Festive. And fun…

Work for me today.All day. And when I say all day I really mean all day.

Ady was home in the morning – they did some pheasant plucking (really should teach Davies Pheasant Pluckers Son ;)) and prepared the house for the onslaught of a month’s food shop delivery, which never turned up. Closer investigation by me uncovered that I had not checked back out again once I’d gone in to make an amendment so now it’s coming tomorrow afternoon instead. I think Ady is very relieved, he had a sort of hunted look about him at the prospect 😆

Dad was here this afternoon, I think it went okay but when I got home the children were both in their bedrooms having been sent there about 20 minutes previously. No one was too keen to enlighten me as to the full details of why but it seemed justified. I think it was just childish silliness but it must have been fairly extreme for Dad to snap as he is King of Patience and both children seemed fairly sure they’d deserved being sent to their rooms and said I’d have done the same if I’d been there.

Meanwhile I was at work for the day and a nice working day it was too. Tonight was Lancing’s Festive Fun evening where shops stay open late, there is fairground rides and stalls set up in the town and various other stuff. The library always participates with hot drinks, mince pies and childrens craft activities laid on for free. I worked last year and put my name down for this year without realising it was a day I was already working all day. So I nipped home, painted some holly leaves and snowflakes on my cheeks with glittery eye shadow, collected the children (and painted them similarly) and then we went back to the library. Ady was in a late meeting and joined us there at about 630pm. Davies and Scarlett are much beloved by all the library staff anyway and several of the regular borrowers were quite excited to meet them and commented on what lovely children they were. I especially liked the comment from one about how much like ‘proper children’ they looked with their messy hair 😆

I spent the last hour in the children’s library doing the crafts with them – we had snowmen to decorate, snowflakes to decorate, some colouring in sheets and a christmas cracker card to make. I was surrounded by children including one who said to me ‘I know you, you’re from Rainbows’ to which I replied ‘no Scarlett is!’ and pointed her out. Another boy asked where I’d got my holly glitter from and I said I did it myself. He said ‘but they’ve got it too’ pointing at D and S and I’m sure he didn’t believe me when I said they were my children :lol:. They had been chatting to another family about all the displays in the library when they had been saying how nice it looked and Davies and Scarlett interupted to tell them ‘our Mummy did that!’ :).

Sian and I ended up having a glitter fight and then had to hoover it all up after everyone had gone. We had a drunk and unruly man in who sat in the middle of the children’s library surrounded by all these kids making glitter snowmen and read aloud from a book for about an hour. I think almost everyone was oblivious to him but at the end he was resistent to being sent packing when we closed but eventually left.

I ran Sian and her MIL home and then had to walk round the shop in the rain to get milk as Ady met me at the door to say we had none so I finally got in just before 9am, 12 hours after I’d left.

Bath, lovely curry, wine and some TV watching and now I’m really for bed.