Our precious little Lottie joined us, I jumped on board the WAHM train and began my Lo & Lot Creations journey and I have been in love with all of the little moments that make my life great.
The Christmas season (becuase Christmas to me is more than just Christmas day, it is the whole freakin' month of December - I milk it completely) came and went way too quickly. I had great intentions of writing a big how much I love Christmas blog post, but I think I got a little to carried away with the loving Christmas side of things that it didn't quite go to plan (not unlike my wrapping of present sessions, which started off with perfectly cut and taped, wraped with twine with a coordinating Lo and Lot Creations gift tag looped through and ended with paper that looked as if it had been cut by Willow and a tag scribbled on and slapped to the present with a piece of crooked sticky tape). Plans don't always quite turn out, but I hid the crappy ones at the back and hid them with the ones that looked the way I had envisioned. Problem solved.
The magic of Christmas was truly a sparklin' this Christmas Season, and here are 7 of the things that made me smile...
1. Our Christmas Card
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| Photos by Zanzo Photography, card design by Lo & Lot Creations |
When we were growing up Teann and I had a cassette tape of Christmas Carols by the Peppermint Candy Kids that we loved. It was Christmas spirit in a little white case. But could I find it anywhere? No. Cue Super Neighbour to the rescue with a "Do you have a good Christmas CD for the girls, because I have...." Yep, it was the one. And it got played every single day from December 1 until Christmas Day. The lyrics weren't always exactly correct - "Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh" was "On a farm it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh" and according to Willow the singing and dancing snowman at my parents house didn't sing a song about Frosty, it was "Lottie the Snowman" but we had soooo much fun singing and dancing and humming (Silent Night - Willow's favourite - odd pick I know) Christmas Carols!
3. Lottie's Jiggling and Clapping
Lottie has her own little love for music. The snowman at Mum and Dad's would start with a clap, and Lottie would start doing a jig with her big open mouth smile, clap when it finished (because that's what she does. She claps for me after most of my songs) and it would start again. So for a while she was just clappin' at toys waiting for them to perform for her. Her favourite Christmas carol was "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth"....And she got them! After having the most massive and red gummies for weeks and weeks they arrived just in time for Christmas. And all I can say is no wonder they took so long. They are big teeth.
4. Lotties first Christmas
Last year we looked like this
This year we looked like this
5. Our Christmas Tree Didn't Fall!
I had doubts over the practicallity of a Christmas tree with tempting presents wrapped up under it with a 2 year old and a 10 month old, but I am very proud to say that while the decorations seemed to all be crammed on the top half of the tree by Christmas day and Willow could point out her presents and just about everybody elses for that matter, there were no major tree or present incidents.
6. Christmas Cookies
The dough was too soft, Willow's cookie cutting missed the edge of the dough and Lottie screamed everytime I put her down and so I had ice the biscuits with one hand. But they were good. And Santa thought so too.
7. My Spiffy/Scary New Camera
My Surprise Christmas present from Mat this year was a new digital SLR camera. I have been complaining about my camera and blaming it for my terrible photography skills for ages. I am super excited about starting to use it (at the moment it is still all in the packaging - I am a little scared of it at the moment) but what will I blame my bad photography skills on now?
My new camera is PERFECT for my new years resolution. I am a complete slacker at taking photos and have missed so many of those little things that you are meant to take photos of. There have been times that I haven't used the camera for months. So my new years resolution for 2011 is to take a photo a day. Anybody else in?
Farewell to 2010. I am off to celebrate the new years arrival and with it the promise of more moments to make me smile.
