Loot!
Greetings from the other side of Christmas… I realise some of you won’t be quite done with yours yet, but it’s Boxing Day here and we are reeling from Christmas 2011.
Mountains of great food (thanks Mum), lashings of cold chardonnay (thanks Mum), hours of chatter and laughter (thanks sister, brother, in-laws, nieces, nephews and my SIL’s sister and parents who shared our day too). And then there were the pressies…
One in particular really stole the attention of our kids…
A teeny tiny little motorbike.
Santa gave them both helmets and we gave them the bike – teamwork! The heavenly peace has been well and truly shattered by the low roar of a Honda two-wheeler. Luckily Dash had been getting lessons the previous weekend from his uncle and cousins at my husband’s family Christmas celebrations.
A path is being currently worn around our houseyard by two very keen riders. (Please note the horsey gumboots – I wonder which horse-mad child ordered THOSE from Santa?). There have only a couple of crashes each thus far, and no major injuries yet to report (touch wood!).
Adults have also done quite nicely – my friend Lou took some portraits of my family in September which I got printed and popped into simple frames for my husband.
He also got some Jamie Oliver barbecue utensils (from the kids)…
Dash got a much-asked-for globe which is allowing lots of planning a dreaming about future trips away. (With the resounding success of our American adventure earlier this year).
Dash and Violet’s cousins got something low-tech but which provided ENORMOUS enjoyment for all …
Ducklings.
Gorgeous little balls of yellow fluff.
The kids bounced between the minibike and the ducklings (and the food) all day at my parent’s place – having a whale of a time.
(And yes, that is some air that Dash appears to be catching there…)
Our Christmas bon-bons produces a ‘joke’ for me which had me quite concerned…
Ummmm… clearly we need to do some more basic work on bovine gender recognition for our bon-bon-joke-scribes.
But for me, one of the great highlights of my day were the gifts our just-turned-seven-year-old daughter hand-made in the lead-up to Christmas. Unaided and unabetted by anyone else. She beavered away on the side verandah with scissors and sticky tape and cardboard and glitter.
And made special boxes and decorative items for us all…
And then wrapped and labelled them all – BY HERSELF. And then asked me to print out some little cards and painstakingly wrote out everyone’s names on them and stuck them onto each gift. Without help.
My heart just about exploded.
She was truly excited to see each of us unwrap her offerings … and I was so proud of her.
Even Dash (who is notoriously hard to impress, especially by his little sister) was delighted by his gift…
I think we managed to do something right with this pair.
Hope your Christmas had it’s own special moments that made you feel good inside.
♥
BB
12 Comments
Theresa in Alberta
Those boxes I would treasure forever and ever!!
debby
Ditto what Theresa said! How wonderful! Ducklings and motorbikes! How can life get any more exciting than that. I’m so glad your Christmas was wonderful.
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Cazzie
It is so awesome when the children enjoy Christmas, and we are all lucky that our children have the love of animals and the land we live in. We were lucky enough to have an early arrival of one of our favourite girlie goats’ kid. My girls named him “Jesus” as he was born on Christmas Eve.
Your Calendar was welcomed by my friend, she absolutely loves your photographic skills. 🙂
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A Novel Woman
I am going to put motorbike and ducklings on my list next year. Love that photo. My kids put together a collage of photos for my husband, including a photo of us when we were still dating. So sweet, and it made him cry.
Okay, I’ve got to get that image of the seared scallops out of my head. I’m salivating all the way over here in the Great White North.
Happy New Year!
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Mikey
Very cool! What a great holiday you guys had. We had a great one too! Happy New Year!
Kelly
What a cute little motorbike! I didn’t realize HOW little ’til I saw Dash on it!
That last photo made my heart melt. 🙂 So sweet!!
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Scotty
Glad to hear you all had a good day, BB – mine was pleasantly quiet (which was fine with me seeing as how I was at work).
🙂
Leenie
As much as I like a white Christmas it would sure be nice to spend a warm afternoon making and wrapping presents outside on a veranda. Your kiddos are doing their parents proud. Keeping my fingers crossed that the motor bike and the riders survive each other without incident.
Had to laugh at the bovine bon bon joke.
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Colin (HB)
My God und Mein Gott ( practicing my language skills!)
How in the name of epicurian delights of the previous post on food intake were you able to write another post on presents???
I wonder what Bayleaf and Horseradish think in bovine land, “what in God’s hell have we got here!”
Great to see Violet’s efforts and that last photo of the two of them says it all.
Now maybe to shred all those extra kilos, forget the bike, the horses, the vehicles and start running.
I doubt that I’ll be eating pork again for quite some time – I will be eating salads, with PORK, until the end of the week! Exit PORK!
Great post BB – pity about the “bon-bon-joke” – actually I roared laughing!
Colin
Kate
Oh, I loved reading this, BB! Cool bike, too. That family portrait is just stunning. Love that it’s in b&w. What a great Christmas! Well, except for those jokes. The ones we opened in our Christmas crackers at my in-laws (husband’s family is from GB) were really really bad too.
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Dora
Why did bull wear a well?
Dora
Good to hear that, thanks for sharing
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