It has been over two months since our last coffee catch-up and life has been pretty busy.
If we were having coffee I would tell you I’m feeling a little confused. I began preparing this post as I usually do, by adding links to earlier posts. However, this time, with my new WordPress version the result is a little different. I don’t know if it’s the same for everyone or only WordPress.org blogs. My next question is can anyone re-blog my posts now as this has been a problem in the past and it would be great to have it changed.
If we were having coffee I would tell you about Berry Christmas. My sister and her family do an excellent job of hosting the event—decorating their home in theme colours, preparing gift bags for everyone and organising and preparing food. We had a great day reconnecting as a family—sharing the joys and dealing with the dramas of the past year. Christmas is definitely my favourite holiday, although because I live in a different city south of my family on Christmas day it takes 3 hours to get there. I don’t enjoy the travel but Berry Christmas was worth it.
If we were having coffee I would tell you that over the Christmas period I was initially frustrated that my blog wasn’t working because of problems with my Jetpack. I tried to fix the problem, however when I couldn’t and Jetpack staff where on vacation I decided to surrender to the moment and use my time more efficiently doing other things.
If we were having coffee I would tell you how much I enjoyed my husbands and my date to the city over the Christmas New Year period. We decided to catch the ferry into Sydney. The trip along the Parramatta River takes about an hour and it was a glorious day. As it had been several years since we had caught the ferry we enjoyed every moment. We then had lunch at a little pizza restaurant at the Rocks before spending the afternoon wandering around Sydney’s Botanical Gardens. We saw many places I had never been before. It was a great way to round off 2015.
If we were having coffee I would tell you how excited I was that my first sugar cookie Christmas tree worked out so well. I iced it a blue-purple to match our berry theme and at the end of the day most of it was eaten.
If we were having coffee I would tell you about the champagne fountain trial on Christmas Day. The science of what was the best way to do it kept many people entertained and in the end they were proud of their working efforts.
If we were having coffee I would tell you about the huge moon on New Years Eve that was as mesmerizing as the Sydney Fireworks. Unfortunately, I choose not to take my camera as I am not good at photographing fireworks—a rookie error I won’t make again. The fireworks were fantastic and our viewing place, a hill, is only a 10 minute walk from my house. While we couldn’t see the fireworks coming off the bottom of the Sydney Harbour Bridge we could see the top of it through the trees. We could also see the fireworks going off up and down the Parramatta River and from the other side of Sydney. At times it was like 360 degrees of fireworks. Once the live fireworks have ended we went home to watch the taped version on television and catch the ones we missed.
https://youtu.be/viqQGXVeb8s
If we were having coffee I would tell you how much I enjoyed the second week of my holidays being a full-time writer. I spend many hours everyday working on the last stages of editing of my book. With the amount of work I did I was hoping to finish it but no I still have work to do. It is getting exciting however, as it nears completion and the next part of its journey begins. Just when I thought I had the chapters in the right order, I decided to rearrange the early chapters again and to my surprise the order I have changed it to is my second order. I think my lesson is trust your gut.
If we were having coffee I would tell you how excited I was on Christmas Eve to win the hamper at the local bottle shop. I had gone in the draw after buying two bottles of champagne for an early family Christmas party a few days earlier. It was fun investigating my laundry basket full of goodies and deciding who to give each item to.
If we were having coffee I would ask you what you have done and how you have been since we last met. Let me know in the comments what you have been up to.
What a beautiful “Berry Christmas” family celebration! I love the color scheme (purple being my favorite color). Have you solved your blog problem yet? It looks fine to me. I had to scrap a blog recently because of a corrupted database. My hosting company insisted the problem was not at their end, but I’m still not convinced. It will take me a long time to go back and repost a year and a half’s worth of former posts, but at least I have the text saved in a Scrivener project. Happy New Year to you!
Thank you. Yes when I went back into it my blog had reconnected and I could up date and use everything at I usually do. How frustrating for you. I can’t even begin to imagine.Happy New Year to you also and may 2016 be a better year. Purple is my favourite also and I wasn’t happy that there was no new purple clothes in the shop for me to buy for Berry Christmas. I’ll have to start looking now for green for this year.
If we were having coffee I would thank you for sharing your Christmas with me. It sounds like you had a wonderful time.
I would tell you that I don’t celebrate Christmas so chose to stay home, even though my husband went to visit family. I really enjoyed this time on my own.
I would also tell you that I never buy Christmas presents, instead donating the equivalent value to charities. This year, for most of the family, I donated to fund vaccinations in developing countries and, for our little grandson, indigenous maternal health.
I would confess to not having blogged at all for a few months and to feeling guilty about it.
I would tell you about our drive this morning, scouting routes for a car rally treasure hunt. A pleasant few hours round a 200km loop (with only one wrong turn) and that I think I’ll go and blog about that now.
Look forward to catching up again.
I love time on my own especially after a really busy day at work. Ah the serenity! Donating to charities is a thoughtful thing to do. I love that you specially selected the charities in each person’s name. Your car rally treasure hunt sounds like it will be fun and I look forward to reading about it in the future. One of the problems with blogging is that writing posts takes time and often life gets in the way. I haven’t blogged a lot towards the end of the year as my life was too busy to do it justice. Thanks for the coffee as it happens I am drinking one as I rely to you. Good to see you back.
Happy New Year!! May 2016 bring you the desires of your Heart, good health & prosperity. This is what my brother Stephen and I did during the Christmas Holidays. The temps in New York were very mild. 60 degrees almost every day so we took advantage of the good weather. Here are some photos from our New York City walking adventures.
http://roamingurbangypsy.com/2015/12/27/brooklyn-historical-society-and-the-new-york-transit-museum-google-photos/
http://roamingurbangypsy.com/2015/12/26/new-york-as-holiday-village/
Happy New Year to you also. New York is up at the top of my bucket list. Unfortunately when I went into your holiday village post none of the photos are coming up. I don’t know why. Thanks for stopping by for coffee.