Posts Tagged With: Christmas in Australia

Another Christmas is all over!

Posted on December 29, 2014 by Are We There Yet?

10420388_698266230281288_7325937457839014234_nOnce again I’m late with the Christmas wishes, so a very, merry, belated Christmas everyone!  The kids and I are enjoying some very quiet days at Blue Sky at the moment while Matt is immersed in mango season madness.  On the mango front, things are not as crazy as last year though so we did manage to have a pretty relaxed Christmas day and Boxing Day this year – much better than spending it in hospital as we did last Christmas!

As you know, we kicked off our Christmas festivities about a month ago when we headed out to choose our ‘real’ Christmas tree from the Christmas Tree farm, you can read all about that outing here.  Next on the festive calendar was the local Christmas Carols night which the kids loved despite the fact that due to some iffy weather the carols were moved indoors and we were all hot, sweaty and crammed in to the local PCYC hall – not really the magical night we were hoping for but the kids enjoyed themselves nonetheless! Continue reading →

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Atherton Christmas Tree Farm

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Are We There Yet?

DSC_0139It’s the first of December already – hasn’t the year just flown!  We are being very organised this year and making sure everything ‘Christmas’ is taken care of before mango season madness kicks off here at Blue Sky Produce next week – none of the last minute, slightly stressful craziness that we had last year!

So – one of our favourite things about Christmas is the Christmas Tree.  We love choosing where to put it and decorating it as a family, pulling out all the old decorations made by the kids or special ones given as gifts. Since we have moved up here, we have a new rule that we must have a ‘real’ pine Christmas tree.  I always had a ‘real’ tree growing up and the smell of them takes me straight back to my Christmas’s as a kid with all my cousins!  We would all pile in the back of the ute and head off around the farm looking for a pine tree with a suitable branch we could chop off for a Christmas tree.  We had to sing Christmas carols at the top of our voices or my Dad would stop the ute and would not move again until the singing was at a satisfactory level.  It didn’t matter if we only knew the chorus of each Christmas carol, we’d just sing what we could and move on to the next one.  Such great fun and great, great memories! Continue reading →

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