It’s christmas again! So soon you say but yes it is christmas again in our home.

Bozik as we call it.

The traditional orthodox christmas celebrated on January 7 (based on the old Julian calendar)

The celebrations for this christmas are much more subdued ( as we are still recovering from the last one) On Christmas eve Maksi helped make bread into various shapes (my family have always made dolls).

Then in the morning as is tradition in my family the kiddies received the baked dolls as gift.

Once we downed our little dolls we headed to church then onto lunch with the family.

Simple and lovely.

Do you have any simple traditions like this in your family?

Julia xx

I hope you all had a very merry christmas, did you?

We had a lovely christmas eve dinner at my parents place where we chased the kids around the house and talked about all the funny things Jingle got up to this year.

I’m always a little sad when christmas is over, but not Aleks he has dubbed me the christmas Nazi and is glad I will be giving it a rest for another year.

Bring on the New Year

Julia xx

Yesterday we had a spare of the moment little christmas lunch with my brother and his family who are visiting from Melbourne.

There was lots of “splash splash”, cold drinks, yummy food and laughter.

Sometimes I think these casual little get togethers before christmas are better then the actual day because there are no real expectations and we can all just relax and enjoy.

I hope you have a very Merry Christmas and Thank you so much for coming here reading my words are looking at my pictures it really truly means the world to me.

Julia xx