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My little dancer

Dancing butterfly

Watching my daughter dance is beautiful.

And for a good part of last year, one morning each week, we would go to her dance class.

Dancing

It was a fun class where the children were able to try some ballet, jazz ballet, drama, singing and even try some instruments.

dance class

She has such joy in the music and movement.

She knows all the steps and could almost run the class herself (or so her teacher says) *wink*

dancer

She now has skipping down pat, makes groovy eyes and moves her hips in time to the music.

little dancer

Teddy and I would sit and watch, saying hello to friends, before joining in for the free style dance at the end *grin*

My little dancer

Then we would wave goodbye before heading to the bakery up the street for morning tea.

Such happy mornings.

Warmly, Kelly

A gingerbread house

gingerbread

This Christmas we all took part in creating our gingerbread house.

I made the gingerbread dough.

My husband cut the pieces, baked them and constructed our little house (his tip is using beer bottles to hold the walls while the icing sets).

gingerbread house decorating

Then the children set to work decorating and, of course, sampling! And as the years go by, we relinquish more and more of the decorating to them.

It’s lovely to sit back and watch them bring it all together.

And I adore looking back on the sweet little gingerbread houses we have made over the years, with their jolly little decorations *grin*

decorating gingerbread house

Our gingerbread house is dessert on Christmas day.

This year we shared it with my dad and his partner. We were all a little reluctant to break into the house… but once we did… *grin*

gingerbread house

And I’m usually behind the camera, watching, taking photos…  But this time I’m even in some photos!

(I might even try to be in the photos a little more often… we will see!)

gingerbread cottage

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.

Blessings, Kelly