After a twelve hour journey door to door, you better end up somewhere worth the long queues, airplane food (although Virgin Atlantic is better than most, I will say) and jet lag. While the holidays at my house can be extraordinarily hectic (I’m sure you can say the same of yours), its always worth the trip.
My three-week trip home started with Thanksgiving Part II. Since I spent the actual day, the BEST holiday of the year, abroad, my Mom cooked me a special Thanksgiving dinner the night I got home. Definitely worth staying awake for!
Even though I don’t eat everything anymore, being a vegetarian and all, I made her (meanly, I suppose) cook up everything, including the turkey.
My favorite thing to do is pile everything up on my plate and mix it together until it is an unrecognizable pile of mush. Tastes amazing but looks yucky, so I saved you from having to look at a photo of it.
The best part of being home, though, is certainly reuniting with the kiddos. Every time I come back, they’re seven sizes bigger than they were when I left, and are 100 times more rambunctious.
The weekend before Christmas we had a bit of a family reunion, where we all got super silly (and crazy festive).
We had a crazy Christmas jumper contest (no winner was ever announced, but see if you can guess who I thought should have won!)…
After showing off our kit, my very favorite Christmas tradition, a reading of “How Murray Saved Christmas” by my Aunt T. If you’ve never ready it, you SHOULD. It’s about a Jewish deli owner who has to become Santa Claus due to an unfortunate accident delivering gifts. Growing up I didn’t realize just how hilarious it is, and Aunt T reads it with accents and reindeer horns. How could you not love it?!
By Christmas eve, we’d drank gallons of egg nog (and a few liters of accompanying Jim Beam!), decorated the tree and had enough incidents of children playing with ornaments to fill 100 blog entries.
But by Christmas day all was forgotten in lieu of presents, presents and more presents by everyone in the family, from age 2 to 52!
We all know the song about there being no place like home for the holidays- and I definitely agree!
Finally, the wait is over and our new Ozmates holiday brochure has been unveiled! It's jammed packed with a huge range of new holidays and of course a few favorites. To get your copy, just check out here: NDIS
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Finally, the wait is over and our new Ozmates holiday brochure has been unveiled! It's jammed packed with a huge range of new holidays and of course a few favorites. To get your copy, just
check out here: NDIS