A ’54 convertible too, light blue

Hey, it’s DECEMBER!!!! 🙂

Deck the halls, open the advent calendar and break out the chocolate liqueurs and brandy snaps!

Had one of those days when it all felt a bit bordering on the hysterical today, I get them sometimes. I’m sure if things had been different I could have been a manic depressive, instead I am a manic normal! 😆

The post brought a couple of board games of Flushed Away which we gave Davies and Scarlett. They included various characters to use as counters which required colouring in so they did that. I cut out the various bits and pieces for them including little dice to make. I made the dice and they spent ages playing with them throwing them at the same time to see who threw highest. Realised that actually Tarly does indeed recognise numbers 1-6 (the dice had numbers rather than dots) during this – I suspected she might but she kept denying it :lol:. Thanks loads Bob for the link about the game – we’ve yet to play the actual board itself but it certainly kept them entertained for a long while this morning – oh and Davies read ‘Sid’ and recognised all the words along the bottom for ‘Wallace and Gromit’, ‘Shrek’, ‘Aardman’ and ‘Dreamworks’. 😉 :).

Finally got them dressed and we headed off over to Ali’s. We collected together a handful of Christmas cds to take with us in the car – it will surprise noone that we are well stocked with them 😳 ;). Tarly is really into ‘Santa Baby’ and wants to learn all the words. I am torn as I have this barely hidden part of me which could so easily turn into pushy US Mom dressing her in frilly flounces, rouging her up and giving her a real Britney training style of childhood – I’m guessing I’ve already failed if that was my plan though as she is hardly likely to be compliant to such crazy notions, and let’s face it she doesn’t need to bother with the child star fame bit as she already has the drink habit! 😆 So we did lots of very loud singing along and in car dancing to festive tunes including me welling up at ‘when a child is born’ just like I did along that same stretch of road pretty much this time last year.

Had a lovely time at Ali’s, there was pesto pasta (which Tarly decided she ‘loves’ and ate most of mine :roll:) and chocolate and chatting and tea and xbox and zoombinis and lego train track and My Little Pony and the odd sudden yelling of one person to be joined in with by everyone else of ‘it’s CHRIIIIIIIIISTMASSSSSSS!’ just for fun. 🙂

Ali and Davies and I played Mastermind for a bit which was cool, and made doubly tricky by a lack of pegs meaning we had to keep nicking them from the row above. 😆 then we drove home again in the dark singing more Christmas songs.

Tea and early to bed for the children, wine, bath, dinner and late to bed for the grown ups. Which is where I’m off to now.