By Jeremy Lister
On the weekend we had family from all over Queensland come and stay with us because my baby sister Amelia was being baptised. Nana and Papa came from Townsville and Grandpa and Nana T came down from Hervey Bay and a family friend called Bev came up from Brisbane. And Nonna and Dan Dan already live here so they were here too of course.
Amelia was baptised by Alan at the church in Liston which is just over the border in New South Wales and we went to the Liston Hall for morning tea afterwards and that was the best part of course. Amelia looked lovely in her special dress and she behaved really well even though babies usually cry a lot when they get baptised. We just gave Amelia a little dummy to chew on and that kept her happy. I think she likes it when there are lots of people together around her. William and I got to hold Amelia and mum took this photo.
After the baptism we had William’s birthday party at our place. William turned eight back last month but because we all had COVID we had to put off his party until the weekend. All of William’s grade three school friends came and they had pizza and lollies and a North Queensland Cowboys birthday cake because William supports them. I support the Broncos of course but because William was born in Canberra when mum and dad were in the Air Force down there he has funny ideas about which team he should go for.
