Merry Christmas, Happy Kwaanzaa, Feliz Navidad, you get the picture! Whatever you are celebrating I hope that you and yours enjoy the time off and with each other. I will be having a fairly quiet Christmas by the pool celebrating with hubby’s family here in New Zealand. Great grandparents, family friends and Master P’s Aunts and their boyfriends. I’m looking forward to chilaxing, having a few bubbles and hopefully even more laughs.

I’ll have my camera fully charged and all my handy dandy iPhone apps loaded to take lots of family photos (I’ll post some app reviews in the new year). I have been snapping heaps of photos on my iPhone lately and uploading them to my Real Social Girl Posterous site. I figure since I always have it with me, I should get good at taking pictures with it. Have a look and let me know what you think.

Besides that I will be making some changes here. You may have noticed that the site now redirects to girlstoysrevue.com, update your bookmarks or join the Real Social Girl Facebook Fan Page for updates. This is a change that I have been thinking of making probably since the beginning of the year. With one thing or another, it hasn’t happened til now. I’m looking forward to fully updating the design and layout over the holidays. Hopefully it will be easier for you to find all the information and stories I have been sharing here since 2006 as I will be updating the categories, tags, etc…Thank you for reading, commenting and making me want to share blogging and social media information as well as just plain ole mama hacks and musings with you. I’m inspired to keep blogging and looking forward to continuing to get to know all of you. Hang in there while I work through the designs and let me know if anything is horribly broken along the way.

I’ve been in New Zealand since 1999. I spent from October 99 to October 2000 traveling, working and falling in love with a local. After going back to Canada for 2 years, we then have been back here since 2003. Its still weird for me sometimes, waking up to a bright sunny day on Christmas…without any snow. I can’t complain, I love the heat – but even 6 years later, I still find it harder to get into the Christmas spirit cause its not what I grew up with.

Here was what I used to wish for on Christmas morn back in Canada:

• A white Christmas
• Drinking eggnogg by the truckload
• A nice plastic tree
• The sound of Christmas carollers by night
• Turkey with stuffing

Now here are some of the things I wish for in New Zealand:

• A sunny Christmas
• At least one yummy seafood plate at Christmas dinner
• Good swimming weather
• To be blessed with alot of pohutakawa trees in the neighborhood (New Zealand Christmas trees, pictured above)

The one thing that remains the same is that I always wish for good times with family and friends and to have that spark in my belly that makes me excited for all that awaits me in the new year.

What are you wishing for this Christmas?

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