Lovely December FLY thread, for Wendys baby to arrive on

[Jas]

Hello.

I am a rubbish FLYer again, lately, but keep checking for the birth announcement.

It will definitely be on this thread somewhere....hopefully near the beginning!

Good luck Wendy

Ds2 did that on Christmas Eve when he was 2. "Father Christmas is bringing me a yellow truck". [parents aghast realise there is no yellow truck in present pile or indeed anything similar... only boring educational toys...] Next morning he was very very upset that there was no yellow truck. We had to buy one on Boxing Day and pretend there had been a mixup!
Thomas blanket does sound a useful thing to have around the house too!

Took dcs to singing lesson through the snow. Quarter way there dd had complete tantrum and refused to walk another step saying her leg and throat hurt...and that I had promised to drive her. Car was this point frozen to road. Rang singing teacher to cancel shamefacedly, and singing teacher said she wasn't expecting me, and if I had come that would have been fine too, but fine if I didn't! So all fine after all, but a bit at all the unnecessary stress. Well I suppose we had a little walk in fresh air

So now I need to do some tidying and enjoy the p & q.

swan oh bless him! well, actually DS2 does have a yellow truck...but no blanket LOL and he has now announced also the father Christmas is bringing him some Iggle Piggle socks where is he getting these things from??? So now off to search for Thomas blanket and iggle piggle socks tomorrow....wonder if the list will grow next week, and if any of it will be in any way similar to what he is actually getting
Singing trip sounds stressful...but good that you are all back safe and warm...hope rest of evening good...

am feeling need for wine....
DD3 has returned in TOTAL meltdown mode after her week of plays and parties
I have delegated DH to go to Carol Service,
which does sadly mean I get to do littlies bedtime alone, and DS2 is appearing very spritely after spending the day in bed...ho hum!

BBL

Hi all no time for anything else just list
sorry I've been lazy today and got DS to help me Hoover and had him eat on his own while I hoovered downstairs don't normally do that.
D/W loadeddone
Clean Fridge Done
Make beds done
W/M loaded done in dryer next on
Food Shopping done
Hoover all over the place done
Dust same as above done
School Christmas Bazaar done
Ds friend over to play done and cleared mess!
Now finish 2 soups
wash kitchen Floor
Decorate downstairs Now
Dh will be home soon I'm sure he's been drinking since 2pm! I don't mind if he's out later as it'll give me time to do stuff

OFM have seen Thomas blankets in Asda, and in Home Bargains, if you have one, and definitely have on in Argos if that's easy?

Need to make my xmas cake - tomorrow?
Had a quite nice day today, Arthur fell asleep on school run in the pram, slept til I woke him to feed before nursery pick up - fell asleep on his own for afternoon nap and then again later ... happy baby today! long may it last

bb tomorrow

Ooo wendy Arthur sounds like a star .

ofm Hope you are keeping your head above water, all sounds frantic!

swan Good luck with party tomorrow. Put all the kids in one room somewhere .

nuttysanta hope you got your drunken husband out of the way

DD still poorly (so no sleep for me again). Work Christmas party was great, had a little dance .

Dh 'worked from home' today to look after dd. Together they cleaned the kitchen its never been so shiny!!

Tonight we have finally put the tree up and decorated. Christmas tree looks like someone vomitted tinsel on it .

Amazon have delivered 3 DVDs (Gforce, home alone and monst v aliens) so that should keep em quiet next week.

I have been singing along to Now Thats What I Call Xmas. Tis very jolly .

afternoon all

scatty hope dd is a bit better today. Yay for DVDs too!

well, have done well so far this morning.
Went shopping - got there at 8.45 - very quiet! Tried Sainsburys for Thomas blanket (no luck, although they had lovely ones with cars or diggers or aliens or dinosaurs...but alas no Thomas) then tried Wilkinsons - thought I'd be in luck when I spotted a Thomas cushion, Thomas duvet cover and Thomas light shade...but alas no blanket - (although they did have a Roary one and a Toy Story one)
I did however finally track one down in argos (good tip wendy) so all is good!!
Got a few other bits and pieces...and am more or less done now(although I have been saying that since September LOL)

Then I am most pleased with myself as I came home and made myself go for a 3 mile run! It was a bit of a struggle towards the end, but I am glad I made it though as I havent been in 3 weeks!

