Sunday

Today Mr Messy took Little Prince and LMS out for a cooked English Breakfast, which meant I could laze in bed for a hour or so :-) While they were out I got a phone call from Mr Messy's mum saying she was in hospital with heart troubles and that she was possibly going to have either a stent or a bypass operation. Not the greatest of news just before Christmas, but at least she is in the right place for the doctors to keep an eye on her, especially as she has been feeling ill since early November!

When the breakfasters got back, Mr Messy collected Drama Teen and they went out to scope out the church that they are photographing a wedding at next weekend. Apparently the church is a lovely old building, and is very bright and airy inside which will be perfect for photographing :-) When they got back Mr Messy said there wasn't a queue at the village Father Christmas Grotto, so we got Little Prince ready and took him over there. We let him guess where we were going, and it wasn't until we were almost there that he realised. He was thrilled to see his friend (the who's party he was at yesterday) also there waiting to see Father Christmas. We had a mince pie, played the tombola and waited our turn to go and see the man himself.

When Little Prince went in, he held my hand and told me I had to come too. He stood awestruck as Father Christmas talked to him and even knew where he lived (wonderful advantage of living in a tiny village). He promised to leave a drink and mince pie for Father Christmas and a carrot for Rudolph on Christmas Eve. He was so excited that he got an early present and was thrilled to bits to be allowed to open it when we got home. It was a racing motorbike toy that Little Prince loved.

We got back just in time for another of Little Prince's friends to come to play. They ran around like only two active boys can, played cars, played Mr Potato Head and played on the Wii. They seemed to get along very well with few arguements and falling outs :-) They did, however, both refuse to eat their vegetables with their tea! I cooked tea while Mr Messy took friend home again, and after we had eaten we settled down to watch yet another X-factor type programme. This one was a Peter Kay spoof and was hilarious. However, no one had told Drama Teen that it was a spoof and she thought it was true!! It had ludicrous situations, like a contestant's granny dying at the news he had been voted out, which made the producers change their minds and go and interupt the funeral to drag him back on the show!! Me and LMS were killing ourselves laughing at the sheer absurdity of this, and getting killer looks from Drama Teen, who obviously thought we were being heartless b*tches!! Her reaction when we explained was so funny - she asked if the "contestants" knew it was a spoof!! Life would be so boring with Drama Teen :-)