Christmas ramblings

Happy tuesday? wednesday? The best kind of holiday is one where you cannot remember the time or the date or what day of the week it is. I hope you're getting excited about christmas. I can't get excited because its all happening so fast, thus this is pretty much my life right now:

I just want 2012 to begin (a side-track from my moaning) today I did something huge. I cut my hair off-well not "I" by the hairdresser- yes my long beautiful princess hair that I have been gently nurturing for 3 years now. I'm not altogether sure why I did it...anyway, it is now a bob (a very nice looking one by the way) and I am like the princess in Tangled, who cut her hair but was still a princess afterwards.

My mother has taken it upon herself to decorate the house in such a way, that no matter what time of the day it is if you walk into our house it's pitch black with candles everywhere and silent night playing softly in the background.

Christmas always reminds me of Harry Potter [think about it, all you HP lovers, Harry Potter has awesome Christmases] In other news; I am going to Durban in 4 days! 4 days 'till I see G again [she worries about what he will think of her hair]
its time to get me and my new hair to bed, sleeptight

pastel thoughts

advent calendar time is upon us! I dont know why we dont have advent calendars all year round-it would make counting down to big events even more exciting. In the weeks leading up to christmas family life undergoes significant changes; it becomes acceptable to be found eating all the christmas biscuits that were only baked the day before, it is normal to have had at least 2 mince pies before breakfast and any tensions that may exist in the family can be easily soothed by playing traditional christmas carols. And with the addition of hot weather, it is easily the most wonderful time of the year

Today my head is filled with pastel coloured daydreams (not yet bright sparkly red and green christmas daydreams with flashing lights) this is mostly due to the skirt J made me, and my nailpolish, and the haziness outside, and tea, and innocent happiness that seems to have infiltrated my consciousness

an aside: i am in love with the new florence and the machine album. lalalala

[the christmas post has arrived]

I cant believe its over, and now i have to take down my tree, pack my gingerbread recipes away, hide the christmas decorations and find new excuses for eating vast amounts of food. Bleh.

"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful." -Norman Vincent Peale

"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year." -Charles Dickens

"Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen."-Author unknown, attributed to a 7-year-old named Bobby

"I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month."-Harlan Miller

"Sing hey! Sing hey!
For Christmas Day;
Twine mistletoe and holly.
For a friendship glows
In winter snows,
And so let's all be jolly!"
-Author Unknown
[i wish that next year, i could have a white christmas]

no i have not fallen off the face of the earth

a short post to tell you that i am, in fact, alive and that my summer-which is not even half way yet- has been amazingly wonderful. filled with roadtrips and sunshine, singing to songs we dont know the words to, camping, 2nd hand clothes stores, challenges, salticrax, laughter, deep moments, love, new places, late night whisperings, getting lost, finding our way,

weddings, rain, happiness, relying on people, panic, driving, sugar to keep us awake, marshmallows and chocolate, secrets, sleeping in petrol stations, showering in basins,

early morning coke binges, toerings, camp, sadness, love, butterflies, heat, clouds, sickness, vanilla, bestfriends, worry, phonecalls, tans, new sandals, new friends, kisses, dancing, marcels and milkshakes, photos, love, God, singing and family.

[and ofcourse christmas baking*]

3 days to go x

Venite adoremus, Dominum

You know its christmastime when the decorations start going up. Tonight we put the christmas tree up in our ritualistic way that goes something like this; my mom breaks out the mince pies and the christmas biscuits to get everyone motivated, my dad gets the tree out and arranges it while my sisters organize the decorations, i take photos, someone puts music on and we all sing along to 'rudolph the red nosed reindeer', we dress up in the tinsel and pretend that we're princesses, my parents fight about how the lights are going to be placed on the tree, after 2 hours we finally hang the decorations, we then get bored and go off with the christmas biscuits and our duvets into the lounge to watch christmas movies until the early morning.

[i wish we had snow for christmas]

I've always loved, O come all ye faithful. For our school carol services we used to sing some verses of the song in latin. That was my favourite part of the carol service.

Cantet nunc hymnos
Chorus angelorum
Cantet nunc aula caelestium
Gloria, gloria
In excelsis Deo
Venite adoremus, Venite adoremus,
Venite adoremus, Dominum

[have a magical night]

yuletide time*

decembertime! one of the things i love most about this time of year are the advent calendars. they are guilt-free chocolates for every day until christmas- and they taste amazing- so i had my first one today*

[this song has been in my head for days]
Santa baby, slip a sable under the tree, for me
I've been an awful good girl
Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonight

Santa baby, an out-of-space convertible too, light blue
I'll wait up for you dear
Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonight

Think of all the fun I've missed
Think of all the fellas that I haven't kissed
Next year I could be oh so good
If you'd check off my Christmas list

happy december

mince pies and advent calenders

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glisten,
and children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white

and so begins the season of goodwill :) it also means advent calenders and mince pies which is a very substantial breakfast*
have a good first of december x