It's beginning to feel a bit like Christmas...

Because we are leaving Shanghai to have Christmas in Melbourne in about 3 weeks, I decided that we needed to get our Christmas decorations up early, so we could enjoy a bit of festivity in our own home!  So last weekend, yes mid-November, the decorations went up in our house!  It's lovely to have our wreath on the front door and the stockings hung.  I have added Santa and snowman cushions to our lounge, much to the kids delight.

And Didi is wearing these delightful warm and toasty handmedown pyjamas - I just want to cuddle him every time I see him in them.  And the first time he wore them, he kept looking at his arms and saying 'Wow'.  I especially liked it when he teamed them with my pink ugg boots, even though it made walking a bit tricky!!

It wasn't quite so spontaneous though, as last week with my aunt and some friends we visited a Christmas market stall in the Yu Yuan Bazaar. I know it shouldn't surprise me anymore, but the amount of STUFF is incredible!!  I bought 2 cute little glittery twiggy Christmas trees (about 40cm tall), 4 Christmas pictures - cardboard cutouts and one mantle decoration (above stockings in top picture), all for less than 100RMB (AUD15).

The best bit about the decorations is we now have Santa looking down on us from a number of different spots around the house... and let me tell you - he knows when you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake!!