Ooh it’s such a festive sight here in the playroom – kids still in ‘jamas (despite long job list – see later!), Davies has found the sticky gift tags and we are all plastered in them, we’ve got ‘Let it Snow’ playing on the cd player and the kids are playing harmoniously with a puzzle track train.
Right, job list then:
1. Go to Boots for odd bits and pieces I need either as gifts, for me or to tide us over with toiletry essentials. Sorted! Got everything we needed including three of the pressies I was going to have to think of and add to the list below, so result 🙂
2. Go to post office with parcels and cards to send abroad, buy stamps for other 60 odd cards to bring back and do here (not standing outside next to the postbox attempting that with two small children!) Also done – I have a purse full of stamps to be stuck on letters later and possibly even walked to the postbox too
3. Make some Christmas biscuits to hang on the tree
4. snowspray the windows
5. entertain Julie & the twins who are coming over for lunch – this will be best achieved by bringing out a selection of toys to the lounge (dressing up was popular last week) so they are distracted from trashing the place 🙂 and maybe a walk to the park later to run off some of their energy. Done, and while this could easily turn into a toy related rant of the sort you have seen before I will swallow my crossness and be thankful that the children did their socialising and I had a chat and a cup of tea with Julie 🙂
6. Those stories for Miranda
7. That list of final pressies still needs doing, although I have had some ideas for a couple of the trickier ones and sent Ady to get them on his travels. Well I think I am pretty much there actually. I bought three more today in Boots, Ady is getting another for me tomorrow and he has got one for my Dad today, so I am considering present buying done 🙂
8. Online learning course
And I reckon that’s it. You will notice how totally unworried I am about whether the kids are getting educated or not – this is because when we are busy they seem to learn so much more somehow – Davies has done lots of writing this week – he wrote quite a long message in Tarly’s card by dictating it to me, I wrote it out then he copied it into the card, there is plenty of counting and number recognition going on with the advent calendar, we have talked loads about Christmas, various ways of celebrating it, the symbolism of various decorations, carols and songs and customs, we have done craftty stuff by decorating the house and tree and making some cards, we have done music by singing all out Christmas songs repeatedly, and they have done a fair bit of self entertaining this week too. We have done a bit of socialising and have more planned today and tomorrow and over the weekend so I am feeling as though as long as it is Christmas all the time we don’t need to worry about education any more than that!
There’s so much time to be worried; I’m unworried at this time of year too – anyway if they were at school they’d be spending all their time practising songs for the christmas show, lining up to take turns in the hall for the christmas show, christmas wordsearches, christmas decorations – only the sort of things we’re doing at home anyway!
Comment by Sarah — 09 December 2004 @ 9:37 am
Too true Sarah!
Although I think I’m going to make giving up worrying a new years resolution 😉
Comment by jax — 09 December 2004 @ 9:53 am
I’m right there with you lot on this – I have wasted so much time ‘worrying’ and becoming upset over things I can’t control at that point in time that I feel guilty about all the time spent doing that. Time (as you will know when you get to the ripe old age of 41!) is so precious that to spend as much of it with your children is so brilliant because they just say it as they see it. OK you need time to yourself as well but I just feel lost when I am on my own most of the time anyway LOL
Comment by Karen b — 09 December 2004 @ 10:06 am
I’m not sure I’ve worried that much in the whole of 2004 😉 Actually that probably isn’t really true but I am so not worried now!
Jax, I’ll believe that when I see it!
Comment by Kirsty — 09 December 2004 @ 3:10 pm