Saturday, December 8, 2007

Santa, Gymnastics, Bali and Sleep!

Saturday morning - I met Steph, Tres and Lyn at Toowong Village for our annual Christmas Photo with Santa. Not a bad photo and a nice tradition to have since we started doing it in 1998.
We had brunch there (I wouldn't say it was service with a smile), but the food was ok and the company was great.

I got home and Ben had taken McKenzie and Dominic to gymnastics and they had just walked in to the door too.

We then raced out to the Bali at Home store at Windsor as we're looking for a low line plasma tv cabinet and found a really nice one there as well as a great dining table, since ours was 2nd hand and is now falling apart!

We drove down the street and went past Karuna Hospice and they had Christmas decoration sale on (we didn't end up buying anything) but we sat in their lovely grounds and had Devonshire Tea.

A bit about Karuna Hospice:-

Karuna Hospice Service views itself as existing within a comprehensive and integrated health network, and acting as a model for community based hospice services both within Australia and overseas.

As a Buddhist based organization the Karuna Hospice Service also acts as a compassionate service model to the dying for the world Buddhist community.

How is Karuna Funded?

Karuna receives some Government funding for people who are public patients of the health services system. The remainder of our services are funded by donations from the community.

Your financial support is always valued and is vital to the continuation of care for those with terminal illnesses.

Karuna is a non-profit registered Public Benevolent Institution and is also a registered charity in Queensland. All donations are tax deductible.

Then we all came home and slept for 2-3 hours!!! Got to love air conditioning.......

And because the kids had had such a big sleep, they were still awake at 9.45pm!!! Dominic decided that he wanted to sleep in McKenzie's bed, so I think it's about time we buy his own bed!!