Georgiana had a great Christmas this year. The week up to Christmas was very full with baking sugar cookies, jam thumbprints, mince pies, pecan tarts and chocolates, as well as working on making, buying, and wrapping Christmas presents. Georgie made a quilted bookmark for Abigail for Christmas. She chose the fabrics and the design, using a green fabric, red fabric and very light beige and pink fabric. To Imogen, she gave a visible woman kit - which is an anatomical model of a woman, where you have to paint all the different body organs and fit them inside the model. To Samuel, she gave a Quad Bike Lego set. To Eleanor, she gave a wooden doll magnetic dress-up set. To Verity, she gave a catapillar toy. To me, she gave a hairbrush and to Tim she gave, along with the rest of the children, Cambridge monopoly.\

Georgie got an Oregon Scientific child's laptop computer from Santa. From us, she got a 'Barbie-master-TV-chef' set. From Abigail, she got an homemade pocket doll with a homemade doll's quilt, which she loves. From Imogen, she got a Hello Kitty play cake shop. From Samuel, she got a homemade quilted eyepatch. I don't think she got anything from Eleanor. From me, she also got a new homemade, quilted stocking. She went to bed leaving out her old stocking, and when she woke up, Santa had filled her new stocking.

On Christmas Eve, Georgie went to the crib service at Ely Cathedral, where Abigail and Imogen were singing in the choir. We got to sing some nice Christmas carols, get a glimpse of a donkey walking up the isle, and see the impressive nativity scene under a massive Christmas tree in the cathedral. We went straight home from the service, and got ready for dinner, where we had the missionaries as guests. For dinner we had fish saffron soup, using ingredients that Mary and Joseph would have had in their day, along with olives, chesses, breads. We had traditional mince pies for dessert, and then had our Christmas nativity play. Georgiana was Mary in the play this year, with Samuel as Joseph. Then it was time to lay out the treats for Santa, although Georgie had done that about two days before. Somehow, finally, she and her siblings settled down to bed. She didn't wake up at the crack of dawn, either. It must have been at least 7am before she woke up.

On boxing day we went down to Grandma and Grandpa Bleakley's house in Tunbridge Wells, where Georgie got to see her aunts and uncles, and her cousin Lilly, who she had a fun time playing with while we were there.

Georgie has also started violin lessons! She started them in early December. She is loving it, and regularly reminds me that she has to practice. Georgie got sick on 12th December with a really bad temperature and horrendous cough, and she had to miss four days of school. She didn't go back until 18th December, the last day of school before they broke up for the Christmas holidays. She was a sick and pale little girls!