Our Teddy Angel
What a year!
Firstly, seasons greetings to all you out there who have read the blog and listened to the podcast during the year. Without all of you to urge me on via comments, likes, personal emails, and iTunes reviews, I may have thrown in the towel a while ago.
Regular Blogging and Podcasting does take a fair bit of time out of my week, but I still believe that it is so very worthwhile. Not only is it personally satisfying, but it has helped build a community of like-minded people who I just enjoy interacting with, as well as becoming a massive archive and knowledge base of our journey towards a more sustainable lifestyle.
I have mentioned a few times that we were going to have a very modest Christmas celebration today which was entirely focused around family.
We kind of had two celebrations today, one at breakfast, then one for dinner.
Breakfast was croissants, ham, and cheese with fresh fair trade coffee. Kim, Ben, and I gathered around our modest tree and shared our presents. There were only a few thoughtful gifts, mainly clothes for Ben as he is a growing lad, and a Sodastream. We do like the occasional fizzy drink, so decided that we would produce no more waste in this area of our lives. You get to reuse the same bottle over and over and can get the CO2 cylinder recharged or swapped.
Our tree
Then we headed off to our daughter Megan’s house for lunch, which was delicious and played board games with Amy, Lawrence, Megan, and Jake. We had a ball.
Back for a nap, then a Skype call with Adam, Sina, and baby Emily in Germany.
What a great day. No consumerism necessary to have a brilliant time with family. As I mentioned in podcast episode 091, you don’t need to buy your family’s love. You just need to be present and in the moment. I love and treasure all of my family, and had the best day ever!
Hope you had a great time today and celebrated in your own special way. I will be back to regular posts next week, and Kim will be joining me in our end of year wrap-up podcast episode that will be published soon. That should be a hoot.
Take care one and all. Love and hugs to you and your family, and thanks for dropping by for each and every post!
Merry Christmas from Columbia Missouri USA!
and a Merry Christmas to you and your family Debby!
Happy Christmas to both of you, Melindi
and to you and your family Melindi!
and I’m celebrating extra too. I have just bought a house on 1 1/2 acres outside Pomona (Northern part of sunshine coast in Qld) and move in during Feb!
That is fantastic Melindi. You will have a blank canvas to work with. You could make an amazing subtropical food forest in that climate! x
Season’s greeting to you and the family as well Gav.
I agree that one of the nicest parts of Christmas day is that pleasant snooze after lunch 🙂
(or maybe that’s just a sign of age :o) )
The other thing you forgot about you blog is that it keeps people like me on our toes and pushing that little bit harder in our efforts as well.
Here ‘s to another year of saving the planet, one blog at a time 😀
Cheers
MOC
Season’s greetings to you and your Mick. The nap was amazingly refreshing. Must be because the Grandpa genes have kicked in 🙂
Hi Gavin,
Thank you for urging me on, the saying out of sight out of mind, is so true, you help to keep things in sight
by sharing what you do which inspires us to give it a go.
Have a great day
x Theresa
No problems Theresa. x
Merry Christmas to you and Kim and family and many thanks for all the wisdom and ideas I have learned from you this year. Keep up the great work! Our planet needs you!
Cheers,
Nola Kontjonis
Merry Christmas to you and your family Nola. x
Keep it coming Gav! You do inspire much thought and many actions. 🙂
Merry Christmas to you and yours. Glad to hear you had such a wonderful day. 🙂 xxxxx
Thanks Jessie. Love to you, Martin and the kids xox
Great minds think alike, we bought a family present, a sodastream for those exact same reasons. Tom has always liked his water fizzy and i was sick of buying water. Crazy! Now he is making his own and we also managed to make some diet fizz for Maison yesterday that suited his Type 1 diabetes. Even better you can choose how strong the flavour is and how much fizz. I wouldnt expect anything different from you guys than a Christmas centred around your wonderful loving family. Love is priceless and cannot be bought.
Cheers Lynda. We think that the Sodastream should pay itself back after about 40 bottles. A pretty good investment, and we have just been using a couple of syrups and cordial to flavour the drinks. It works well.
Hello Gavin. It sounds like you had a lovely Christmas shared with your family both in person and over the wires. I have enjoyed your posts and podcasts over the year but don’t always comment so I thank you now for continuing to keep us informed.
My own family are scattered with brothers and their families in the UK, but I am lucky enough to have both sons over here in Brisbane. I feel very lucky that in these times when the globe seems to get smaller and smaller that my ‘boys’ have settled here in Brisbane where I can keep an eye on them as they are only in their 40’s. Fortunately my daughter in law helps with this too.
Happy New Year to you and yours Gavin and all the best for 2015.
You’re most welcome Jean. It is great that your boys have settled close to you. It is great to have family close by. We do miss our son Adam, who settled in Germany, but we have Skype so that will have to do. All the best for 2015 Jean. x