How we spent Christmas
I heard Kathleen, 12, and Dude, 10, snooping around the Christmas tree about 6am. Margaret, 3, started screaming at 6.30am. When I went to her room, twin Jim was wide awake. He said Dude had been teasing them. This was obviously a ploy to get the little ones awake so Mum and Dad would also wake up. It worked, of course.
We exchanged gifts at 6.40am. I say “exchange” but it was more a mad rush to tear and play. It was all over at 6.55am.
I had breakfast and then started delivering copies of the Kalgoorlie Miner to the three of nine outlets open on Christmas Day that weren’t open late on Christmas Eve when the papers arrived especially early on the last Qantas flight. Unfortunately only one of the three was open before 8am.
We went to 10am Mass at St Joseph’s in Boulder. I delivered one set of papers on the way and the last set on the way home, only to receive a complaint from the shopkeeper that they were late! Merry Christmas.
I went for a jog at 11.30am. The weather was beautifully mild for this time of year. At 12.30pm we went to visit Carol and Gonz, our Zimbabwean friends who recently attained Australian residency. We were joined by a couple of South African families for Christmas lunch.
It wasn’t the same as being with our own families, but certainly the next best thing, especially for the children. Happy Christmas!
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