My snow angels

Susannah and Abigail........my snow angels :)

Sledding with Mom!

And here are a few of me sledding too :)

Sledding with daddy.......

Lloyd joined us for a while and had fun too :)

snow much fun!!!

This afternoon we went out sledding while Lloyd cleared some of the driveway. Then Lloyd came and joined us for a while....it was snow much fun!!! :)

feeling better

I started taking my iron again two days ago - I feel so much better already - why do I stop taking it? Why do I do that to myself? I end up tired and feeling low....but when I take it I feel fine! Lloyd is always nagging me to take it but really I shouldn't need to be nagged.

Take your iron Jane!!!

Almost there

We are almost done with our Christmas shopping - we have got the food - will get the last of it tomorrow (apart from the fresh stuff of course) and we have almost all the gifts now - two more to get I think and then we are done :) I am so glad :) Tonight I am going to get everything out and check through it all and make sure the children have the same amount.......then I can wrap and be done with it :)

Lloyd and I spent this morning Christmas shopping together and we were so lucky that everything we needed was in stock :) Scholars CHoice said they had sold out of all of one thing and then the girl ran out from the back and said she had found one :) I told her she was an angel :)

Well, I promised Lloyd a cup of tea when he came in from clearing the driveway so I had better do that! He took Sam out with him on the quad and they use the plow (plough???) to clear the driveway.

Off to make tea and start dinner!

The table.....

One of the reasons that I wanted a larger family, was that I had this image in my head of our big family sat around a huge table on special occasions - especially Christmas Day. Well today we got a step nearer that dream! Today we bought a new dining table and 8 chairs.......The table is very long - Lloyd will need a megaphone to speak to his Dad during dinner :)

Our table will arrive this week and then we can say bye bye to the nasty yucky one we have now - the one that desperately needs restaining and has so much glue dried and stuck to it that it constantly looks yucky - and it has paint and all kinds of stuff all over it!!!!

I can't wait for the new table to arrive!!!

Happy boy :)

Chris's friend is sleeping over tonight...Chris bought the Smackdown 2007 game today for the playstation - with his birthday money from August. He is happy :) So he and his friend will no doubt play that all night lol!

On Thursday Chris made supper - he made French toast......this is his specialty. I've attached pics of him cooking. Lloyd was out for his Christmas meal with work on Thursday evening but he came home early :)

Last night (Friday) Lloyd and I went out for dinner together and then did some shopping at Kites and other Delights. Thern we came home and watched the last half of Trading Spouses - wow it was just so sad...the wife didn't learn anything and her poor husband and daughters - it was just so sad!

I also sat and watched My Boys last night and I think I have found a show to watch regularly! I don't really watch much tv - haven't watched a regular show for years......well apart from Little People - Big World of course!!!! But this one was really good - I can imagine Susie being like PJ when she is older!!!!! Kind of girly but one of the lads too ;) I guess that comes from having big brothers lol!

enjoy :)

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and best of all:

http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=972f7adacb270c22aefd98b_20061207

which I sent to Lloyds colleagues who then sent it around the entire office :)

Go Elf Yourself!!

I did!!!!! :)

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A possibility...

So there is a possibility that we could go to Japan to live for a while......Lloyd has the chance to work there. We will only consider it if it means we have accommodation provided and the pay is good. It would be a wonderful opportunity though. It is somewhere I have always wanted to visit - as has Lloyd - and Chris is fascinated with the country...so yes we are looking into it. We would keep the house here though and return here afterwards...It would be for a maximum of two years.

So who knows.....it would be good but would not be for another year yet and is still just a possibility!

posting comments

Anyone else having problems posting comments on other blogs???? Almost all of them won't let me :(

Please and thank you

Sam has been able to say please for a while now so now we are working on thank you!! This morning the girls were sharing out raspberries and getting Sam to say thank you each time they put one in his cup.....

Piggin Santa Claus is comin' to town!

We tried and tried to get a good pic of Charlie in a Santa hat but it was soooooo NOT easy!!!

Abigails cartoon....

Here is the comic/ cartoon that Abigail did yesterday - I am very impressed. She is 4 :) She read it to me and its about two children bullying each other because they wear braces...then they meet a bunny who talks and then a dinosaur comes along and pees and poos and they go home and then to the park to play where they see a mouse going into a hole and then they play paper aeroplanes........

:) Susie did the writing for her :)