Christmas Cakes
Monday, 22 December 2008
 It's amazing what 1/2 and hour and a set of snowflake cutters can acheive! The kids even helped me with the pink one which is destined for Zali's creche on Wednesday. It was inspired by Zali's choice of the very Christmassy pink polka dot ribbon!
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Bruny Island
Monday, 22 December 2008
Despite some dodgy weather we had a great holiday at Bruny Island with Jackie Bruce and Ben. We visited the beach, went for walks, picked strawberries and relaxed a lot at the well equipped shack. (I beat Jackie at tabletennis 20 games to none). It was really relaxing and just lovely. Jett demonstrated again how far he has come from his waterphobic early years! We would have stayed for a week had the cleaner not turfed us out 30 minutes before the next guests were due to arrive. Next time we go we will have to try to get the kayaks out onto the water..
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Packing
Thursday, 11 December 2008
 It's funny how much the kids love to pack their suitcases when we go away. If only they had such enthusiasm when we got home! Tomorrow we're heading off for a long-awaited weekend at Bruny Island with our friends Jackie, Bruce and Ben. Whilst I haven't been to Bruny since Zali was about a year old, it has many childhood memories for me. I remember once going there on a camping trip with mum when Paul and I forgot to pack our sleeping bags, so we borrowed mum's and she slept under towels in the back of the car. I also remember a school camping trip there in grade 6 where I sustained the sunburn which will no doubt be my undoing. And even earlier than that I remember dad telling me off for excitedly throwing my teddy bear repeatedly towards the ceiling inside a cabin on a trip there when I can't have been more than 6 or so.
Anyhoo. In other news it's been a blur of a week as usual - I've been trying to juggle a few cake bits and pieces with work stuff, the kids, and exercise not necessarily in that order. Jon's been settling into working from home and the kids are just having their last few weeks of school and creche before holidays.
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All his Christmases
Sunday, 7 December 2008
Jon loves Christmas. He loves it. He loves Christmas parties, he loves wearing santa hats and most of all he loves Christmas traditions. Unfortunately for him the Liggins' Christmas traditions generally revolve around arguing what we will do about presents this year, then having a reasonably quiet yet pleasant Christmas dinner after an unremarkable day. This is not the McComb way of doing things. The McComb Christmases involve scheduled festivities and gatherings from 8 in the morning until 8 in the evening. At a McComb Christmas you don't get to retreat somewhere quiet and read your Christmas books. So as you can imagine, Jon gets frustrated with a Liggins Christmas (whilst I feel faint at the thought of a McComb one). This year however, things are looking up for Jon - a significant portion of McCombs are coming to celebrate with the Ligginses which means we're going to have to strap on the Christmas cheer and have a full blown Christmas Day - as such we've been calling it the 'Big One' since we heard the news. Jon is overjoyed and he's on the phone talking turkey to the soon-to-arrive Adelaide McComb chapter right now. Turkey as in turkey sizes, preparations and cooking times. Now I'm almost 100% certain that no turkey has ever given its life for a Liggins' Christmas celebration before. Jon's delirious with joy, whilst I'm thinking about retreating to my room with a book until January.
Anyway - to add to Jon's Christmas cheer he recently found out that you could pay $5 and go and get your own Christmas tree from Pittwater Dunes which is a mere 30 minutes drive away, so guess where we all went this afternoon...
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Medium Sunday
Sunday, 7 December 2008
With the kind permission of my family I was able to do a trail run/walk race today which I only realised was happening on Thursday last week. This meant I did next to no preparation unlike the Mt Roland run which I spent months getting ready for - mentally if not physically. Anyway it was great. The last time I did this walk (also as a run) was 12 years ago with Jo my Mount Roland partner. It turned out it was the day before the Port Arthur massacre so I am always sort of aware of the passing of time from that day. Anyway- the scenery was every bit as amazing as I remembered it and although the company wasn't as good ( I was by myself most of the time) - it was still a really nice treat to get out and do something like that. Roll on some more - I'll be checking here for dates..
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