Christmas Day 2007
Christmas Day is always a special occasion for the children and this year was no exception.
We started our celebration by attending the Family Vigil Mass at St Mary’s.
We then drove around Kalgoorlie looking at some of the Christmas lights. Funnily enough the council tree in St Barbara’s Square wasn’t lit at 8.15pm.
Anyhow, there were some wonderfully decorated homes.
The twins managed to contain their excitement and went to bed about 9pm.
They woke us at 5.45am and were straight into the presents.
James is getting better at this. He used to get so overwhelmed that he would finish up grumpy in a corner somewhere.
Today he still took his presents to a quiet place for opening, like a dog with a bone, but he returned for more and didn’t get agitated.
Maggie (pictured) is much more comfortable in the limelight.
Little kids are easy to buy presents for and much cheaper. They’re happy with anything basically.
For the big kids, we had detailed wishlists and had to work our way through them (expensively) over several weeks.
Personalised Christmas cards
It's also the first time in over a year that I've taken a photo of all the kids together, which is something I should do more often. The full-size image is here and the gallery is here.
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!
Christmas work poll
I think overtime is fair enough for Christmas Day.
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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