Christmas wins!

A couple of years ago I read about an idea (I think it was one of Ian Grant's) for a pre-Christmas adventure--get your kids up out of bed one night and drive down Franklin Road to admire the fairy lights. I am all about memory making moments (especially those related to Christmas) so on the eve of the eve we bundled our sleepy (yet extraordinary excited) little girl into the car and headed out. And of course it all fell completely to custard. Don't you just love it when the adventures you plan for your kids end up being anything but fun? On the way back home, with two screaming babes in the back of the car, I felt like I could have submitted my much anticipated 'eve of the eve' fairy light extravaganza to Fail Blog. Parenting...FAIL.

We made two fatal errors: 1) by the 23rd of December the traffic is backed up for hours from every possible direction. And error 2) I assumed that my baby would sleep beautifully in the car the way his sister used to. We now know that this is not so. :)









So we never made it to Franklin Road (managed to pull a U-turn through lanes of standstill traffic), however we did spot some pretty lights. Traffic lights and street lights and such. Of which I took a few pictures that remind me of Monet paintings. And Sophia points at them happily and exclaims 'look at the Franklin Road fairy lights'. Bless. :)










And the other little bit of pre-Christmas fun I had planned was to make coconut marshmallow, package it up and deliver it to my friends as a gift. Hmm. Take 2 at pre-Christmas fun = marshmallow FAIL. Actually, although the end result wasn't gift worthy it tasted pretty good. It was the fact that I blew up the electric beaters (literally--explosion and black smoke) that accounted for the fail. That and the heavy consistency that flattened into a marshmallow flounder on the tray. It was salvageable however (just) and I am game to have another go soon. After I've purchased some new beaters.


While I'm on the topic, here are a couple of other Christmas fails from Fail Blog... Hehe.











As for the pre-Christmas WINS, there are many.

#1 nothing quite like Mum's Christmas Mince Pies.











#2 a bit of pre-Christmas painting.











#3 pre-Christmas BBQs when the weather is warm until late.

#4 taste testing the practise run of Dad's Christmas day potatoes.











#5 the Christmas Eve sunset.











Have I said the word Christmas enough?

And then, of course, there are the many many wins of CHRISTMAS day...






































































































Well done Christmas, you win.


I had a few wins with my camera also and I'll post them shortly. To view more Christmas pics click here.


Hope your Christmas was filled with many many wins also. (Christmas Christmas Christmas.)


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