Thursday 18 December 2008

Christmas Rush

Well I've been in a frenzy of writing Christmas cards, trying to sort out everything ready for Christmas and delivering various children to their various Christmas activities!! Little Prince has been to the Panto "Oh yes he has!!" with school. He loved it, which is great as we are all going again on Christmas Eve courtesy of our Social Services Dept :-)

Our Builder who has been hard at work on our roof and with the chimneys all week, is within inches of finishing today :-) He is very relieved as our roof is very high and it wasn't a pleasant place to work in the Wintery weather we've been having. He ran out of lead for the flashing for the last foot or so, and once he's done that its finished :-) And as Mr Messy did photographs of him, his wife and daughter he has done us a great price for the work he's done :-) And to top it off his wife is getting all the clothes and toys their daughter has grown out of and is packing them up to give to us for our new little one :-) They are such a sweet couple and their daughter is adorable :-)

While I was writing Christmas cards this afternoon with the girls (Little Prince was back late from school due to the Pantomime) my friend Mad Cat Lady rang. She wanted me to go round right away to see the pictures of their friends wedding IN DISNEY!!!! WOW!! They even had a ride in Cinderella's coach!!! I've tried to persuade Mr Messy that we need to renew our vows there, but I don't think he likes the idea lol :-)

Me and Mr Messy visited the supermarket to get the Christmas food order in. This is in addition to the humongous grocery delivery that arrived earlier today!! But we do have guests this Christmas and we want to show them a proper English Christmas :-)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

So if the chimney is finished, can you get Mr Messy to light you a proper fire for christmas?

Baby Bro

(who thought the job of unblocking the chimney would be easy - that bit was, fixing the rest of the stuff took several weeks!)

Janet said...

Hi Baby Bro,
It seems chimneys are more complicated than they look!!
Lots of love
Janet
xxx

Anonymous said...

Wonder what the guest will make of sprouts????????????

Love S

So glad your dossier is almost back in Darlington ready to be sent!

Janet said...

Hi S,
Lol I bet he will be extremely polite and eat them even though they are yukky!!
Not heard from Darlington, presume they will send the dossier in the New Year.
Love
Janet
xxx


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