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It's truly starting to feel like Christmas now. This week we've brought out our cook books for this year's baking, and we've cooked up a batch of salt dough to turn into decorations. The Christmas music is playing and we're planning our activities all the way up to Christmas Day.
Once we hit this time of year, when we're cooking and making things, and practising Christmas music, that's when I start to feel that we're getting close to Christmas, that it's actually coming, and now the days seem to be racing by and we fill our time with preparations.
Now that we've reached December and Advent, I've got my hands into all kinds of sticky messes both in craft and cooking. Our traditional Christmas music is playing non stop every day. Everyone's hiding secrets and presents, and beaming big smile. And I know that Christmas is really coming. It just feels like Christmas.
It's the feeling of excitement buzzing through the air as we talk about the big event, the music, the smells, the fun and the laughter, the traditions kept up every year, the craft and the cooking that says Christmas to me. We're hunting the three wise men, and eating biscuits, and waiting for the day. It feels like Christmas to me.
What says 'Christmas' to you? Does it feel like Christmas is coming yet?
It's nice that it feels more like Christmas in Austrailia than it does up here. In our house it doesn't often feel like Christmas until the 23rd...;/ Oh no, you made food based ornaments! ;)
ReplyDeleteAt least, when it doesn't feel like Christmas until the 23rd, you don't have to suffer long before the actual day. When do you put up your tree?
DeleteOnce our tree goes up and we break out the TSO music, it feels like Christmas!
ReplyDeleteSalt dough - always wondered what those were made of.
Practicing Christmas music - are you singing or playing an instrument?
The Christmas tree definitely helps with the Christmas spirit. And salt dough is literally just salt, flour and water. But it makes the best decorations. I sing and play the piano, so I'm practicing both.
DeleteThe colorful lights everywhere on my commute home. It makes the bland a gray cheery and bright. :)
ReplyDeleteHow could I have forgotten the lights! One of the houses on our street always puts up an amazing display of lights and decorations every year, including a blow up santa that comes in and out of a chimney all night. We love to watch the lights at night.z
DeleteMerry Christmas, Imogen!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas to you too Jeff.
DeleteNear our street, there is a house that puts on an AMAZING light show every December. Not just one, either, its every night. We tune into the radio they use, and listen to the music and the lights. Its so cool. :)
ReplyDeleteThat sounds amazing. We have a few good places around here, but I don't think we have anything that's that great.
DeleteIt feels like Christmas at our house when we start playing Christmas mucis and the Advent wreath comes out! It is feeling like Christmas here! I have just started making mince pies and Lucy my little sister has been colouring in Christmas pictures!
ReplyDeleteI hope you don't mind that I followed your blog! I found it on your sister Sophie's blog and when I saw how good it was I just had to follow!
Wellcome to the blog Lottie. I love meeting new followers.
DeleteWe've been making mince pies here too. I love home made mknce pies best. We're also planning on making gingerbread. And we start to get our Christmas feeling when our advent wreath comes out too.
Who's job is it to make the mince pies in your home? It is mine in mine! I am the oldest.
DeleteIt's my job in our house. I'm the oldest girl at home, and I wouldn't give up that job for anything! I get my sisters to help sometimes, but it is most certainly my job.
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