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I continue the celebration in that I leave the decorations up and listen to Christmas music should the mood strike.

We're at my brother's house near Seattle for the holidays, and by his custom we opened the gifts Christmas morning. Imagine our surprise when my nephew announced "it's snowing!" while we were doing so. It lasted for about 10 minutes and then was gone.

Snow is quite unusual here, I'm led to believe. So having it appear, in big fluffy flakes falling just as we were opening gifts, couldn't help making me think of those sentimental Christmas movies where someone wants snow and it appears at just the right moment.

Mercifully, we don't have to worry about the twelve days of Christmas, apart from living on left-overs and clearing away the used wrapping paper. Since the tree never went up, it doesn't have to be pulled down by Epiphany (January 6th), which is the last day of Christmas. One of our children bought boxes for everyone in the family in which were her presents, sort of a good idea, since that is also associated with Boxing Day.

We found an Australian version of the 12 days of Christmas which goes something like this:

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me....

A kookaburra in a gum tree.
Two snakes on skis
Three wet galahs
Four lyrebirds
Five kangaroos
Six sharks a-swimming (we certainly got plenty of these this year - another sign of El Nino)
Seven emus laying
Eight dingos dancing
Nine crocs a-snoozing
Ten wombats washing
Eleven lizards leaping
Twelve possums playing
...

And a kookaburra in a gum tree.