Welcoming Christmast and New Year
Wishing you a wonderfull Christmast and a Happy New Year 2012!
Well, it is almost the end of the year again. Time flies. This Christmast is going to be our last Christmast in Thailand, as my husband working contract will come to the end on June 2012. We decided to stay in Pattaya this year, welcoming the year of 2012 from our Royal Cliff Condo in Pattaya, Now as we live in the 7th floor of the building, we can enjoy more of the fireworks show which is ussualy run from Xmast nite till New Year's Eve. We did a lot of travelling in the last six months of this year. It is good to stay at home, only the three of us. I remember we had visitors from Germany last year; and we were bussy with them. We travelled around and entertained them. It was really fun! But it is also good to be alone, to enjoy our solitude as a small family.
I welcome the Christmast and new year through decorating the rooms with some red colors, and a Christmast tree in the corner of our living room. I am not a religious person, but I like decorating and celebrating important days. Some holly days, such as Idul Fitri (Muslim holly day) and Christmast, also Easter and Halloween. Those days will make me bussy with decorating and being more creative than ussual.
I baked on those days, alone or with Nola. It was really fun to bake and forming the cookies during christmast time or else. Nola love it also! She will use her playdough plastic form to crreate some cookies in many kind of form. Off course I have my own cookies form, so we can work together with fun. The most interesting part of this celebration is when the D day come, and we can open all the presents. Most of the presents are basically for Nola. But we are all so excited to open them together, but it is still a few more days. We have to wait till we can open all the gifts!
![]() |
| Nolas with her baking project. |
The school ended on Dec 16th. Two days before, Iwent to the Christmast show at the Regent's school, and watched Nola in the show. She had some lines she should say during the show, beside dancing and singing. We did practise at home to make her able to remember her lines, and she did it very well. At the beginning, I was really worry that she would forgot her lines...but she didn't! I was proud of her. She was not too shy to perform on the stage, and she was able to articulate her sencentence loudly and clearly enough. The last day at school, they have a party. The kids came with their party dresses, and brought some food to share. I made brownies and popcorn for that occasion. I picked her up from school on her last day, then we drove home together, and started our end of the year holiday now!
![]() |
| The Hopeles Camels Show at the Regent's School Pattaya. Welldone Kids! |




























