Watched some Discovery Kids first thing including Mega Mutts which is just mad and then Cre-8 which is a fab show with loads of great film making type ideas. Tarly wanted to play Barbie.com but I peruaded her to play her Barbie x box game instead. It’s really quite beyond her and her xbox controller abilities but we managed a team effort before she’d had enough. Then we played KerPlunk (Davies’ request).
We went to Lidl first thing – I’d had their offers coming up email last week and spotted at least 3 things that I wanted for presents either for my own two or for the couple of other children I’m buying for this year so we headed off there and got everything I wanted plus a couple of other bits. 🙂 Then off to Lucy’s.
Lucy was very rightfully tired and I am less justifably but no less impatient as a result tired today as well. I’m never sure whether this genuinely makes children louder and more annoying or if you are simply less tolerant of it but Davies in particular seemed very trying to me today. We had a discussion about it tonight with me explaining that coming down to the level of the 1, 3 and 4 year olds he is playing with is not what I expect of him. Probably a bit harsh but I can’t bear full on silliness from him, particularly when it is so loud. 🙁 Anyway we ironed that out and I’m planning to do something specifically designed with him in mind tomorrow (don’t know what yet, just feel like we’ve not done anything he likes to do for a while). Other than that I suppose they probably played quite nicely really, I read some stories to Tarly, was honoured with cuddles from both Richard and Rebecca 🙂 and Lucy and I did manage a fair bit of chatting and catching up.
We left there just before 4pm and Davies played xbox while Tarly snuggled next to me and watched. They had chosen a box of cereal each in Lidl’s as they love the bizarre and seemingly exclusive to Lidl selection of breakfast cereals available there. So having snacked all afternoon, eaten bananas and carrots when we got home and therefore not being in the mood for any sort of proper cooked tea they begged for cereal instead – and polished off 3 bowls each! 🙂 I gave them a bath as it was cold tonight and a bath followed by warmed on the raditator pjs is a lovely way to start a night’s sleep.
Once they had gone to bed we set about digging out all the various presents from all the various hidey holes round the house and I balanced out all their gifts to ensure there are about the same number of things to open on Christmas morning. To them it will not matter how much the gifts cost or initially what they even are but they need to finish unwrapping at about the same time so I wanted to ensure there was a similar number of items each. All wrapped up and ready for ripping open and stashed back in hidey holes again.
Tomorrow I have some vegetarian mince pies to make to take to book group, need to finish reading the book we’re discussing and after an unsuccessful attempt at making a present I need to redo that. I’ve got book group in the evening but other than that we’re not planning to go out all day. Looking forward to it. 🙂
It was great seeing you and the time flew but, Jeez, wasn’t I dreadful to my children!
Comment by Lucy — 19 December 2006 @ 11:36 am
No more so than I would expect from someone with as little sleep as you’re getting – oh and I regularly am with far less reason 😳
Comment by Nic — 19 December 2006 @ 11:42 am
Nowhere in this post did anyone say “Hay-elp! Hay-elp!” Not a proper Penelope Pitstop reference then 🙁
Comment by Bob — 19 December 2006 @ 12:52 pm
wrong hooded claw reference Bob –
dreams are like angels, they keep bad at bay (bad at bay)
Comment by Nic — 19 December 2006 @ 12:58 pm
Christmas 1984 – hit #1 in early December and was set for Christmas #1 spot battle with “Last Christmas”, but then “Do they know it’s Christmas” came out and that was that.
“Last Christmas” is C’s mum’s favourite Christmas song, so we looked on Sunday to see which year it was!
Comment by Alison — 19 December 2006 @ 1:57 pm