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 novelty ending and real life starting again afterwards bit almost as much.
I’ve been feeling a bit crap over Christmas but in waves – I think I have either the residue or the start of a cold and the vast amounts of alcohol and not proper food probably haven’t helped matters, but I have also felt amazingly tired too. So I had a long lie in this morning which really seemed to help and then I went off to do the food shopping for January. I offered both children the chance to come with me but Davies is currently in xbox heaven having tried out all of his Christmas presents games (Charlie and the chocolate factory, Cat in the Hat and Super Monkey Ball) and loving all of them, Scarlett is enjoying having Ady home so much so she didn’t want to come either. So I had a island of calm in the storm that was Sainsburys – it was chaos with old people aplenty. The car park was heaving, there were hardly any trolleys left and every aisle was packed. Fortunately they had every till open so I didn’t have to queue. Got some bargains in the reduced to clear meat so managed to get all organic without seeming to spend any extra money too. 🙂
Home for lunch and then Ady went off to get some logs, Davies painted some plaster Wallace and Gromit badges from a kit he got for Christmas which involved lots of colour mixing as the kit only came with red, yellow, blue, black and white paints. Scarlett wanted to do a fairy finger puppet kit too which involved lots of tracing patterns and cutting out felt so I did all the tricky bits then she did the glueing and assembling and glittering of them. We made two and very pretty they are too.
They then played with geomags and Barbies for a while – I love the way their games evolve and grow to encorporate new toys over time :lol:. They had tea while watching Ice Age 2 and then were both asleep fairly early tonight. We’ve had dinner and watched Bruce Almighty on loan from work (ok but nothing special – I’m so not a Jim Carey fan and this film did nothing to change my mind).
Tomorrow we have to drive into Brighton in the morning as I foolishly forgot to pay some money into a bank account that needs to be there by the end of the month and there isn’t a branch which opens on Saturdays between here and Brighton 🙄 and then I am working in the afternoon.