Happy Christmas from Vetty Creations

It’s late on Christmas Eve, here. We’ve been wrapping gifts for nieces and nephews, and now that our girls have gone to bed, we can wrap theirs too.

We’ve been to the Christmas Eve service at our church this evening, where we sang carols and the younger children took part in a nativity play. The Reader is too old for these things, but The Gymnast took part, as the star of the show. Quite literally, she was the star that showed where the baby Jesus was born! The children were all very cute, as they always are in these things.

The Reader booked in with council and has done some busking at the local shops this Christmas season. She played Christmas carols on her trumpet. She sounded great! She also did it last year, and I feel she’s made a huge improvement in her playing over the past year. It was a pleasure to hear her playing for others. Some of our friends were shopping locally and saw and heard her, and thought she sounded great too – friends who haven’t seen her in recent times and didn’t realise it was her!

I finished my sewing for gifts today. Now that The Gymnast is at a different gym where they’re allowed to wear their own choice of leotards for training, she was thrilled to plan a new leotard for me to make. However, she wasn’t allowed to see it being made. I buried myself away in part of the house to finish it today, while she and The Husband made gingerbread.

And now we’re icing them. Two trays done, and one more to go. They’re all snowflakes, which really is quite silly, given that Australia has summer this time of year (and even when it is winter, we never get snow here!). The girls and I went swimming at the local pool this morning before breakfast. It was lovely. Soon after I started my laps, a mist came up the valley and settled on the pool. It looked very atmospheric!

Tomorrow will be a family day for us, celebrating God’s gift of Jesus to us. We’ll have lunch and then dinner with different parts of the family. We’re planning to have a water fight during the day – we thought it would be a fun thing for all the cousins to do, so hopefully it will be hot. I think it’s supposed to rain, but that’s fine as we’re going to get wet anyway!

If Christmas is something that you celebrate, I hope that you have a special day with family and/or friends. I hope that you take some time to remember the reason for Christmas – God’s gift of his son Jesus, to us. Of course, the story isn’t complete without Easter, where Jesus died on the cross as a sacrifice for our sins, so that we can be right with God. What an amazing gift!

Best wishes from me and my family to you and yours!