It’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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