A work in progres.. my grandchildren working on the tree that will be out front on my porch. They did all the decorations themselves and are so proud of their efforts.
This was followed by a 'tim tam slam', another tradition. Tim tams are choclate coated biscuits or cookies and the children (and big children) nip off the adjacent corners and dip them into their hot chocolate, they suck one of the corners so that the hot chocoate fills the cookie and turns it into a hot messy mouthfull that has to be eaten really quickly before the cookie falls apart.