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Christmas was always an exciting time for me, I used to love waking up early and sitting eating the treats from my stocking and watching the terrible Christmas cartoons that used to be splayed all over the TV on the lead up to the big day. A sugar breakfast and kooky cartoon characters finding the true meaning of Christmas, what could be better?

 Our family was not a rich family. We couldn’t afford to shower each other in abundance with big and expensive gifts. So my mum used to buy us lots of little inexpensive gifts and one big one, but then she would do the most awesome of things. She would hide out presents and give us hints to where she hid them. It was our Christmas hunt and it made Christmas that little bit more exciting.

 Originally, mum started this tradition to extend the excitement of Christmas and spread out our presents. But now we do it every year! The hunts started when I was young and my brother used to have to help me with my clues. But they did bring us together as a family and made Christmas fun.

 Mum made our hunts a little bit harder each year and she tried to focus our hunt on what we were learning at school at the time. She liked knowing that it was educational. My brother was exceptionally smart and mum spent weeks preparing his hunts, trying to make something that will actually stump him. I used to feel so proud when I had solved my puzzles on my own and found my present.

 When I got older, I started making Christmas hunts for mum. It was really tough trying to create something difficult enough for her. She loved the hunts I made for her. She still has them all in her memory box.

 I remember one year mum wrote the whole hunt in Japanese using a translator on the computer because both my brother and I were studying Japanese. However, what she didn’t know was that what she had given us was so complex and written in Kanji (Japanese picture words) and we couldn’t recognise any of them. So mum had to sit with us and help us through the whole thing, looking at her hard copy, because she herself couldn’t read Japanese. All in all it was a mess, but as always fun.

 Our Christmas hunts were so exciting! We looked forward to them all year and it is now a family tradition!

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