Oh how very ‘street’ I’ve become ;).
A very long overdue visit to Tasha and co today. The children all seemed fairly oblivious to the fact we’ve not seen each other for *ages* and fell straight into playing with each other. We didn’t see Davies and Toby for the whole time we were there, Scarlett reappeared briefly and spent some time with Vinnie and the kittens, but then disappeared upstairs with the boys again.
Tasha and I had a good old catch up – I knitted a hat and she crocheted one – how rock n’ roll are we?
Ady rang me about 5 times and said (among other things) he was going to Croydon. Both Tasha and I advised against it but he went anyway. I should probably concede now that it wasn’t advised against for weather conditions before anyone starts to think perhaps Tasha and I are witches performing Winter Solstice Magic and the like.
We came home and Davies and Scarlett disappeared upstairs to play. I had intentions of making some mince pies but took the pastry out of the fridge to return to room temperature and have ended up not rolling it out. I’m home all morning so will do some festive baking then instead. Ady rang at 4pm to say he’d been stuck on the Purley Way for half an hour not moving due to snow.
I did the kids some tea – everyone was having various leftovers tonight so Tarly had pasta and Davies had pheasant and roast potatoes. Ady still had only moved about 2 miles in 2 hours so I concluded tonight’s planned food shopping wasn’t going to happen. I had foolishly promised copies of the photos of Grumpy Old Man at work being Santa and was also anxious about the remaining Christmas presents for Jack, Maisie and Lorna so the children and I nipped to Tescos. We managed to get the photos, the presents for cousins, a couple of jumpers for Ady and a new top for me to wear on Christmas Day and arrived home at about the same time as Ady.
The children needed a top up of food before bed, then Ady and I got out all of their Christmas presents to compare pile sizes. We don’t tend to worry too much about money spent figuring that will even out over the years but do look for a similar volume of wrapped gifts. As ever we have already got way more than we realised. We have decided on one last thing for Scarlett which Ady will get tomorrow and we wrapped all of Davies’. I’ll wrap Tarly’s tomorrow and I have a bag of stuff for other people which I can wrap during the day tomorrow. I’m still waiting for various parcels to arrive but they all show as in transit so hopefully we’ll have them all by the end of tomorrow.
Thankfully it was leftovers for dinner for us too as we finished wrapping Davies’ presents at 1130pm, I went for a bath and Ady shoved dinner in the oven to reheat and we finally ate around 1230am. Once again -how rock n’ roll are we?! 😆
I envy you your digestion.If I hadn’t eaten at midnight I’d have to go to bed hungry! Tho tbh would never have lasted that long without a snackette anyway. Whoever has been at home has tended always to eat with Hannah so about 8pm is my limit, otherwise I’m whinging about indegestion about 2am!
Comment by Joyce — 22 December 2009 @ 8:22 am