Christmas day was amazing, I had all of my kids at my house for the first time in many years. My 2 beautiful granddaughters make me so proud. It was a blessed day indeed. The gifts were wonderful but the gathering of family was the most fun part of all.

Then on boxing day, (the day after Christmas for the US Cutes) we always do the extended family. My mum and dad and my sister and seven brothers and all of their kids get together. My family is kind of interesting, there are the die-hard drinkers, which I must admit I am one, I do like a drink, then there are the tea –totals. So we take turns at hosting boxing day. And my brother decided it was his turn, he does not drink and does not really approve of alcohol, so he hosted it in a police citizens youth club. Great no problem for most of us, we just want to see our family, and I won’t even get into the “Selfish Santa “ game we play. But to my disappointment, two of my brothers made very lame excuses about why they could not be there, it was very obvious that it was because they could not drink. So most of us made our way up the coast to Nambour, about a 2 hour drive from where I am. Not on Boxing day 2010. There was a major accident on the highway that day. We were stuck in traffic for 4 hours. Some of my family who had children in the car or were going to run of petrol (gas) just had to turn back and go home. Rick and I persevered and we got there. I was so glad we did, because my brother was so pleased to see us. I am still annoyed with the family members who could not be bothered because they could not drink. I am laughing to myself though because we are seriously considering making our Boxing day get together a non drinking event from now on. Hehehe.