I’ll do a proper Christmas post soon (‘proper’ meaning ‘PRESENTS, PRESENTS, PRESENTS’), but I’ll start the day’s recap with what happened right at the end of yesterday afternoon. For anyone who’s not heard, Melbourne had tremendous storms yesterday; our patch of the city copped bad hail.

Observe! This is a view of our back deck before the storm got really bad:

Here are the kids. Riley wore that same excited expression for hours afterwards.

We have friends and neighbours who experienced damage; we were lucky to escape with just a smashed sensor light over our garage and a garden stripped of foilage. We had gutter guards professionally installed several years ago and Adam and I believe that investment saved us a lot of trouble.

Back with more later! Boxing Day, for me, is the day where I officially start to try and ‘dry-out’ after the parties and festivities. I might even go for a run.

Hail stones
So COLD under my feet!
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Karen Andrews is the creator of this website, one of the most established and well-respected parenting blogs in the country. She is also an author, award-winning writer, poet, editor and publisher at Miscellaneous Press. Her latest book is Trust the Process: 101 Tips on Writing and Creativity