Granny's house , boxing day onwards...

Christmas lunch take 2

I turn 32 and get a much appreciated new blender!!!

Birthday smoothies all round

Make a wish..









New years eve with favourite friends..

We lit a paper lantern in the garden instead of fireworks and everybody made a wish for the new year as it drifted out of sight.

Now where were we?

I am finally back at a computer that works, we got back to our house on New years eve but due to a very foolish incident ( involving Bohemian rhapsody , some headbanging , a toy box , a drink and some lost balance) the computer was out of action for couple of days!

We have had a wonderful Yule , Christmas , Birthday and New year. We have seen family, eaten wonderful meals, stayed up late , laughed , cried, argued, danced, played and sat in the car for rather a long time .

The children have loved seeing all their beloved grandparents , Aunties, Uncles , cousins and friends and in general have got on with each other really well.... of course their has been the odd day where they have fought with each other from the moment they got up till the moment they went to bed, driving me absolutely potty in between!!

I have lots of ideas and resolutions that i want to try and stick to in the new year but haven't really finished thinking about them yet ( does that make sense? I want them to be things i'll stick to and that i want to do rather than things i 'should' do )

Here are some rather late pictures ( slightly higgldy piggldy as i have unsucessfully attemped a different layout) of our Yule. They're are lots more pics to follow from Christmas etc but i haven't worked out how to get the pictures off my lovely new camera yet! Some things never change!

Boiled eggs for breakfast with bucks fizz for the grown ups!

Our advent tree nearly finished.

Our beautiful season swap goodies made by the lovely Sarah and handdelivered too! They were very much appreciated although the robin has been stolen and is currently residing in a dinosaur valley!

Maya doing her Yule gift ( a little toy to sew)

We ended our day by watching a film in front of the fire. The children watched a christmas one ( forgotten the name ) that Martin had seen as a child, and then when they went to bed we ( well me ) snivelled and sobbed our way through It's a Wonderful Life. Perfect end to a perfect day.

The power of positive thinking!

I spotted it through a chink in the curtains , as i turned out the light and was kissing the children goodnight. Needless to say the children didn't go to bed straight away as Mummy had flung open the curtains and was jumping round the bedroom with glee ( a little overexcited perhaps ?)
After some jumping up and down on the bed , some looking out of the front door , some singing and dancing later we tried again with the goodnight kisses . Two little boys rushed to great me ,as i stepped outside, with shouts of ' look Mummy we found a diamond!'

The poor old chickens were a bit scared of the snow at first , although Snowdrop managed to overcome her fear to help herself to a little snack.

After we came inside the boys made some turtles from the satsumas and nuts. Its is a wonder that there were any left to make things with as we have been managing to get through a bag of oranges a day at the minute ( which seems really excessive but works out at about two a day each on average ... and they are very yummy and good for us..excuses excuses)

For Sarah and Clair

It worked ! ITS SNOWING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Snow fair!

Can I just tell you all that we have barely had more than a couple of snowflakes here and i am completley and utterly JEALOUS!!!!!!

I WANT IT SOOO MUCH.

I LOVE it when it snows, It is guaranteed to cheer me up out of even the foulest of moods.


Positve thinking is required ( there isn't a single situation where this isn't an amazing idea)

I have woken up to a blanket of snow.

Fat feathery snowflakes are twirling to the ground.

Everyone is very chuffed .

We all have a marvellous day playing outside in the snow then retreat to the warmth of the fire and eat some thing warm and hearty ( soup/ stew or the such like)



Tomorrow please..or def Yule ...or failing that ...Christmas day.... or last resort a week on Wed ( my birthday)


I do believe in snow days ...i do believe in snow days ................

Wet Wednesday

Another lovely morning spent in the park with friends , in the rain, with snacks and cocoa!

The children walked through puddles, ran through puddles, sat in puddles and my personal favourite ..crawled through puddles!

And not one panicky ( a child ! Out in THE RAIN! SAT IN A PUDDLE!!! Why they'll catch pneumonia!) overprotective parent in sight.

Incidently our wellies are still wet on the inside...

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