Posts Our immediate family celebrates Christmas on 24th, so the kids can open their presents and we can have a cruisy day hanging out and playing .. before they get torn away the next day to visit the rellies.
Our home-made tradition is to swim at the nearby beach, then collect our Christmas order from Abhi’s Bread. This year is was sultana and polenta turtles, almond croissants, fruit and nut bread, spelt fruit mince pies, sunflower and rye sourdough and gingerbread people. We then cook up some mushrooms, cut up a fruit like mango, watermelon, nectarine, peaches, cherries and grapes…and guts ourselves to bloating. We leave the food out for people to nibble all day.
We then exchange presents and play all day.
(This year the family enrolled in the wii Big Brain Academy, sang silly songs to the Spicks and Specks interactive quiz DVD and are about to play Cadoo…and I’ll get into the wii MySims when the kids are in bed. Everyone else in the family has a new camera, so keep taking photos of me as I write this )
Last year I made a Happy Holidays clip. This year I’ll just say the same thing – happy holidays and please keep blogging, twittering, seesmicing, talking, IMing, unconferencing and collaborating like last year. ..I so love hearing what everyone has to say. I’m off work until 14th January, so may take a break here, too.
I wanted to reprint here a poem that I loved when it was in our textbooks at school. It’s called The Computer’s First Christmas Card by Edwin Morgan, but is copyright protected. Check out the link…it’s sweet and quirky.
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