Tuesday before Christmas....

Hhhmmmm  it's just a few days to go now until Christmas day.  Are you all set?  All prepared?  What are you up to today?  Over the next few days?

Dana was telling me yesterday that the Polish tradition is to celebrate on Christmas Eve, and so they are having a big meal with 12 courses (no meat) on Christmas Eve, and then they will open gifts....of course Susannah and her friends were all complaining to Dana's Son that it wasn't fair that he gets to open all his gifts so soon and they have to wait hahahaha!  It's so nice to hear how others spend the next few days :)

Today we are heading over to my wonderful friend Vals house.....for some lunch, to decorate ornaments and maybe a game or two (I'm bringing a game!!)

Then home to relax for the evening - the movie that we were going to flop in front of last night - but I ended up spending the night chatting with Samantha :)

Lloyd is out for the evening with IBM, so I will watch a movie with the kids and eat junk (lol) while he has his Christmas night out!  I am soooo  tired that I hope Val won't mind if I take a nap on her sofa.....you won't mind will you Val????

Apologies to anyone who has Emailed me in the last few days - I have not had ANY Emails since Sunday.  I don't even know if I can send Emails.  They are trying to figure out the problem :(  So if you need to get in touch text me or leave me a comment here instead - I just won't publish it ;)

Snapshots of our gingerbread house party...

Yesterday the kids had some of their school friends over to make gingerbread houses....sadly because of the weather, several of their friends couldn't make it, but we still had a LOT of fun!!!!  :)  Firstly the kids played some board games in front of the fire...then we had lunch...then we decorated the houses.  Then the kids went outside and went sledding and played in the snow.  Then they came inside for hot chocolate....then more game playing until it was time to go home.

My neighbour/ friend came and joined us with her Son too.  She brought the most AMAZING cream puffs that she had made....Mmmmmmm soooo yummy!!!

Chris filmed the making of is gingerbread house - I will try and get the link when he adds it to youtube ;)    It will probably be one of those movies where he speeds the whole thing up ;)  He and Max took almost 3 hours to do their house but it WAS very well done :)

In the end it worked out well that Laurences friends couldn't make it - as he got a phone call from another neighbour at lunchtime asking if he could babysit straight away for a few hours, so he earned some money!!  Then he got another call and was asked to join some friends at the movies for the evening, so he ended up having a fun day anyway!

Giggly school girls.....

My friend Samantha dropped by last night and Susannah said we sat on the sofa chatting and giggling like school girls!!!  I don't see Samantha too often - we're good friends - but we're the kind of friends who see each other every few months because our lives are so busy - but when we get together it is as if we saw each other only yesterday - we have lots to tell each other and we spend the whole time laughing  and catching up!

Thats what last night was like!