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Christmas Dinner

Is Christmas really over?

I’m out of the habit of blogging regularly and finding it hard to get inspiration… so I thought I’d do that old trick of just typing away – stream of consciousness like – and see what happens.

I love hosting Christmas but I also love my house back to normal the day after Christmas after all the empties have been taken out to the recycling and the dishes finally done, extra tables hidden away and the crunchy floor cleaned.

In the days since we’ve been chilling out the back lolling on the couches under the patio we built last year, occasionally jumping in the pool to bring down the core body temp (it is over 40 every day for the next four), lighting the candles in the evening and enjoying the odd glass of wine.

It’s been lovely having my brother and his family to stay too.  Their little one is uber-cute.  Just the cutest 3-year-old ever.  And even though I know I’m going to be approached again and again to play animal matches, or go for a swim, or watch the spelling game stars I don’t care because she is so adorable.

They’ve gone down south for a few days now and the house seems strangely empty.

This year we did a couple of things to encourage “groupness”.

Groupness is a term I picked up from a facilitation course this year.  Basically when you have a new grouping of people it’s important to get them to interact quickly and share.  Sharing is more likely if the peeps feel part of a group.

Groupness can be created in any number of ways…

For example… name tags… not really appropriate for family dinner…

This year we did souvenir holiday teeshirts designed by my artist brother…
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Me modelling the holiday tee

And a dancing video.

If you’ve seen Where the Hell is Matt? you will know the inspiration.

I asked my invited guests and extended family that weren’t coming to the evening to send in snippets of video of themselves so that I could mash them into a video to play on the night.

That way peeps who couldn’t come would still be part of the group… and those who were there would feel part of the group – having gone through the shared experience (pain and humiliation?) of dancing in public.

I guess I’m an extrovert because I loved doing the dancing videos, others felt it wasn’t such a cool thing, but everyone sent something in.

Unfortunately I ran out of time but I delegated (another management technique) to my niece (not the 3-year old) and the video was lovely.

Even the too-cool-for-school teens admitted it was fun in the end and I think – should I ask them to participate in one of my crazy groupness exercises next time – they might find it easier to say yes, lets!

UPDATE: Here is the link to the video. 🙂

OMG.  I’m at the end of a post and I had something to say after all.

Maybe the habit is stronger than I thought…

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I danced after I watched this

Once again, I may be the last person on the planet to have seen this clip but even if you’ve seen it before it is worth watching again – just for the sheer joy of it.


Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo

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And marvel at the brilliant idea behind it. Matt’s a clever boy.

Dippity, Extracurricular, Groover, Hugamuga

Day 7

Observation: It is a lot easier to stay “on plan” when you don’t eat out. Yesterday I had lunch out with my MIL and the kids and had a salad – unfortunately drenched in dressing. I did take off the parmesan shavings (not mentioned on the menu) but ate the dressed salad. How bad can it be after all.

Except that I forgot to take the tablets. Anyway maybe that doesn’t matter, My friend Ant says she’s done the detox without the tablets, with the same effect so…

In the evening I went out to the golf club for a dinner dance. More fun with a partner these things as the music doesn’t really lend itself to a bunch of girls on the dancefloor. Not that we let that stop us! The food was amazing. And I’m counting scallops as fish, and also the barramundi as fish as it is actually fish. I skipped dessert, cheese course and all wine. And forgot the tablets again.

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Groover has been off fishing which has left me in juggle mode but the grandmas have really helped out A LOT, especially mum who had the kids on Friday night and Saturday night. THANK YOU! Right now Hugamuga is off at a party and Dippity is down the beach with a friend.

I know, it’s August! Crazy child wouldn’t take a wet suit either. They just don’t seem to feel the cold. When do we start feeling cold? I can’t ever remember not finding water cold. Swimming lessons were awful in all those unheated pools… not to mention those ones down the beach… brrrrrrr. Maybe my kids have inherited a polar bear gene from somewhere.

I should be out exercising as I missed gym yesterday but I’m just too tired. I know, I know, exercise will give me energy but I’m just not sure I can face it. Lovely weather though.