Okay aussie mnetters - what are our plans for Christmas.

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It is supposed to be a stinker here Christmas and boxing day - low 30s but very very high humidity - storm christmas night and boxing day.

This sat - taking probably only dd2 to a carols by candlelight - dd1 is having surgery tomorrow so probably not risk taking her out.

Christmas Eve - go to aunt's for dinner - fab food, good company and dds stay up with us til wee hours of the morning

Christmas Day - lunch at my mums with bro and sil.

Away weekend of new years.

How bout you??

my heart bleeds ((Liesel searches for her de-icer)))

ha ha - poor dh - just can't get used to Christmas in Summer

It's our first family Christmas in Oz so I really want to make it nice, but I'm having difficulty taking the whole thing seriously. It feels like Summer holidays (which it is of course), but not Christmas which is a shame as usually I LOVE Christmas. I've just bought DS1 a sufboard as his main present FFS!!!!

Christmas Eve we'll find some kind of kid-friendly church service then home for a barbie. Christmas morning has to be the beach (even though the forecast in Sydney is crap) with some friends. Home then for a chill out day and late Christmas lunch. I'm quite pleased in some ways that it's due to be cool here so I can do the full traditional turkey and stuff.

We have no family here which is fine, but I really miss my friends. Usually there's a big get-together on Christmas Eve with champagne swilling adults and gangs of kids who have known each other forever I know my kids will really miss that this year.

Although it is my 6th southern hemisphere christmas it has, yet again, crept up on me

We are going to NZ on Friday, spending 2 days in Wellington, then off to MIL's [eeek] on 23rd until 29th.
Am meeting up with MrsJC on 27th and am really looking forward to that.
Off to Queenstown for NY with friends then back up to Auckland to stay with friends then back to Melbourne on 7th Jan.
Phew ... a whirlwind trip!
MIL rang the other day to check about food.
"Will Ham and Salad do for Christmas dinner?"

We are going to my parents on Saturday for about a week. I plan on doing as little as possible....

DS will only be 15 days old on xmas day so that is my excuse for doing nothing but eating, sleeping, relaxing...

My Mum has planned a BBQ for nearly every day that we are there and is inviting every relative I have. This is the 1st xmas in about 8 yrs that I have been in Oz so I have some catching up to do. Plus I need to show off my gorgeous DD & DS...

DH is also having trouble adjusting to the summer xmas and grumbling a bit about the rubbish TV, too hot, no rain/cold/snow/dark afternoons etc.

No plans for NYE...

Same as last year here, lunch with the IL @ their house!

Meeting up with friends for a morning on the beach on 23rd.

Nothing else planned.

sunny delight - the rest of your lives to make new friends with gangs of kids to run around mad until someone pukes

ghosty - what is wrong with ham and salad for chrissy lunch - fab leg ham - yum!!

ah well at last 6 weeks in aus and we have broad band. life again will return to normal. christmas in our new pad will probably be a quiet afair. my DH sounds like yours super loopy. his plus list is that he can wear chinos and a polo shirt to work instead of a suit. this was then downed by the impending first business trip to the atherton table lands! in january... hot and humid still bris will seem cool at weekends!
the down list is almost dito. tv may improve .... or not.. foxtel coming on the 29th. so we will see.
christmas day we are having beer can chicken and roast veggies. done on the barbie. been invited round to the neighbours next but one for a drink so that will be good. i figure all old frienships need to start somewhere. This time next year we may be inundated with old friends as three lots have strated inroads to move to bris! will then have the best of both worlds.
so that is about all for our little lot. may have a spin up to bribie on boxing day and go for a dip at woorim.

Well, I shall think of you all huddled around your barbies as I relax on my fijian island!!

((Then of course I have to fly home to cold wet England my Aussie sojurn will be over!))

Off to buy another bag ad say more farewells.

Watch out for the sharks!

Our first chrimbo in Oz will be a quiet one as no family out here & I'm getting over a few days in hospital courtesy of fibroids trying to get the upper hand over baby in terms of remaining space in utero.
We got Foxtel the other day - amazing how with so many channels there is still nothing you actually really want to watch! Hoping broadband will be fixed up soon so we can do webcams with people back in UK for christmas.
There is a christmas street party in our street tonight - I am making 70s style cheese & pineapple hedgehogs! (if I can stop scoffing the cheese)

Hi there

I have never posted on this thread before - didn't even realise there was a forum for overseas mums but I am looking for some advice...

I am preggers with our first child and terrified as we started the process to emigrate to Australia earlier this year (obviously before I found out I am pregnant). We stayed in Melbourne in 2005 and decided to emigrate if we ever got the chance. Now we are just waiting until March when the baby is due to have our final medicals and send them off to the dept of immigration via our agent.

I noticed from Ghosty's old posts (totally coincidentally when I was searching the mumsnet boards) that you moved to Melbourne a while back (or mentioned that you were) - sorry I dont mean to sound stalkerish!!!! Honest!!! I am just wondering if you would all recommend moving over to Melbourne with a new baby (we are told we can wait until early 2009 before we have to actually get to Australia) and what your general advice would be regarding the situation?

I wake up in the middle of the night occassionally on the verge of a panic attack about emigrating. The rest of my current nightmares are taken up with fear of giving birth and various bizarre nightmares of varying degrees that must be pregnancy related and are waaaaay to weird to go into...

Anyway, sorry for jumping into your post and I hope you can help me....

Thank!!!