It's the first day of my very long summer break (until 29th January), but I've spent a large part of the morning on the phone sorting out a few small crises at work. Also did some Christmas shopping this morning - sent a series of presents over to Brisbane. I bought them all at Myer and they box them up and post them direct to the recipients.
Harrison had another visit to Santa. Still not keen on sitting on his knee, but happy to chat and wave from the safety of my arms. We had lunch at the shops and sat next to a lovely retired couple - the man had a close cropped white beard. Harrison kept leaning over to tell him conspiratorily "I saw a man with a white beard on his chin, and a Christmas hat on his head with a jingle bell on the end. He was a very nice man and he was very big. Who do you think he was? Santa Claus!".
Speaking of lunch, I asked the Coffee Club to do a plate of ham cheese and tomato for Harrison without any bread, and they were happy to (and what's even better, Harrison was happy to eat the lot). Maybe this gluten free thing won't be too hard after all. I also successfully made mum's ginger nut recipe with gluten free flour and sent some mini gingerbread men to daycare with Harrison, and took the rest to work with some rum balls. Mel gave me a rum ball recipe based on sponge cake, so I can make a cornflour sponge and do gluten free rum balls as well. Same theory for trifle... I'll make my own stuffing for the turkey breast roll instead of buying it pre-done, and we really shouldn't be able to tell much difference with our Christmas fare.
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