thinking that they are much more important than anyone else. Don't get me wrong, I do quite enjoy my job for the most part, it's just the attitude of some people... Then a large amount of 'some people' in a cluster... well, it's enough to put even Santa himself off Christmas!! Anyhow, lets not talk about the negatives today.

This year something changed! I've had a whole year off work, I haven't had to listen to festive music ad nauseum, and I get to make things all pretty and exciting for my little girl. So really, what's not to love?! Little kids make Christmas more magical for me - seeing those little eyes light up just does something I can't describe. Abbie was certainly in aw of the pretty colours when we switched on the tree! Saturday afternoon I dug out the tree and the decorations from the store room (of doom!) and dusted them all off. We didn't bother decorating last year so it was a bit of a mission to scale the piles of random boxes and rescue the tree. I set it all up with Abbie eagerly watching from Daddy's lap. Then she helped put her very first ornament on the tree - a reindeer she chose at Kmart. We also put on a cat for Victor :)

My little reindeer

Helping daddy put it on the tree

Our Christmas tree

All lit up!

Mesmerised

Sunday was party day!! First off we had the kids party for Matthew's work. It was on the lawn outside the Ergon office and there was plenty of entertainment for the kids. There was a jumping castle, water slide, face painting, fairy floss and a petting zoo. Matthew took Abbie to see the animals but she wasn't too keen, especially after she got pecked by a duckling! We had some lunch then Santa came!! All the kids got called up to sit on Santa's lap then get a present. Abbie was first on the list and she was pretty impressed with her new shape sorter :) Then she decided the paper was pretty fun too...

We went home for a little rest before heading out again to our next Christmas party. All our playgroup friends got together down at the riverway lagoons and had a sausage sizzle and a swim. We also did a secret santa and Abbie was very lucky to get some toys for the bath and a cute little dress :) We are so lucky to have such wonderful friends to play with and share great memories! After a big day it was time to go home for some much needed sleep.

Monday we went to the daycare centre to have a play and get a feel for things. Abz was not shy at all! She was straight into the toys and taste tested most of them... I just hope she's happy to be there for 2 full days a week, without mummy & daddy to play with!

After daycare we went to the shops to finish Christmas shopping and pick up our toy sale layby. I think we're pretty much done on the present front, which is a huge achievement in this house! Next year I think we'll just donate gifts to the Wishing Tree...

And that about wraps things up. Ha ha, wrap....
Until we meet again xo