I really like our quiet Christmas's at home and not having to go away- must be getting old! Not sure if we will ever have any grandchildren to bring the magic that little kids bring to Christmas but enjoy this stage of our life. For the last few years we have gone out somewhere nice for dinner Christmas Eve as a family. This year it was Blackfire in Braddon. A Mediterranean style cuisine, cooked on a fire pit or in a wood fired oven. I use the kid's board money to pay for the dinner, it is a present to them and a present to me not having to cook Christmas lunch. We then came home and opened presents with the 'grand birds'. Bill has always been a bit of a humbug about Christmas and never very enthusiastic about presents, but the last couple of years there has been a bit of a bird theme to his presents, so if you give him something with a macaw on it he is usually pretty enthusiastic!
Birds helping to unwrap the presents!
Even Luna came to join us and see what was happening!
We had Christmas Brunch on Christmas Day, nice and relaxed and nothing too difficult. A friend of Amy's who has recently moved to Canberra joined us. Mars was a real character, she had lots of stories to tell about working for Air Services and her life in Indonesia before she came to Australia for her schooling.
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