Could someone fill me in on Mellors' many functions? I do see the use of the fabulous pecs but surely the man should be able to make himself a bit more useful than that!
I'm so sorry to hear so many of you were struck by illness over Christmas! How miserable.
I'm still gobsmacked over the picture of Sandrine Whatsername... she can be me any time!! Can't tell the rest of her figure but if she's tall and rather stick-like, she'll do. I am with all the women who lose weight while breast-feeding. I'm roughly ten pounds thinner now than I was before I got pregnant. Jackbaby, on the other hand, is a little porker sturdy little man, so we know where it's all going!
On the materialistic end, all the gifts given and received in the Jack household were lovely this year!! I have a favourite store in Bellevue, Washington (about two hours' drive south of here, across the border), called Title Nine. It's a casual/ somewhat athletic wear type of shop, and I could cheerfully wear just about every item. My wonderful DH got me a burgundy messenger bag that has a lime-green scroll-y pattern on the flap and a lime-green strap - it sounds horrible as I type this but it's beautiful. And my MIL got me a wrap cardigan in a wonderful merino wool, it's also burgundy but with a camel-coloured lining, and it has a shawl-type hood so the lining shows. Also a kimono-print vest that was delayed shipping so Christmas will stretch out! Mum got me polar-fleece and down puffy slippers for my eternally cold feet, and the most wonderful camel-coloured 600 thread-count bed sheets... since we co-sleep and our sheets are frequently covered in breast milk and baby wee, I may delay using these... or not... That's the catalogue of presents received (, on to the catalogue of presents given: my mum, who is an outstanding cook, got a chef's knife set she's been craving, and a picture frame with pictures of her and me when I was a baby, and pictures of Jackbaby and me now. (Cue mummy tears...) Dh got a gorgeous chocolate brown leather briefcase, and some yummy cologne. I have been sniffing him suggestively but he has yet to take the hint . And we banded together and got my MIL a huge chimenea (outdoors fireplace type thing), and my stepdad a heated vest. Racingsnake briefly popped into a previous thread of mine to comment that he was lucky we got him anything at all, LOL - he has been known to be a rather ungracious receiver of gifts that he doesn't like... but everyone was lovely this year.
So... as you can gather... I will be needing to work a bit in the New Year to pay all these gifts off - but worth it from everyone's very pleased expressions.
BTW, as you can see I have name-changed back, so no feelings will be hurt if the Christmas decorations mysteriously vanish!! I would love to see hyacinths... there are metres of snow on the ground here, and as the temperatures have risen rapidly, it's all melting, there are lakes of slush on the roads, and we are threatened with flooding. So a breath of spring would be most welcome.