Jason and I were on call for Hayley, a friend of ours whose baby was due earlier in December and we were looking after her little girl Millie when they time came that she needed to go into hospital. We were with Hayley and Paul the evening before Christmas Eve and Hayley was having contractions, a little late, so we expected a call during the night, it came as we were getting up to drop the dog and pick up the Turkey.
So Jason went with mum and dad do what needed to be done while I had Millie, we then took it in turns during the day to look after her while we got things sorted here for Christmas. Poor Hayley eventually had an emergency caesarean but delivered a very healthy 9lb 9 oz baby boy who is adorable.
When Paul arrived back from the hospital we came home and had some tea, before getting all the pressies ready.
Christmas Morning we were up about 8.30, not too early thank goodness, when everyone was up Andrew skyped and we positioned the lap top so he could see the pressie opening. As usual the kids were delighted with what they got and we had fun during the day playing with everything. The weather wasn’t great, it was warm but breezy so we had seafood starter cooked on the BBQ and then traditional turkey and the trimmings.
Buster getting into the Christmas Spirit
Tree and Pressies and Buster and Pressies
Boxing day we went to the beach, well why not the sun was shining and it was lovely and warm, we took a picnic and had a couple of hours playing in the sand, before going to Sorrento and having a jug of beer and a bottle of wine, ohh and the kids had coffee and cake.
Sam keeping cool and Tom not complaining for once
Torture by fly
Mt Martha in the distance
Saturday 27th, was shopping, the kids money from Aunts and Friends (thank you all very much), was burning a hole in their pockets and I had some money to spend from Andrew, which was spent very wisely in the sales.Sunday 28th was a lazy day, we didn’t rush to get up after a hectic few days, once we’d had breakfast we set off to find the Karina vineyard, the bottle of wine in Sorrento yesterday was from this vineyard and was very nice, we knew it wasn’t too far away so decided to try and find it. We found it and a couple more in the process, mum and dad had great fun, we don’t have a picture of dad carrying out the box from one of the yards.
The following week Jason and I were back at work for a couple of days, Jason worked from home and I had to go in obviously, but only until 3.15 so it wasn’t too bad.
New years eve we were invited to Justine and Kieran’s, they are a lovely couple, who arrived here after us, it was a select gathering, with them and their 2 boys, Julie and Mark, Eddy and Kerrie, Nick and Sally and 2 of their kids, Stuart and his boys (his wife was working) and another couple and their children and I cannot remember their names.
New years eve we were invited to Justine and Kieran’s, they are a lovely couple, who arrived here after us, it was a select gathering, with them and their 2 boys, Julie and Mark, Eddy and Kerrie, Nick and Sally and 2 of their kids, Stuart and his boys (his wife was working) and another couple and their children and I cannot remember their names.
We all went, Tom and Sam came home about 10.30, they were bored, we saw midnight in and mum and dad came home at about 1.30 and Jason and I got home about 3.30 apparently.......I can’t remember and I was very tired the next day and didn’t get out of bed until after 1 in the afternoon.
It was a lovely night, everyone had a good laugh and mum and dad enjoyed meeting new friends and some old ones they had met before.
Mum trying the Ozzie snowball and not liking it
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