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Tags: xmas lunch N&L Dec 2019 wine norm&liz NormandLiz
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6565926/losing-everything-...
It's such a special time when the family gathers around to help put up the Christmas tree, but without fail, they all seem to disappear when it's time to pack it all away.
One by one I take the decorations off the fake trees branches and enjoy a moment of peace despite the fact I have a big and lonely job ahead.
The quiet gives me a moment to reflect on how special our family decorations are.
Four porcelain angels each bearing the name of our children. A funny little laminated photo of my daughter covered in red glitter made for me when she was in kindergarten. Then there is the pink angel that's now rather bald that hung on my parents' Christmas tree, a special memory from my childhood home.
Each is beyond priceless to me.
As I hold them in my hands ready to wrap and put away for another year, the TV distracts me from my memories and more images of Australia's bushfire crisis fill my lounge room with the distraught faces of those who have suffered through an extraordinary new year.
If a bushfire threatened my home, I honestly thought I had everything I couldn't bear to lose on the list of what to pack up in the car and flee with.
The kids, the dogs, mementos of my father, paintings from my aunt, cards written by the children, but I never thought to grab the Christmas box...........
As I put my Christmas box away, I remind myself once again to never take anything for granted, not even the little things.
Jo Palmer is a newsreader with 7 Tasmania.
Tags: xmas lunch N&L Dec 2019 norm&liz NormandLiz
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Electric Lego travels around a track through a tunnel!
see LEGO here..
www.bippitybricks.com/rivendell-1
and cuusoo.com/brands/lego-cuusoo
and Instagram www.instagram.com/bippitybricks/
Amazing masterpiece here..
www.flickr.com/photos/bippitybricks/albums/72157638517944544
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