Not sure what Im doing now...
Have lots to do...but lacking in motivation...
HoHum..

BBL

Well done on finding that blanket ofm!

Took DS into town for swimming lesson. It was crazy!!
Quick trip to the park this aft. Freezing cold and dd still not well so very quick trip, looks lovely in the snow with ducks huddled in the corner of frozen pond!

Trying to hold off pre christmas tension. Had a row with dh this morning about whether there was an 'edge' to my voice or not (when I mentioned that we had 3 unopened bags of carrots) .

scatty I know what you mean about tension - I have managed to fall out with DH - long story but he was meant to arrange for us to go out weeks ago...and didnt...and then suggests going out on Weds night, to which I say I would rather wait till after Christmas now (as I am working Mon, Tue and long day Weds and know I will be shattered and still trying to sort Christmas stuff etc...) so he is sulking saying I don't want to spend time with him
I pointed out that it was different for him , on Holiday all week and considering he does NOTHING to get Christmas stuff ready - just wakes up Christmas morning to see that Santa has delivered wonderful presents for 6 DC...sigh...

anyway....am going to try to keep Christmas grumpiness to a minimum...

am quite impressed that so far we have no snow really had enough of it last time to last the whole winter.

and am cheering myself up by reminding myself that after Tuesday the days start getting longer again....Spring is just round the corner

gosh...where are you all??? stuck in a snow drift???
anyway...
am shattered today and attling grumpiness still....

Have just booked dds bday party, having realised I will need to hand out invitations before end of term (Tue) as her bday is on Jan 14th, and party on 15th...and girls not back at school until 10th...so too short notice....

now going to hid in my room I think as DC annoying me imensley

Wow OFM thats late to go back to school, we areback on the 4th. Goodjob you realised now. - Hope grumpiness disappears.

Have been up all night with grumpy DD, screaming and crying for a drink, can't sleep and wants telly on. Suspect its a sore throat with her cold causing it.

DD is off to a birthday party and a xmas party today and then swimming lessons (depending on how she goes with lack of sleep / cold) I am spending the day on my last assignment before xmas so I can drive and hand it in tomorrow so am leaving the parties to DH now I have bought and wrapped pressies etc.

Went to shops and bought all xmas presents yesterday so one less thing to do, although still need to put up tree etc.

To Do today

• Washing
• Essay
• Wash bedding
• Sort recycling
• Contact friends re playdate this week
• Sort out paperwork mountain
• Write last lot of xmas cards

Hope everyone enjoys their day

Hope you get your assignment done MC. My dd also has a nasty cold/cough, day 4 now and still v clingy/wingy (sigh).

have been to aquarium with dc (to avoid cabin fever). Quite restful . Dh gone into town to do some Xmas shopping .

Hope you can get that party organised ofm.

scatty aquarium sounds good.

MC poor DD, and you! Hope tonight is etter for you. And yes girls do go back to school silly late, DS1 and DH are both back on 4th...but then they don't finish school till Tues (well Weds is officially inset day, then Thurs is first day of their hols) DH and DS1 both finished Friday ( as did the rest of the world...sigh )

OK...not bad afternoon. DH has possibly taken my point about his lack of participation Christmas prep! He has sat and done all Christmas cards with DDs for their friends...

He is now putting up remaining decorations...and I am resisting the urge to correct the positioning - it is true I do have control issues(!) that make it hard for him to help out, as I then invariably end up criticising or re-doing myself So I am sat here trying Sooooo hard not to tell him that the garland he has just put up isn't straight.....

DS2 has just emptied all the drawing pins over the floor...not interfering...

