Had a really nice evening to see in the New Year. Scarlett suffered at the hands of my teasing father and intolerant mother and was very ratty for the last hour before she fell asleep but said this morning she was just sleepy. She made it until 11.30pm before falling asleep on my lap but …
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Counting down the hours…
Predictably my parents rang earlier and have invited themselves over this evening. Hopefully their mood will be cheery rather than maudlin. In the style of people using up food before lent we have a huge amount of eggs about to go out of date, so we used up some sausages and bacon too and had …
We’ll drink a cup of kindness yet…
Been reading the roundups of the year on other blogs and went and looked out my one from last year too. Enjoyed reading that as so little and yet so much has changed. I did an educational round up last year, to be honest although I could do one this year I have started to …
Penultimate
which is really rather a nice word to roll around the tongue I think. 🙂 Started today with the dash to Brighton to the bank. We were expecting a traffic filled journey with problems parking but in a bit of a surreal Dr Who where have all the rest of the people gone fashion the …
As the year winds towards a close…
The last day of it being not really a special day but not a normal one either was today. Monday is New Years Day so that will feel a bit ‘special’ and then from Tuesday Ady goes back to work and all starts to return to usual again. I love Christmas, but I love the …
Bored of Christmas song lyrics now :)
I worked this morning, only for three hours. The children have been going to sleep later lately which is finally having the knock on effect of them waking later. I’m sure when Ady goes back to work next week and is up at 6am with the TV and radio and all the lights on they …
Yesterday…
Monster was playing with his new camera and perfectly the art of the self timer as is Goddard family tradition. He took the following set of photos, which I know I linked to yesterday on his flickr but I want to log here as well as I was looking through them again just now and …
I wish I knew how to break the spell..
Late yesterday Davies told Ady that he *really* wanted to go and see Flushed Away and that he wanted to go and see it with me so Ady had said he’d check with me and see if that was feasible to do today. Due to both of us being paid really early for Christmas we …
And so this is Christmas…
and what have we done? Christmas Eve, which I think might even be my favourite day actually, it still has all the anticipation, but all the fun still ahead of you. The children painted a plate for Ady’s present and then we headed over to Chris and Julie’s for lunch. The children were all in …
We wish you a merry christmas
I had a plan to be blogging slightly more tonight, but the fact is, it’s just chimed 12 and the right place for me to be is in bed. So here is a picture taken today of four very excited Goddard children on Christmas Eve. I’ll be back with more as and when, but in …
An old man said to me, won’t see another one…
Very festive day here today, with a soundtrack provided by The Pogues. Ady picked their album up at the library yesterday and the children have gone mad for them so we have been listening to ‘Irish Rover’, ‘Fairytale of New York’ and ‘Fiesta’ ever since. Today we did our round of driving round delivering all …
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We’ve bought some corn for popping…
Ady and Davies went off Christmas shopping this morning together. Scarlett was pretty engrossed in Barbie.com for ages but finally decided to put on her 12 Dancing princesses film for us to watch and we settled down to make Christmas cards for Ady and Davies. She copied letters to write inside hers to Davies and …
Then one foggy Christmas eve…
I’m really tired today. I could do with a really early night followed by a nice long lie in but that’s not on the cards any time soon. I have a last few Christmas cards to deliver which I might get done in the morning, if not we’ll drive round Saturday and do it. All …
Time for singing Christmas songs…
Starting to feel really festive 🙂 And yes I know I have been feeling festive since about August, but now I can feel festive and justified! 🙂 I worked yesterday morning, it was pretty quiet but I was only there for three hours so that was fine. It was mostly standing checking books in and …
This year, to save me from tears…
Ah too late, I watched Notting Hill and snivelled all through the last ten minutes. I am such a sucker for happily ever after :). I had a really long to do list today, most of which was revolving around reading 150 pages of a frankly quite boring book for Reading Group tonight. I managed …
I’ll protect you from the hooded claw
Watched some Discovery Kids first thing including Mega Mutts which is just mad and then Cre-8 which is a fab show with loads of great film making type ideas. Tarly wanted to play Barbie.com but I peruaded her to play her Barbie x box game instead. It’s really quite beyond her and her xbox controller …
Long time ago at B&Q
We went to a party last night – a 60th birthday party of a friend we worked with at B&Q years ago, I recall us going to her 50th and I don’t think we were both still working at B&Q then. In those 10 years it feels like we’ve done rather a lot, moved to …
and a happy, happy, happy new year.
The children and I have spent most of the day on the verge of hysteria today, mostly due to possibly the most over-embellished song I have ever heard. This morning was quiet with the children doing some geomagging and then we popped to the post office to send Christmas cards before heading over to Ali’s. …
Birthdays…
Happy Birthday Abbie! Hope you’re having a lovely day 🙂 Love, Ady, Nic, Davies & Scarlett xxx
You better not cry, you better not pout…
First slight bit of work related fall out with the children today. Entirely my own fault unfortunately although of course Ady pointing that out was rather unwelcome! 😆 I got up later than I’d meant to which meant I only really had time to get dressed, gulp down a mug of tea, gather together some …