I have just sent this picture in an email to family and friends – and a great many of you people. We tried to take a nice family shot yesterday afternoon (my sister is holding the camera), however the children were in their witching hour moods (yes, that still happens) and refused to cooperate. So I’ve made a ‘best of’ collage; and I use the term ‘best of’ loosely. Obviously.

Christmas Card 2009

As per tradition, I am about to donate fifty cents per commenter, the postage of a typical Christmas Card stamp. That’s right, just by commenting here on the blog this year you’ve automatically helped my two chosen charities: MND Australia (in memory of my father) and Autism Spectrum Australia (ASPECT).

I am pleased to report that the grand total comes to well over one hundred dollars. Yay!

A whole lot of emails have been returned to me as ‘undeliverable’. This sometimes happens because when people type in their email addresses they a) deliberately do them incorrectly (rare) or b) they’re in such a rush they make a typing error (it’s happened to me, and I’ve only found out if I’ve looked back and spotted it). If you fall into the (b) category I do apologise if you didn’t receive it. I do still love you, too 😉

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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