How many times do you think we can celebrate Christmas? Well, so far we've had: Carols @ Jacksons Landing, Christmas dinner with friends, BookCrossing Christmas brunch, work Christmas party. Now we can add two more festivities to the list.

Over Christmas, my family is scattering to the four corners of Australia. As we're not all going to be together on Christmas Day we had a couple of events so we could exchange gifts and celebrate Christmas with the family. Last weekend we had lunch with the extended family (photos) and on Tuesday evening we had dinner with TD, Mum, Paddy, Annie, Richie and Oscar (photos).

Oscar has finally learnt the meaning of the word present. When Andrew and I arrived he asked, "nany present?" (another present?). He is a very peculiar little boy, though. After he opens each present, he likes to play with the gift... for half an hour or so. We started to open presents at 7.30 pm and an hour later we'd only managed to open a few. He actually chucked a tantrum because he didn't want to open any more presents; he just wanted to play with the ones that were already open. How many kids would chuck a tantrum because they have more presents to open? He has a whole pillow case full of presents from Mum and TD. It's going to take him at least a week to open them all!