will blog today when it has all happened!
Yesterday was a typical day before a birthday day (Alison – remember when we stayed up til crazy morning o’clock every single time before a kids party and then staggered through them all glazed eyed and manic?!) where I had left some things to the last minute because they needed to be and others because I was just slack!
Mucho baking – mince pies for the Christmas fayre tomorrow, more mincemeat because that was the last jar from last year, birthday cakes – tiffin for up here for us four and an eggless chocolate orange cake to take down to the hall to share.
We went down to the woods to chop down a tree for the hall – Scarlett did it this time and did an amazing job of hitting it with the axe and pushing it over. Â Ady took it up to the car ready to bring down to the hall while the kids and I went back to the static to get lunch sorted.
Lots of Christmas songs all day, feeling very festive.
I walked down with Ady to the car to collect our newly arrived mattock just before it got dark as I was feeling a bit caravan-bound and it had stopped raining / sleeting / hailing / snowing briefly. We fed the animals and then came in for the night. I then had to sew a toy hamster which had arrived in kit form a couple of weeks ago but I’d not found time alone to make. I shut myself in the bedroom with it but it was getting dark and it was baltic in there so after about an hour I couldn’t actually feel my fingers any more so I brought it into the lounge and did it covertly. I took way longer than I expected but does look very much like Humphrey (while still alive!) which is what Scarlett wanted.
Christmas dvds were Simpsons Christmas specials and Merry Christmas Mr Bean, I think I prefer actual festive films to the TV specials, next year we’ll get more films I think.
Pizza for dinner, kids to bed, I wrapped Scarlett’s presents – a Hudl2, case for it, playmobil swan, the cuddly Humphrey, a mini whiteboard and some stamps for her stamp collection. wrote a birthday message on the whiteboard wall in the bathroom and was just about in bed for 151am which is when she was born.
and now I’ve learned what a mattock is 🙂
Comment by mich — 07 December 2014 @ 3:11 pm
PS Happy Birthday to Tarly girl xx
Comment by mich — 07 December 2014 @ 3:11 pm