Christmas in Porepunkah
Happy Christmas! This time of year at Porepunkah is hot and dry. The days are mostly 30 degrees or higher, but we’re fortunate in this sub-alpine area to have cool nights and fresh mornings.
We’ve established a sort of Christmas ritual over the past few years. We go to the Vigil Mass in Bright on Christmas Eve; this year it was at 6pm. We’re a small parish and will soon lose our resident priest to Myrtleford, but services will continue.
The big children wake early on Christmas morning. This year Dude was up at 5am. We had told them not to wake us before seven, but Juliet and I were both up very early as well.
I actually went for a 5km run at 5.30. That’s the first time in nearly 38 years I’ve done that, let alone on Christmas Day!
When I got back the rest of the household had risen and we exchanged gifts. This was the twins’ second Christmas and one they were able to participate in more actively. Next year it will be full on.
The big kids were happy to receive what they hoped for and took more part this year in giving. Juliet’s parents are with us at the moment, so it was quite a gathering.
We’ll enjoy a lunch of turkey, chicken, vegetables, salad and sweets early this afternoon.
Tomorrow we drive to my parents’ home at Moe. It will be the first time that we visit their new house; we didn’t travel last Christmas because the twins had just been born.
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