Well in a week it will be :) The girls have finished school. They both got fantastic reports and even better, fantastic comments.
I am so looking forward to none of the rushing around that school life entails. I love the days when they can play together and we don't have to leave the house.
I can't believe Christmas is nearly upon us. I love Christmas. I have some amazing memories of Christmas past.
When I was younger and we lived in Darwin it was always a day full of cousins, food, noise and fun. We moved to Perth and it all was different. No cousins and lots less people. Then we created our new Christmas and there were friends who became the family we chose :) We would gather and eat, and the adults would drink, and we would all play board games. There was often a stray person that a family adopted for the day and there was much much laughter.
Then older again and my friends had this tradition of Boxing Day Cricket. We would all gather and the boys would play cricket, most of them anyway. I would be a spectator, and champagne drinker with the ones who didn't play. Then they started to get girlfriends, so I wasn't the only girl there anymore. Then Christmas Eve became either a night at the local pub, catching up with what seemed like every.single.person that had ever lived in our town that came home for Christmas. Or another friend had a Christmas Eve gathering at his house.
They were great times. They seem like another lifetime ago now, but I still remember how carefree those days were. They were full of friends and fun.
These days I live on the other side of the country to those friends. And we made our own traditions again. And I got married and we again made our own traditions. Gone are the Christmas Eve late nights at pubs or with friends. Instead we sneak around building bikes, wrapping presents, stuffing stockings. We get excited imagining the girls faces as they walk out to the Christmas tree laden with presents. Life has changed, but I am somewhere I am content to be. I am blest to be able to have such good Christmas memories :)
