Hmmm

I don't know about going against the flow but I have obviously lost the flow. Must try and get back to blogging. I just don't feel I've got much to say. I've kind of given up on any even semi-formal educational stuff and we're just doing Christmas crafts, cards and that kind of thing, in the small amount of time there seems to be between dashing from one thing to another.

Jade was in the school nativity play on Tuesday evening - she was an angel! She decided not to sing most of the songs, even though I know she can as she has sung them endlessly at home. She mostly just smiled, waved at me and Shannon repeatedly, and watched what everyone else was doing. She looked very sweet though, and TBH I was just impressed that she agreed to stand up there in front of everybody. Progress, I think!

I feel moderately on top of Christmas, for a change. Our cards have nearly all gone in the post today (except not the HE list ones - need envelopes!) as has the package for the USA - so it's probably a couple of days past the last posting date but that's the nearest I've ever got in the past few years so I'm pretty proud of myself! I have nearly all presents purchased - just one or two difficult people I'm still wrestling over.

The house is still a complete wreck which is a shame because I was wanting to host a Boxing Day party but thinking about it I don't see how we can possibly fit more than about 4 people in, and I was more thinking about 6-8 adults plus all their kids ... just don't think it's going to work, not even using the traditional 'stash and dash' method of pre-party cleaning and tidying.

Oh, and just for Sally, if you read this - I can't seem to post a link on your blog comments, so comment here and I'll e-mail you with that yahoo group I mentioned.