I’m quite excited because my brother and his family are moving back to our town and for the first time in my life I get to do “the auntie thing”. I’ll be able to see the kids on their birthdays, at Christmas and get to take them to the cinema or theatre. Distance was always a prohibiting factor before but hopefully it will never be an issue again.

I really want to take my niece to a ballet and have been patiently waiting until she got a little older. She’s eight and I think she is more likely to sit through a long ballet now that she is a bit older. I’m thinking about “The Nutcracker Suite” because it is quite Christmas-y. She fell in love with ballet with the Barbie DVDs so I’m not sure yet if it is a real love or not. Time will tell. I’m the only one in my family who likes ballet so it would be nice to have someone else who loves it.