Saturday morning I worked. It didn’t feel much like work to be honest, I was very much in holiday-mode and as there were plenty of staff in I was given the whole four hour shift to mess about with various displays. I put up my 12 days of Christmas display, which I’m pleased with, it looks nice and colourful. Then I did a display with some new book bags that had come in in various colours. There is some prize to be won for the best display of them in any library so I did a display making a christmas tree shape with the green ones, photocopying and reducing the pink ones to make baubles and putting various other coloured ones underneath as presents. It looked pretty good :).
I came home and the others were watching Christmas songs on TV and doing some Christmas activity books Ady had found kicking around. As me finishing work meant we were all officially on holiday now we decided to call ‘Christmas’ and as Ady and Scarlett were off shopping for a few bits I added advocaat to their shopping list. They were gone for ages getting some plumbing bit as something had gone wrong with the vanity basin in the en suite upstairs. They came back with that bit, Ady fixed it and they went back out again for the food bits.
Meanwhile Davies was busy with some new DS game (Drawn to life, next chapter or something, you get to design your own characters, both the kids love it) and I made a start on baking for camp. I had a false start on Scarlett’s birthday cake (which is now chicken food!) and did the now legendary rice crispie cakes.
Ady and Scarlett came home and I got kicked out of the kitchen so Ady could do the kids tea so Scarlett I and retired with snowballs and it all felt very festive 🙂 I sat and wrote out some Christmas carol lyrics on big poster sheets and then went off for a bath before watching X Factor. Ady cooked steak which was lovely. I was persuaded to go to bed very early ;).
Sunday I’d ordered our Christmas cards online at Costco yesterday so we needed to go and collect them. We also wanted to get a few bits for camp too and thought the hours drive would be worth it. Thanks to very heavy traffic it was more like 2 hours but we had Christmas music in the car to singalong to so all was well. Costco was very successful and we got a turkey crown and a massive box of Christmas crackers at bargain prices. The journey home was without hold-ups and we got in and I started roast dinner and baking. My Mum rang to ask if we were home as they were passing so they called in for an hour or so which put paid to any further baking but I had got Scarlett’s cake done.
Mum and Dad left and we sat down to roast chicken dinner which was very nice if I do say so myself ;). The kids were being really well behaved and cooperatively playing their DSs so we let them stay up longer while we had baths and I disappeared back into the kitchen for further baking. Managed to cook flapjacks (very nice but a bit gooey, hoping they will firm up overnight) a secret santa gift which I’ve never made before but seems to have turned out well and flapjacks to go with the rice crispie cakes. Am also planning on baking some mince pies but I’ll do them up at the hostel as they are far nicer fresh from the oven.
We’re all really looking forward to the week 🙂