Christmas

I had a really lovely Christmas, other than Harry being a little high maintenance... Tully however was wonderful and more than made up for him being such a pain.

Highlights for me from our time in Lincolnshire include, in no particular order:

• Watching Tully opening her stocking
• Christmas dinner
• Mum offering and carrying out a full night on duty with Harry
• Meeting Sam and Abigail when we went to Dall's to see Gran, as well as seeing Andrew and Steven as I've not seen them for a few years
• Spending a few minutes at Lincoln Crem saying goodbye to Grandpa
• Taking Tully to the fab play area at Surfleet

Mark's finally succumbed

Traditionally, every year we go to visit Mark's Nan and Grandad on the last Sunday before Christmas. Sadly Mark has finally caught the cold that I've been fighting for 2 weeks so we phoned them to postpone until after Christmas...

Really really poorly

I've had a cold / flu for about a week now, and in comparison to how I was I'm now much better. Last Thursday and Friday I could barely move, had a raging fever and just felt the worst I have ever felt for as long as I can remember. Luckily Harry was mostly well behaved on those days otherwise I'd never have survived. Both he and Tully are now suffering, although both seem to be coping better than I did. So now there's just Mark to catch it! Who's betting he has it over Christmas???

Surprise Visit

Chrissy popped in today to feed Izzy on route to the Wirral to visit her parents. It was a flying visit but lovely to see them both.

Present wrapping unhelper

I foolishly thought Tully would be helpful when it came to wrapping presents so I got everything out and we set too. Now, every year I buy a tin of biscuits or chocolates for some family members so I don't feel bad about spoiling any surprises by telling this story, other than the surprise that I may have been more creative this year....

The first presents we are to wrap are the aforementioned tins of edible delights when Tully says she'd like them for herself. I tell her that they are for other people and sometimes we give presents we'd like for ourselves to others. She thinks for a few seconds.

"But Mummy, it'll go off! You can't give food as presents. That's just madness! So we'll have to eat them all up now!" ('That's just madness' is her favourite phrase of the moment...)

Nice try mate. But being the meany I am I didn't listen to her so you can look forward to your gone off tins next week!

How not to explain a grown ups party to a 3 year old.

Today Mark is going on a work night out, starting out in the middle of the afternoon. Tully also had her nursery Christmas party today. When we get home after I've picked her up we have the following conversation...

Tully: Where's Daddy?
Me: He's got his Christmas party today too.
T: Ooo, will he play pass the parcel?
Me: No, you don't play party games really at grown up parties.
T (sounding both incredulous and outraged!): No party games!!!?!?!? So what will he do at his party?
Me: Well, he'll have some food, drink beer and chat.
T: That sounds really boring...
Me: That reminds me, don't jump on Daddy's head in the morning as he'll be feeling a bit poorly. (Tully likes to wake Mark up every day by bouncing on him...:)
T: Why will he be feeling poorly?
Me: Because he'll have drunk a lot of beer and beer makes people feel poorly so we'll have to be gentle with him.
T: So there are no games at Daddy's party, and he'll feel poorly tomorrow because all there was to do was drink beer...
Me: Yes, something like that.
T: Hmm, that's just madness.

I had to agree...