LOL DH has just stepped back and said "oh, not very even is it" LOL LOL MUST not interfere....Oh no now he's asking me if its OK...."yes that's lovely" aaarrrgggghhh

BBL

Lol ofm I make sneaky adjustments when no one is looking!

Scatty LOL "edge to voice" I think there is an axe in my tones..

Party v. v. tiring to organise (partly because I was feeling ill in run-up) but we made it through! And I think it went well, though not quite as packed as we would have liked due to snow chaos and sickbugs LOL..plenty of kids though!!!!Dh spent a large proportion of party keeping other people's kids calm and fed culminating in sending them out for a snowball fight at10.30pm [in beautiful newlylaid snowon the road outside...

then neighbour (with same age kids) who I had unfortunatelyNOT invited to party (think Bad Fairy at Sleeping Beauty's Christening) put her head out of the window and said she was calling the police!!! re: unsupervised hooligans in road Dh was furious with neighbour (not to her face thoughluckily) all rather difficult ho hum...

Then this afternoon made mistake of ringing my sister in Dublin who I hadn't talked to for a while, who had also had a Xmas party the same night. She said she had FIFTY guests in her house, MOJHITOS [cocktails with lime and prosecco and everyone had stayed till 1.30 am. So then I felt a bit depressed Deep down I see I don't have what is required to give parties...A sort of bacchanalian approach

We've had quite a nice day [apart from clearing up] Tempers moderately frayed but luckily not all at once
Dh now in bad mood wrestling with overtired kids and Scalextrix..We've just been to local Anglican church for lovely carol service.

And we still haven't put the Christmas Tree up though house is decorated! Not sure when dh wants to buy it..

MC hope dd has a better night.
OFM we were playing Thomas Pairs this morning (memory game)and ds2 said he was too old for it He used to be obsessed...we had every single video, including Singalong and all the books.

Morning off to work see you lot later. Don't get stuck. Going on to traintracker site now to see if there is a train to work!

Ops! name change its Nutty bear

Good luck nutty hope you get there (and more importantly get back).

swan you and dh sound like fantastic party hosts . Snowball fight sounds brilliant! Baa Humbug to neighbours!!

I'm up and at it this morning though Dc still asleep (hopefully sleeping off their colds). Need to hit sainsburys . Then tackle the house:

To do:
buy food etc
wash bedding
wash seat covers
hoover
dust
bathroom
recycling
banking

Oh and swan I mistakenly phoned my sister last night who kept going on at how lucky I was to have 2 wks off work etc and how she is single handedly keeping the NHS afloat right up until Christmas Eve! She doesn't have kids and still believes that if I am not at work I must be on holiday!!
Sisters really know how to put you down don't they!

Boys are now on Wii, Dd is about to watch Merlin (of which we have 10,000 episodes so I could do some tidying...

a friend coming at four with three kids, so that is a little incentive

Also need to do some wrapping of cds and sticking in postbox with loving notes to godchildren ho hum...

still snow everywhere

hello all
Sneaking on at work

scatty hope dc wake up better, I can confirm that your sister isnt single handedly keeping NHS afloat as I am here doing my bit too LOL

swan I'm sure all who came enjoyed party. Agree with Bahumbug to neighbour!

Prof hope dds better

nutty hope journey not too bad.

Tis all nice and relaxed here today. Have spent much timew in Nursing office eating chocs and discussing Turkeys LOL
Part games with the teenagers this afternoon

Poor DH on the other hand is at home with DS2, and has done school drop off and braved Asda (though did have to text me at work 3 times about which Turkey to but LOL)
Was quite sad at having to work this week, but think I have got the best end of the bargain LOL

BBL

party games....

Hope you're not working all week ofm really my sister can manage by herself you know .

Had a lovely day today . Dc woke rested and more normal . They seem to have come down a little from the hysteria of the weekend. We have been making Xmas biscuits and watching Home Alone.

Not much housework done though .