The post season slump???

So every Christmas season comes around way too fast. There is the usual argument I have with myself do I bake the cookies or buy....inevitably I end up baking in a mad little rush as the guilt starts eating me up. Actually the guilt has only become worse since facebook...all those acquaintances who I don't really know anymore commenting on their baking...sigh I will sort myself out by the time I am 40 and have the courage to not cave to the guilt!!!!!

Anyhow, there was the rush, the shopping galore and then suddenly before you know it the day. Incredibly this year I was NOT up until 4am finishing off the barbie house I had made for Bella I was actually organized!!! None the less 6am comes along awfully fast and the gifts were torn open. Again I found myself saying next year will be different there won't be so much whether that will actually happen who knows!

The family arrived on the 26th, my father and stepmother from Botswana where they are currently working and my youngest stepbrother from Canada. It was lovely and the girls wanted nothing to do with me AND THAT people was the best thing about the whole time they were here!!! OK so there were other lovely parts and they were chilled and easy going but hey when the kids want Opi rather than you....BLISS!

A chilled out New Years Eve with friends and no hangover on the first and then the departures began. Theo on the evening of the 1st and my dad and Lani on the morning of the 3rd. It is always sad to see them go and the house becomes very quiet. While visitors can be a pain when you are an expat it can be hard to say good bye.

Hope you all have had a wonderful new year so far!

XXX