Each year we
usually spend Christmas with my family in-law in Perth. It’s a joyful, spirited and rather large
event, with a growing number of members as children are born and partners are
introduced. We number about 30 people
if we’re all present, and usually share the catering between us with a
different host family arranging the lunch or dinner. Having our two kids at these Christmas celebrations
has been great fun – the family love to shower them with presents and
affection. Christmas is much more
magical with kids around who are so enthusiastic about Santa’s visit and
express their happiness and wonderment in such an uninhibited and pure way.
This year we are
going to spend Christmas with my immediate family in Melbourne instead, and I’m
so excited about it. I haven’t spent
Christmas with my Mum, Dad, sister and brother for over 10 years! So, it’s definitely time to do it,
particularly while the kids are young. I’d
love for my parents to relive the magic that Christmas brings, which they haven’t
experienced since we were children.
Because we’ll be
away, I wanted to give extra special gifts for my family-in-law; gifts that were
useful, thoughtful, creative and didn’t cost the earth – being so many people in
number. I found a terrific idea from Cath Armstrong
who writes a magnificent blog that I follow called www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au
. Cath had some suggestions for home-made
Christmas presents and one of these was to produce a family recipe book. What a great idea! With so many celebrations we have shared
together over the years, we’ve been spoilt by all the wonderful dishes we’ve
shared. And we all have our favourities
both to cook and to eat.
Cath’s blog can
be found here http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2014/09/100-days-to-cheapskates-style-christmas.html
.
Last weekend I
requested recipes from all members of the family and I’m waiting in
anticipation for these all to come in. Will people share their secret recipes for
some of the dishes I’ve requested of them?
I hope so! My plan is to have the
children create some pictures to include, which I’ll scan into the document so
that the whole recipe collection can be printed and bound. I might even put the individual sheet
sleeves into a display folder if I can find some nice ones, to protect the pages
from splashes when cooking.
I can’t wait to
put it all together and see the finished product. I hope the family enjoy them!
Do you have any
home-made Christmas gifts you’re currently working on? I’d love to hear your suggestions, so send me
a post or comment below or you can email me at livewelllivesmart@gmail.com .
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