The jolly red man has been and gone

but the extra chrissy kilos are still here!!! LOL They will be gone by the time we hit the beach tho (fingers crossed). Although we are still working our way through left over food. Let see - um, left over ham, cold turkey, curried turkey and tonights masterpiece was curried turkey filo pies!! LOL One more meal and I think we will be done. The girls loved christmas day so much. WOW and they are now able to really appreciate the family time and very proudly gave gifts to everyone that they had chosen on their own. The $2 shop is a treasure trove.

Next on the list is Miss 3's 4th birthday in the middle of January. She is excited and requesting a strawberry cake. Well that should be easy enough. No party this year but probably a morning tea with the grandparents.

Spent yesterday trying to find a magic swimsuit that will make me look like Halle Berry (failed of course) and looking for new sunglasses. Took the kids to the Domain for a walk around the wintergardens and then the museum. Gotta love that place. So much more fun than when we were kids with awesome interactive ideas and things that kids can actually touch, puzzles, dressups, sandboxes etc. Always a great place to spend some time.

The excitement increases

as there are only two more sleeps. TWO MORE SLEEPS!!!!!!!!!! lol The girls are almost beside themselves with anticipation. This is really a fun time. They are both old enough to understand and enjoy fully the joy of Christmas. We took them both shopping (at the $2 shop lol) this morning. Yep we braved the crowds and arrived on the $2 shop doorstop at 9.00am precisely, only to find it already full of people and the street very busy too. Heaps of shops already open. For the past couple of years we have taken Isobel to choose a wee gift for members of the family. Something that she has thought about and can put her name on under the tree. She also makes alot of things too like pictures and books, but this is something that she quite enjoys doing. This year Jess wanted to join in too. So we decided that they should choice the pressies together instead of one each for each person KWIM? You know its the $2 shop!! Don't want to overload the grandparents with some lovely gift that is likely to break before they get home. Gotta love the $2 shop tho cause it does have some treasures. Anyway they found pressies for everyone and AGREED on them all!!!!!!!!!!! WOW!!! Then got a pressie for each other, home to wrap and put under the tree. They were so excited about that too.

The only things that are worrying me are - not having enough room for everyone to sit down and eat, and also having to cook the turkey!! OMG Do these people not know that I cannot be trusted with the turkey!!!!!!!! ah well, there will be ham as a backup!! lol

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you all.

4 more sleeps!!

wow where did that time go. The kids finished kindy and school this week, mum had her birthday, swimming and other after school activities have finished, I finished work on Tuesday and hubby finishes today. FAR OUT!!! the last few weeks have just flown by. We are sorted tho (I think lol) and ready for the big day. Just have to wrap a few pressies LOL Oh and type up the PTA minutes from last week. OPPS!!

Oh and far out!!! Who watched ER the other night!!! I was feeling sick the whole way through and haven't slept well since. One of those things that keeps going around and around in my mind.

And speaking of TV, hands up those that watched the Bandaid item on Tuesday. LMAO It was like being taken back in time and I have to admit that I have been playing some 80's music since then. Love the hair and the clothes. Gosh didn't that take me back. Might just grow out my fringe again, get a perm and tease the heck out of my hair. See if I can start a new trend huh?? LOL

First day of the school hols today and it is 8.30am, Miss 7 still in bed, Miss nearly 4 watching TV, no breaky, no LUNCHES to make and I finally find time to blog. COOL!! gotta love the holidays. Oh and the diary is blank for the rest of this week!! love that too.

One last piece of very exciting news. I am going to be an Aunty again!! yay!! My brother and his wife in Ireland are expecting number 2. Can't wait!!

Right off to check the things left to do. Oh and Miss Evana I haven't forgotten about your challenge. I am working on it but it is not comming out the way it looked in my head. May just have to start again LOL But I am planning on setting aside time today. I feel the need to scrap LOL

Merry Christmas everyone.

another weekend closer to christmas

yep another weekend gone and according to my girls it is only THREE WEEKS till Christmas!!! lol they are so excited. We started the chocolate calendar and that is helping to keep up the excitment too.

Jobs completed over the weekend - work all done, umbrella stand concreted it (that took most of yesterday lol), christmas tree and decorations up (after rushing to the warehouse to buy a new one as the old one fell apart comming out of the box), santa parade accomplished with one on a float and the other watching, new fairy (star actually) for the top of the tree as the other one broke when it fell off the top of the new tree, not sure that it liked the extra height! oh and the first batch of my grandmas toffee is made and in the fridge. We make it every year at christmas and only at christmas time otherwise I would eat it all, and the garden dug up and weeded. Also we met with the draftsman doing the extension plans for the house so I have some jobs to do at the council this morning, need to get some more information but it is all looking really good. Should have the final plans by the end of the week. PHEW

Have a good week all

all is well

and my new oven, stove top and dishwasher are installed and working beautifully (if only I knew how to use them lol). The buyer for the old ones arrived the next day after the auction finished to collect them so it was a mad rush to get them disconnected. Unfortunately I had the sparkie booked for today to put in the new ones and he was so busy that he couldn't make it any earlier (although he did try yesterday for me). Might have had something to do with the message on his cellphone begging him to connect them as I couldn't cope with another night of left overs or takeaways!!! and it had only been three nights LOL So he arrived at 5pm and they are installed and working (hubby did the dishwasher yesterday tho). Might just need to read up on the instructions tho as I have burnt the first meal cooked on the stove top. Wow it is HOT and FAST!!! Bring on the toffee pot its time to make chrissy toffee. Also the girls are really excited because we promised that tomorrow would be the day for setting up the christmas tree and they have started their home made countdown to christmas chocolate thingy that I made at the last crop thanks to Ruth and Tracy.

Busy weekend ahead with the santa parade tomorrow (although I might just be able to get out of that one if I say that I have heaps of work to do LOL). Oh and check out the pic!!! 9.30am this morning and we have a hail storm. Nice for the first day of summer!!!

Have a great weekend all.