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Well done LOM! <much applause>

Yes, my mother has always been late on sending cards from Espana. It is very annoying as she surely knows how their postal system works by now! Having said that, i'd better get my arse into gear and get hers in the post too!!

Happy Friday everyone!

When I was three I was hardly me,
When I was four I was not much more!
When I was five I was just alive
But now I am six
I'm as clever as clever!
So I think I'll stay six
For ever and ever

{grin]

Hurrah a shiny new thread! Thanks LOM.

Haven't got much to say I'm afraid, I have been rushing around like a headless chicken all week and I find that when I stop and sit down, my brain has been scrambled.

RG and Loopy - YANBU but I suppose we as their mums are far more bothered than they are at this age. One of our friends (who was a really close friend BA or before Adam!) forgot his birthday this year and it made me feel sad, not so much for his sake but because it is a sign of how our friendship has dwindled. I must be one of those boring baby bores or something .

I'm out Friday, Saturday, Sunday this weekend (get me) and got a new Ted Baker dress to wear (which is actually quite warm and can be worn with thick black tights just in case you thought I was glam!), and Virgin have just delived a crate of wine so all is well with the world.

Loopy - is that AA Milne?

Greedy - I too am out Saturday and Sunday, however both events are birthday partied to which my children have been invited! a 1st birthday tomorrow and a joint 1st and 4th birthday on Sunday. Both will be lovely, and DD has a new outfit so she's happy!

RG - I am awful at posting the overseas cards (I have my aunt's in my handbag still and she lives in San Francisco so I can't imagine she'll get it much before Christmas!) having said that I did manage to get my sister's present to Australia in good time.

William is so much better now he's finished his antibiotics, which he loved! The bottle smelled like refreshers and we didn't have to bribe him at all! He didn't care for his eye drops though Hopefully we'll all manage to be healthy for Christmas this year! DD is enjoying doing the nativity play at school, all the year R pupils are villagers. DD has told me the whole story about how Mary and Joseph went to Bethany Hen! I am so looking forward to seeing the play next Wednesday, and we're allowed to take photos

Well, aren't we all socialites then?! I'm off out tonight as well - one of our regular toddler groups organises a Mum's Christmas party as well as the kids one, as we all realised a few years back that now we don't work we don't seem to have so many Christmas do's to go to! Alas I am on antibiotics now for the lurgy DD3 and I have been harbouring for almost a month now, so my plan to get the bus into town and actually have a drink have been scuppered <<sighs>> But I do have a very nice dress I got in last years' Bravissimo sale to wear

Jet - yes, it's AA Milne. Our school nativity is next week too, apparently I have an angel . Playgroup nativity was yesterday

Loopy, I didn't realise that Bravissimo also made dresses, I had a mental image of you going out in a bra .

Well, DH probably wouldn't mind too much . But a bit chilly at this time of year!!

Crikey, 10 days til Christmas!!

Loopy. V amused at the thought of you out in your undies! I too love Bravissimo. I'll never forget going to buy undies for wedding in there. the matronly assistant asked. " Is it for during the wedding , or for 'after' the wedding " You just don't get euphemism like that in Marks and Spencer.
Hope the antibiotics have worked and that you are now on the mend.
Oh - and well done on the literary reference.

Jet - great that William is on the mend. Sounds like he had a rough time.

I'm posting at 3 am because T keeps having a nasty croupy cough. Hope he's ok - it's his birthday party on Sat and we've got a really bust few days coming up.

Lots of love and festive cheer to one and all X

LOM - LOL at your Bravissimo encounter!! I have never yet managed to get into one of their stores, but they are just so fab. Hope T doesn't keep you all up too much

So Christmas is magical when you have small kids, yes? But I tell you what, it is sheer bloomin' hard work making it so!!!!!!! This week is insane, I don't think my backside will be spending any time at all warming my favourite spot on the sofa... Last night we were wrapping presents till 10pm, tonight it's the tree... And is if that weren't enough to be dealing with, we also had the Class hamster home from school last night. He had to have dinner with us, do painting with us, go to bed in the DDs room with them, come in the bathroom with us...

