It was Shay’s first day of full time school last week so the festive season is officially over. Haydn was back at work and Zac was back to kindy . I’m half heartedly looking for work – as in, I’m waiting for the perfect job that pays billions for not many hours to come find me. So far, no luck. We had a great time leading up to Christmas. Shay was ‘in the band’ in his nativity play at school. He performed the role of triangle player superbly and I didn’t hear one single bad note come from him.
Zac was a sheep in his kindy’s performance. They sat on stage singing songs (he was very good) and just picked the costume they wanted the morning of the play.
The week before Christmas seemed to fly past with the two boys on holidays and all of a sudden it was Christmas. We had an enormous tree and lots of decorations up. On Christmas Eve we had a lovely dinner at the Easterbrook’s. Last Christmas day was spent with them and Christine didn’t disappoint after setting such high standards last year. After dinner we went to the family service at their church. All the kids dressed up and the Steers and Tassells joined us too.
Christmas Eve we put carrots, water and mince pies out for Santa and his reindeer. They were obviously appreciative as they left loads of presents again. The look on the boys’ faces was priceless. Asher and I were up first and had a nice quiet cup of coffee before the chaos began. I’d post the picture of Shay’s face but he’d taken all his pj’s off during the night and the photos is of him looking excited and completely nude.
The boys had a great time opening presents and playing with all their new toys.
After lunch I picked up Jane and Erick and we all went for a walk (Zac on his new balance bike) and then had a lovely Christmas dinner together. Once the boys were in bed, and pretty much straight asleep, we had Jane’s lovely pavlova she had made and then some cheese and port.
Boxing day was spent packing for our trip to the Hague. We drove there on the 27th and had a pretty uneventful and stress free journey. We were lucky enough to stay in Greg and Nadine’s apartment. It was beautiful – amazingly huge with high ceilings, and great proportions but really comfortable too. We achieved nothing all week except pretending we lived there. The boys all played really well and had so much space to run around. New Year’s Eve was bizarre with all the conservative Haguers(?) coming out of their houses at midnight after obviously having spent the evening inside drinking, and they all let off fireworks (not small ones either) on their doorsteps or the middle of the street.
We did have a day trip to Delft but it was freezing so we ate lunch, bought a fridge magnet (that said Amsterdam on it) and went back to the comfort of the house. Now we’re back into a normalish routine. There’s been lots of snow and we’ve even taken the kids to school/nursery on a sled.
Hope you all have a great year in 2010.
Love the Dawsons
Do you need and extra child? If so count me in as your Christmas looks like fun and your snata gives wonderful presents.