Well... as predicted....Christmas came....whether i was ready or not!
And READY i WAS NOT!!!!
Have stumbled through the past week.....and cannot believe that last week was christmas.
i don't know where time has gone.
nothing majorly bad happened... just the usual 'Multicoloured Mayhem'...in a House At The End Of The Rainbow.
Highlights to date are....
me searching most of christmas day for the rest of my husbands presents....i hid them (somewhere in the kitchen...NOT in the oven this time!!!)....and i had so many carrier bags (filled with things to sort out)hung on the hall coatrack...that i had not realised that i'd actually hung his bag of pressies there...and there they sat....so at teatime i finally found what i had intended to wrap ...so i just gave him the bag of things!
Then....back to xmas eve... leigh had woken to check his stocking.... found it missing (father christmas had just taken it to fill it up)...and when santa was sneaking in to put the stocking back...he discovered leigh sat bolt upright in bed...looking very confused.... so santa quickly dissapeard and 'magically' I appeared (!!)...holding leigh's stocking.... Leigh then said he had just seen santa....and was his tocking back in place...i thrn got in bed with him...planning to settle him...it was 1am.
then every 5 or 10 mins (just as i dozed off) leigh saw santa's sleigh fly past the window....and he kept waking me to check his stocking. Finally at 5am i gave up...he said dsanta had heard ME snorring(!!!) and had filled leigh's stocking )thinking that i was leigh!)....and apparently...leigh actually saw santa come in his room again to really put his stocking back....and at that point i got up and let him have his stocking!!!
Contrasting story with alex... who refused to let santa anywhere near him..... so insisted his stocking be left outside on the landing floor...and he had tucked two blankets around his bed (between his lower bunk and leigh's top bunk)...so as to conceal him completely .... and he woke up (when WE woke him at 9am).... he loved his stocking.... loved his presents.... but was freaked out that santa was coming.
then there was christmas day..exactly as i predicted..... alex riding up and down the house on his motorbike...chipping paintwork...running over my mums feet (i did tell her to keep her shoes on.... but oh no! Forgot...mum NEVER wears shoes indoors on the carpet!!!...i prefer to have 'safe feet'...and long agao gave up having bare feet in our house...i am either stood on...knocked into...or i tread on marbles...lego....farm animals etc...and it HURTS!!!)
Tom sat on the PC in the lounge playing his SIMS game...and leigh 'boinged' between his PS2 and me..whereever i was.
They did indeed have choc spread sanwhiches for lunch.....and we had our 'lunch' at 4pm....kids eating small bits of what they liked...i did not give them a full lunch.
Leigh refused to pull his cracker....untill i sat down....only every lets me pull it (as i do it so he doesn't get 'banged'!!!) Ofcourse my mum was offended cos he didn't want to pull a cracker with 'grandma!!!)
Then there was last night....midnight stuck...we'd let tom have a Bacardi Breezer BOTTLE (filled with lemonade!!!!) so that he felt he had a 'grown up drink!).... which he managed to get his finger stuck in as the clock struck 12!!! He got it out 5 mins later.....after we'd gone from hysterics to hysteria...as we realised that we would have to take him to caSUALTY......with a bacardi bottle attatched to his 12 year old body!!!!
I have had ridiculous dreams this week...the 'best' being the one where i got a letter from toms school saying they had requested him be seen by an educational psychologist!!! Exciting dreams i have.... yet as you who know me alraedy know...i would LOVE this to be real life...not just a dream.
Instead...i wake up...i remind myself that he is back to school on wednesday....and we will be back to the heartache that he suffers due to him being 'unnoticed'....despite being clearly LABELED!!!
(hysterical letter from the senco last month... stating he had Asperger's Tendancies...!!!! So i am replying stating he does NOT have TENDANCIES....HE HAS ASPERGERS....HE IS AUTISTIC. For LIFE.
wonder what their reply will be.
so ...off i go.... please make me smile with your 'Tales' from your Festivities!!!