LOM - lol @ the freudiant (sp?) slip there with T having a "bust" day. It must be all this talk of underwear! haha!!

Loopy - awww school hamsters!! I think i only ever got to take mine home once. I used to love having hamsters as a kid. Shame they snuffed it so often tho.....

And then DD1 dropped his cage on the driveway this morning, and he escaped.....



Fortunately to dazed by the cold to run for it so I got him back

LOL Loopy! Those class hamsters must have interesting lives!

Just looked at the Bravissimo website and realised that it is not for me; my boobs are too tiny!

Christmas is indeed too much like hard work. When on earth am I meant to shop, wrap and cook for 2 sets of grandparents in addition to preparing lessons for next term, marking and most importantly of all watching Dirtgirl World with his lordship. Think I need a secretary, cook, butler and a dishwasher. Arghhhh! Oh but I can't wait to see Adam's face on xmas morning!!

Loopy!!!!! So glad you got him back!! Hope he survives til next weekend...... (lol!).

Greedy - cripes you sound uber busy!! I pity you having to watch Dirtgirl world too. I think it's really odd how they've half animated it and half used real people who look like they cant move their heads properly lol. Give me Chuggington and Timmy Time any day! (but gggrr @ CBeebies stopping these programmes from this week!).

What why is Chuggington stopping???? And Timmy Time? Dirtgirl World is terrifying! I also can't wait to see DCs faces at Christmas. We are going to our toddler group Christmas party today and Anabel is in a lovely party dress and she feels very special from the way she is prancing around. Rueben is dressed as a reindeer.

What no Chuggington - not at all traintastic.

Think it's just a change in the schedule. Bloody Teletubbies was on this morning at 8am(ish)

Loopy - Our cat ate my sister's class hamster; we never recovered.

Greedy- order everything prewrapped from Amazon. Don't prep, just spend the first week of term doing quizzes and posters about what you covered this term. If the grandparents insist on coming for dinner - go to M and S get evrything predone andjust chuck it in the oven. As it's all on foil trays you won't even have any pots to scrub.
This will leave ample time for Dirt Girl ( anyone else think it sounds a bit porno ?)
AND you'll save money on hiring the staff you mentioned.

RG - Yes , I only just noticed the freudian neglige slip when I re-read my post!

LOL @ LOM!!! The poor hamster!

Dirt Girl and what's the boy's name? Grubby Boy or something? lol. It does indeed sound tres tres dodgy!!

Yes, DD1 loves Dirtgirl World as well, I think it's AWFUL!! But the Charlie and Lola CHrsitmas special is on on Monday, so next week isn't all bad.

Last day of term tomorrow - hurray, hurray!!!!!!!!!! No more silly o'clock starts trying to get all the kids out the house

Greedy - LOMs plan sounds fabulous

We just have to work out how to put up a trampoline in the garden, on Chrsitmas Eve, after the kids have gone to bed, in the dark...

Chuggington is still on in the evening - phew, I would have had a riot on my hands here if it wasn't!! I can't stand Dirtgirl world either, their heads are too freaky for me!

LOM - I wished I'd thought of planning Christmas like that - Greedy, go with that plan!

Loopy - trampolining on Christmas eve sounds fun - though maybe a little on the chilly side! I am also loving the Christmas hols.

RG - have you had a lot of snow? We've had a bit, but it's the ice that's really treacherous. I didn't leave the house today as the kids would have been all over the place!

Well we've had a busy few days. T had his birthday in a snall soft play soft centre. He shared it wiuth a friend as we have lots of people in common. When we booked it I felt it was a bit a bit extravagant but it was worth every penny. They all had loads have fun; the adults got catch up and no tidying up afterwards.

My cousin and her hubby came to visit last night. T did massive projectile vomitting just as we were about to eat - nice. I felt a bit embarrassed until I remembered my cousin has just finished her A and E rotation where there was much worse.

Well there's a bit of snow here in the North but the main problem is ice. It's absolutely treacherous.

Glad you all like my plan for Greedy's Christmas dinner. I tell you, if we ever have the misfortune to host Christmas dinner it's exactly what I'll be doing.