Around here - Christmas Season

Here we are just a few weeks away from another Christmas.  This year is the first year in 16 years I didn't have the end of year mad rush with school events and concerts.  So far I've got all the Christmas presents for one kid for Christmas and nothing yet for the other.  I want to give presents that they actually want so it's a little hard when one of them doesn't know what that is.  There's still time to work this out and I'm sure it will get sorted in time.

My son turned 21 last week, how does that happen, wasn't it only yesterday I gave birth to him.  Time moves so quickly the older you get.  I'm so proud of both of my kids out in the world doing their thing, saving up, travelling, they are both amazing cooks and meal prepping their lunches for work.  I'm very proud of them and also the values I've instilled in them is shining through.  I'm also so proud of myself as a single Mum and raising them on the smell of an oily rag and how they have grown into such confident young adults.

I bought myself a new Breville Coffee Machine during the Black Friday sales and it's a bit of a learning curve from my Nespresso Pod machine.  Getting the right grind and timing of the pour but it's been a fun thing to learn.  My son got a fancy coffee grinder for his 21st and little coffee scales from a local coffee place that I took him too a couple of weeks ago so he's right into the perfect expresso as well.

I also bought myself two new bedside table lamps from Freedom as the ones I bought over 13 years ago were old and I had snapped one of them at the top of the lamp.  I love my new lamps and the textured base and it really makes the bedroom.  The picture below is from the Freedom website, not my room but this is my beautiful lamp.

My veggie gardens are full of weeds at the moment so I need to get stuck into that on the weekend.  I mowed the lawn last night after all the rain we had so it was quite long.  It always looks great but I don't enjoy mowing the lawn anymore.  Ten years ago it was no problem but I'm not that cardio fit so it's an effort.  I've been doing weights at the gym for the past 4 months and I'm loving getting stronger but my cardio fitness needs a lot of work so I find mowing an effort.

Teddy is loving going to the dog park every morning and is besties with another dog called Teddy and they run and chase each other all over the dog park which is great because he comes home he's tired and ready for a big nap so I can get on with things for the day.

I have so many lovely Christmas photos over the years as every December I participated in Ali Edward's Photo project called "December Daily".  Thought I would share a few of my favourites below.

Hope you are having a relaxing lead up to Christmas and it's not so crazy.