Winter Fun

Well first off all, Merry Xmas to you all!

Today, at the ripe old age of 22 ( :-) ) I went sledding for the first time! When he was in high school, Colley pinched a couple of road signs (naughty naughty) and he's kept them ever since. Together we built a sled out of them (well he supervised and I tied it all together lol). Theres a nice steep sloping hill on the playing fields near our house and we took the sled there with the dog. On the first run, the bottle of water we used to weight it and curve the signs round at the front came off and Carla ran away with it.

It actually worked just as well without it as it did with it so it didn't matter. I never realised that sledding could be so fun! The rush of adrenalin and excitement as you go shooting down the hillside, and in my case, falling off the sled and skidding across the field at the bottom on my back and getting snow down the back of my hood.

I couldn't stop laughing and just kept wanting to go again and again. Even Colley had fun. He ran at the sled and went skidding. We weren't out for long as it was so cold, but so much fun. There was a bloke on the same hill practising snowboarding. We all figured the same, if we're gonna have so much snow we might as well have fun in it!

What I was surprised about was that there was absolutly no kids outside. No one but 3 fully grown 20-30 somethings playing in the snow. Snow can be great. Snowball fights, building igloos or snow walls and snow men.

I'm actually feeling christmassy today. It may be because we're going out tonight. Everyone's heading down to JB's for what may be their last xmas eve bash. I had so much fun when we went a few years ago and we're not missing this year.

Christmas has made me think about traditions. Every family has different christmas traditions and they're so varied. We're spending christmas this year at home with Colley's family. Their tradition is to get up at any point, eat xmas dinner at his uncles, and go to the pub. My family's traditions include getting up early, eating brekkie before opening presents. Xmas dinner is eaten at nans or my aunt's, we play games in the afternoon and watch crummy xmas tv.

But thinking about all this lead me to thinking about what I would consider to be my perfect christmas. I'd love to spend all day in my PJ's. Get up about 7-8ish, eat brekkie, open presents (the way I've always done it growing up), and slouch about all day drinking, eating and watching new dvds, and playing with all my new goodies. But where would this perfect day be? I'd love somewhere quiet and homely, snow outside and a fire inside, snug and warm on a comfy sofa with a thick blanket, Colley and Carla. I'd love all this to be in my perfect house, which I havent found yet and have no idea where this could be. Christmas should be a day when everyone stays at home. Nothing should be open, no-one working, but everyone happy at home.

What about you? Where and what would your perfect christmas be?

Hope you all have a good holiday anyway, enjoy the unusually seasonal weather. I'll speak to you in the new year!

xxx