December Daily: Day 10

Traditions: Advent calendar.

Craft: Christmas cards

Decorating: Not exactly decorating, but preparing for Phill’s party.

Singing: You guessed it: Away in a manger.

Eating: Pancakes for breakfast!

Organising: Phill’s party.

Watching:  Emily riding her bike! She can just reach the pedals and can ride at least on the smooth floor inside.

Receiving: A few birthday cards for Phill

Cooking: 2 cakes, 1 cheesecake and 1 icecream cake

Buying: Meat, rolls and salad for the party.

Listening: Phill and Emily watching Anamaniacs and singing some song: “O so feathery”

Melissa

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December Daily: Day 9

Tradition: Opening the advent calendar. Christmas lights on the tree.

Craft: Christmas cards

Singing: Away in a Manger (get the theme here?)

Eating: Emily had her first hard boiled egg (that I know of) – she ate two whole eggs and was asking for more!

Buying: Kebabs and some groceries for the party.

Organising: Tidying the house for Phill’s party and making our plan of attack for the cooking etc.

Listening: Emily playing by herself while I am still in bed at 10 to 8!

Emily watching the cricket, NZ batting: “Mummy I see him, I see Daniel Vettori” “He’s not playing today, he has glasses, the other ones don’t have glasses” “Yes, it is Daniel Vettori!” “Turn the sound on Mummy”

Hmm, no photos today…

Melissa

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December Daily: Day 8

Traditions: Getting locked out of the house! It happened last year as well! Thanks Michael for helping us out. Thanks to the next door neighbours for having us over in the mean time!
Singing: Emily and Grandad S Singing away in a Manger
Buying: I signed up for Karen Grunberg’s Reclaiming Your Time workshop  (50% off!) at the last moment!
Receiving: A Lego Reindeer with Emily’s Lego Club

Eating: Lasagne for tea with Mum and Dad S.

Organising: Phill’s party and other family events.
Watching: Sherlock
Listening: Emily to Reindeer at nap time: “I’m berry berry tired.”
Melissa
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December Daily: Day 7

Traditions: New tradition? Life group Christmas breakup. We had a present swap – I got a cool travel mug and Phill swapped to get a swear jar for work to raise funds for the Fathering Project. The bug zapper was a popular gift!

Eating: The best peaches! Phill bought the fruit for playgroup again and every time we all comment on how good it is. Even the Mums were eating the peaches!

All sorts of party goodies at Mousa and Michelle’s.

Organising: My plans for digital scrapbooking in January

Watching: Children’s programs

Giving & Receiving: Christmas cards (though not at playgroup as planned as Emily was too upset after hitting her head). We got our first card today! Secret Santa swap at lifegroup.

Realising: I am thankful for an awesome Chiropractor – I arrived with a headache and left without one! Thanks Sally!

I am totally blessed to have wonderful hardworking husband, a gorgeous little girl, and a little baby on the way who is just starting to kick – so precious.

Listening:  Emily needed ear muffs for while Daddy was cleaning the carpet in her room. Emily fell and hurt her head while packing up at Playgroup and was so upset, not fun listening to her crying in pain But happily she’s not even got a bruise on her.

Melissa

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December Daily: Day 6

The story today is all about Reindeer. He was a true favourite of Emily’s at 6 months, he came with a Christmas suit I bought at Target Kalgoorlie.

See him on the windowsill?

In 2010 he was packed away in storage. I never expected that he would be so well loved when he reappeared among the decorations.

Helping Emily get to sleep.

Waiting for Mummy to wake up from her afternoon nap.

In other news the weather today was the wettest December day on record.

So much lightning the airport was closed all day!

And out new marquee didn’t really drain as well as it might have! Mum came an helped me empty it out before it was totally destroyed.

Craft: Finished the advent calendar today!

Singing: Away in a Manger (Emily can mostly sing the 1st verse!)

Dancing: As always.

Eating: Pies and salad to clear our the freezer ready for the party.

Organising: Christmas cards – printed them and wrote the Christmas letter.

Watching: Emily on the Bunnings play equipment. The Mentalist, while Phill was out with friends.

Listening: “Mummy, Spot is all wet!”(He swam in the pool! So did Emily at about 4:30 once the rain stopped!)

Melissa

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December Daily: Day 5

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Traditions: Opening the advent calendar.
Craft: More pictures on the Advent calendar!
Eating: Shepherd’s pie (well more like savoury mince pie…)
Brilliant Idea of the Day: FIlling up the other half of the sandpit shell with water. I know, how smart am I? lol

Realising: Emily totally loved the paddling pool! Love that we have some shade for her to play outside.
Sleeping: Another big sleep today, woke up hot to discover the power went out and the air con of course wasn’t on. About 3:30pm it came on again.
Listening: “What up, What up I'm a Youtube star. I said what Spot says, Mummy.” “Mummy it’s Angelina, come and watch.” “Eloise has a pool, now I have my own pool!”
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December Daily: Day 4

This year I am so excited to spend our first Christmas at home. Just us three in our own home getting to open up our presents. We’ll head off and visit our families too, but then we can head home when Emily is tired.
We love spending time with the rellies, but this year feels like our first real family Christmas!

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Traditions: 2nd attempt at family photo for our Christmas cards. Church this morning – seeing lots of familiar faces around. Emily is thrilled to play with her friends. This week when I left she was playing with Eden C and Evie M and the Little People Farm (complete with alpaca).

Giving: Some things for the food hampers, food and gifts for the local people Whitford Care supports.

Singing: Away in a Manger (Emily is learning it at church)

Homemaking: Phill put up a marquee for his party (6x6m all by himself!). It looks awesome! Here’s hoping it survives the storms we are supposed to be getting.

Watching: Miss Marple while folding washing!

Buying: Some more groceries as Coles is open on Sundays. Seems we are stocking up the pantry!

Playing: Emily walking around in the Christmas stockings! Too cute, but she won’t be doing it again.

Eating: Hungry Jacks for tea – I couldn’t resist as we had a 2 for 1 voucher and there’s HJs at Joondalup. Emily kindly shared her chips with us! How cute they are putting them in boxes now. Though there’s a bit of a debate about it since you can’t eat and drive anymore!

Oh and Emily was so so excited to get the little bubble blowing Occy the Octopus – maybe she’ll be saying C soon!

Realising: How little cash I carry when the EFTPOS is down at Woolies. On a hot day (at 18 weeks pregnant too) I decided paid the $1.50 to withdraw money at NAB, rather than walk around to Westpac with Emily.

How is your month travellling so far?

Melissa

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