Gifting on Boxing Day

This is Barbara's family or most of them with Jerry and Erin partially hidden on the left. They are the Pickering family and they are as close knit as one could ever imagine and as generous as one could ever be amongst themselves and the community. The Matriarch is Betty, behind my proud SA flag. She is an amazing 90 years old and still runs the family with love and massive generosity in spite of having to trail her oxygen tube around with much humour attached too.

The family gifts on Christmas and Boxing Day as there are too many to be in one place usually for Christmas day. So here we all are ready for handing out the Christmas gifts. Such magic to be with this family. Tim and Barb are the two on the left of the flag with their son, Ben, on the floor with the beard. he is at RIT doing electrical engineering.

Three fat meals - Christmas Eve dinner at Linda Pickering, Brunch and dinner on Christmas day at Betty's and Boxing Day Dinner at Alan Pickering and family. Too much amazing food prepared by them all. Gerry and Charlene dipped out on having a meal at their home, but it rotates each year in no particular pattern.

The 4 boy cousins here, Ben, Chad, Corrie and Cole are all engineering students or engineers and Luke is in the USAAF about to commence pilot training. amazing how their families have brought them up to attend great universities and Academy in Luke's case and be so good at what they do. They are also all great carpenters, electronics boffins and generally amazing with any handy work.

I am so blessed to have met Tim in 1986 and then be at their wedding and to get to know this huge Pickering family and be so included in all they do when I visit.

Great start to my wonderful adventure.