So, there we were, planning to go to Canada for Christmas and the question arose; what to do about presents? Quite early on we rejected the idea of taking a lot of wrapped presents over to Canada to open them and then bring them back again. So we took them to Glasgow instead.
We couldn't just unceremoniously get all the gifts out of our bags and rip off the paper at some random time, so we had two Christmases this year; a pre-Christmas one in Glasgow before we flew to Ontario and another one in Canada on the right day.
We bought a tree and a set of decorations on our way to Glasgow and Son No 2 and I put it up.
At home we have a very eclectic set of decorations for our tree; some that I made, some that the kids made, things we've picked up on our travels, and the occasional baubles that we have bought just because we saw and liked them. It's a wonderful record of our time together and full of memories and I love it. But every Christmas when I see trees in shops and magazines decorated in lights and baubles all in one colour I allow myself a little sigh of, well, not quite envy, but longing.
But look! the Glasgow tree almost qualifies as monochrome, as the decorations were all black and gold. And very fine it looks too
We had a mini Christmas dinner - chicken, not turkey
and this is Son No 2 opening a present. I think it must be something he had expressed a passing interest in having...!
It was fun, if a little low key, and set us up nicely for the adventure which was Christmas in Another Country.
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