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OK, as you already know, my little meerkitten brother came visiting for the holidays. And as you already heard (or read, if your read attentively) he had the most awesome present for hubby and me.

t was so incredibly awesome on so many levels that I spontaneously broke into tears when I unwrapped and saw the gift. Even my dirty-harry-hardfaced hubbylove teared up a bit (but don’t tell him I told you). And despite being still a little sick and exhausted from Christmas joy, I was too hyper to sleep until 5 AM because I was working on realizing the awesomeness of our present and the incredible generosity and kindness behind it.

I have wanted a “real” camera forever and ever. I more and more felt that my crappy point-and-shoot was not up to what I wanted to do, and I really wished for a DSLR.

Before we bought the house, my and hubby’s plans regarding this were more or less like “OK, if we save money, in one or two years, we’ll buy one”.

But then along came the house. As some of you might have followed a year ago, we were in a really stressful situation at home and had to move out. We jumped into the adventure of buying a house rather quickly, and all our monies went into it, and will go into the mortgage for, well… centuries.

So the plans of getting a DSLR went down the drain. Apart from the mortgage, this is an old house that needs repairs. Sudden surprises like mold in unexpected places eat up resources like nothing else, believe me.

Do you know when you wish for something really badly, but you know it’s just not possible, not ever will be possible? You push it so far away that it is almost nonexistant anymore.

But still, being a true friend, and doing quite our share of photography talk amongst us, the meerkitten knew all of this.

So Christmas Eve. The candles on the tree are burning, we have sung sufficiently many Christmas carols, read the Christmas Story, and now it’s time to unwrap the presents. We all are quite happy with everything: Books, some games, some trinkets, some more books. Then, my son brings to me a cute, unobtrusive box…

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It is going to happen.

Here is a link to the Worth thread where everyone will post their daily photo.

My theme will be: BOOKS!

(And thank you JohnnyTitan for helping me find it!)

Each year, the photographers of Worth share their “12 Hours of Christmas”. Each of them chooses one of the Christmas days and posts an assembly of pictures: One for each hour, 12 hours altogether.

This year, we had my little meerkitten brother over from Stockholm for the holidays. So that made, together with my husband and me, three Worthians! Of course, we had to do the challenge.

Here is the thumbnail. To view all pictures, click “more”:

12 Pictures of Christmas

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Or it was snowing the last days. Now it started to rain. Blargh. I want a White Christmas!

I know I didn’t post much. What with an almost full-time job a new (old) house begging for renovations, and a lovely family demanding care and entertainment, I feel thetime for zeh internetz is limited. And what I have, I usually spend on Worth (as well you know).

But! A time will come where you will hopefully see a post each day. Right, EACH day!

I committed to the 30 Days Photo Frenzy of Worth, where a photo will be taken each day according to a self-chosen topic. I already have my topic, and it will be fun!

We also decided to do a 12 Hours of Christmas photo series, so you will see some Christmas pix for sure. So stay tuned, photos are bound to come.