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[justme-victoria]

42 Gifts For Family History Buffs | Holidays 2023

T-minus FORTY days until Christmas!! Last week I shared my annual gift guide, comprising of a whopping EIGHTY-SEVEN gifts, but I left out a

[emmalina]

Preparing for Congress

It has come around so fast!! Congress begins this Friday, to be honest it hasn’t hit me yet! It’s definitely going to be a week of firsts as I begin my Masters of Teaching (Secondary) this week as well. In preparation for Congress, I got some cards made up about a month ago using Vistaprint: I’ve been keeping an eye on all Congress related communications, whether it be via Facebook or email and…

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[genealogically-speaking]

Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories - December 1st

I'm participating in Geneabloggers Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories. There's a prompt each day from 1 Dec - 24 Dec. While my responses are going to be in video format, I thought I would post some photos or other things relating to the prompts. ---- The prompt for the 1st of December was Christmas Trees. Here's some facts about my Christmas Tree memories.

We never spent Christmas at home until Christmas of 2011 (with the exception of Christmas 1996 or 97 I believe).

We were either in Sydney or Texas for Christmas.

When my brother & I were little we'd put up our Xmas Tree before we went away, usually early-mid December.

When we got older Mum decided there was no point, we put one up in Sydney anyway.

Our tree is fake.

Most Australian's have fake trees.

We didn't put up a tree this year.

We may have left it up all year since last Christmas...we just never got around to taking it down.

It's near our front door, so anyone who looks through our front door can see it. People probably think we're a bit odd, haha. Or that we just really love Christmas.

We just need to change a few of the decorations.

Here's a picture of our tree.

And yes, we're changing the '2012' decoration. :P