The Ghost of Christmas Past

Christmas has been, and I think always will be, my absolute favourite time of year. I adore every aspect of it, from the lights and carols to the ridiculous over commercialisation of the whole holiday. (People can complain all they want but, come on, there's nothing better than Christmas hampers like helloooooooo?!) 

I think a large majority of the magic that surrounds Christmas is due to the memories that you create each year, specifically those from when you were younger. Obviously this is different for everyone, but for me Christmas was always a time filled with so much excitement, and the adults in my life went to extremes to make it as magical as possible. (This included magic reindeer dust, fake snow footprints, letters from Santa himself, you name it they probably did it!) 

(Little Georgina and her bestie 4 da restie... of winter)

(First Christmas in Aus a.k.a 'lol why is it hot')

Moving to Australia was a shock to the system season wise anyway,  but I think the biggest shock for all of our little family unit, was how Christmas felt. The first Christmas we spent in Australia, none of the four of us were quite sure how to embrace the spirit of the season as we always had. This was partially due to us not knowing how to respond to a summer christmas, but mainly due to the lack of extended family. Going from at least ten people a year to just the four of us left us confused as to what to do with our day. 

Over the past few years we've learnt to adapt to our ever changing Christmases, and over all I'm completely thrilled that I've had the opportunity to experience it in so many different ways. This year as we're flying to the UK a few days before the big day though, we've not been able to put up a tree (I KNOW. HORRIBLE) but we have managed to mish-mash together a selection of decorations to boost the festive feel of the household.

(Mum decided to get inventive, pretty cute really)

(No but like she thinks she's dead cool for creating this)

(Weird little star shaped snowmen ???)

(Mother also decided to purchase a weird twiggy tree with lights on, which again, looks pretty darn cute.)

In summary Christmas is a bit of a weird one for our clan, but will forever be the absolute bestest. I'm so incredibly excited for spending this one with our extended family and have my fingers crossed for a little snow but to be completely honest that would probably be asking too much of English weather.

If you've for some reason persisted and read through this then I hope you have a beautiful festive season xx

Georgina Kay ♥

p.s. I know what you were thinking, 'WOW LOOK AT THOSE FANTASTICALLY PRETTY PICTURES GEORGINA MUST HAVE A SLIGHTLY DECENT CAMERA TO TAKE THOSE', and you would be 1000% correct. My beautiful parentals surprised both James and I with our presents early, mine being a fantastic replacement camera! I love those two <3