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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 328803" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>OK, difficult child 3 & I have been packing bags of biscuits for our friends at church. easy child expressed concerns that the Christmas Day service would hopefully not be as dreary as it has been the last few years; at our church people take turns in leading the services and the couple that have done Christmas for the last few years have killed it for her, she said. SIL1 isn't too keen on going to church (long story) but was attending for our sakes; this year he didn't want to endure more of the same as last year. So I discreetly rang someone to find out (along with other stuff) who was "on duty" tomorrow. And yes - the same people.</p><p></p><p>So husband & I will be going, so will mother in law and difficult child 3, but SIL1 & easy child will stay home.</p><p></p><p>A lot of people from church were handing out Christmas cards last Sunday, maybe they already knew who was running tomorrow's service?</p><p></p><p>We're in for a fairly quiet Christmas tomorrow, it will be all spread out with the other kids not arriving until late afternoon/evening. I think we'll take some DVDs down to mother in law's place and watch movies and play Wii while we wait for everyone else. mother in law loves a house full of people - easy child & SIL1 have chosen to go down there tonight to give her some company.</p><p></p><p>difficult child 3 & I went down to the beach after the worst of the sun was past. It was windy by then but thankfully there was a touch of coolness in the breeze to relieve the worst of the temperatures. Tomorrow should be cooler, or it may take until Boxing Day for the weather to change - a cyclone up near Darwin headed inland and toned itself down to a tropical storm. What is left of it hit the Red Centre today, Uluru and Alice Springs got a welcome soaking. Hopefully it will continue south enough to put out the fires in South Australia before it heads over our way.</p><p>It was odd to look at the weather map today and see such an intense wet patch right in the heart of our usually very dry country.</p><p></p><p>As husband said, Santa drove round the town tonight in the fire truck. We went out to wave, I was wearing my Mrs Claus apron because I was cooking dinner. I'll be wearing it most of tomorrow as well, I'll be pottering a lot. Here are our photos from this evening, Christmas Eve in our village.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bundeenapix/sets/72157623061479778/detail/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/bundeenapix/sets/72157623061479778/detail/</a></p><p></p><p>I noticed husband stuck in the photo of me at the front gate - I'm not posing, I'm doing my physio exercises to strengthen my hip muscles!</p><p></p><p>I've still got a bit of food preparation to do tonight before I get to bed. Almost done, though. It feels good to relax and know everything is under control - mostly because we chose to do very little this year and simply not fuss!</p><p></p><p>Enjoy your Christmas, everybody. </p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 328803, member: 1991"] OK, difficult child 3 & I have been packing bags of biscuits for our friends at church. easy child expressed concerns that the Christmas Day service would hopefully not be as dreary as it has been the last few years; at our church people take turns in leading the services and the couple that have done Christmas for the last few years have killed it for her, she said. SIL1 isn't too keen on going to church (long story) but was attending for our sakes; this year he didn't want to endure more of the same as last year. So I discreetly rang someone to find out (along with other stuff) who was "on duty" tomorrow. And yes - the same people. So husband & I will be going, so will mother in law and difficult child 3, but SIL1 & easy child will stay home. A lot of people from church were handing out Christmas cards last Sunday, maybe they already knew who was running tomorrow's service? We're in for a fairly quiet Christmas tomorrow, it will be all spread out with the other kids not arriving until late afternoon/evening. I think we'll take some DVDs down to mother in law's place and watch movies and play Wii while we wait for everyone else. mother in law loves a house full of people - easy child & SIL1 have chosen to go down there tonight to give her some company. difficult child 3 & I went down to the beach after the worst of the sun was past. It was windy by then but thankfully there was a touch of coolness in the breeze to relieve the worst of the temperatures. Tomorrow should be cooler, or it may take until Boxing Day for the weather to change - a cyclone up near Darwin headed inland and toned itself down to a tropical storm. What is left of it hit the Red Centre today, Uluru and Alice Springs got a welcome soaking. Hopefully it will continue south enough to put out the fires in South Australia before it heads over our way. It was odd to look at the weather map today and see such an intense wet patch right in the heart of our usually very dry country. As husband said, Santa drove round the town tonight in the fire truck. We went out to wave, I was wearing my Mrs Claus apron because I was cooking dinner. I'll be wearing it most of tomorrow as well, I'll be pottering a lot. Here are our photos from this evening, Christmas Eve in our village. [url]http://www.flickr.com/photos/bundeenapix/sets/72157623061479778/detail/[/url] I noticed husband stuck in the photo of me at the front gate - I'm not posing, I'm doing my physio exercises to strengthen my hip muscles! I've still got a bit of food preparation to do tonight before I get to bed. Almost done, though. It feels good to relax and know everything is under control - mostly because we chose to do very little this year and simply not fuss! Enjoy your Christmas, everybody. Marg [/QUOTE]
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