Seasons Greetings

Well I hope everyone has had a great couple of days - but thank goodness its all over for another year.

The gifts are all opened, the leftover food is slowly rotting in the fridge and the tinsel on cars now just looks tacky - & its only 4 days after the event!!

We had a good one though, and as with many children round the place - Lucy received way more than she will ever need.
I could get on my soapbox about the huge-ness of marketing, and that its not really about how many gifts you give - or if you are the first person to give gifts to the kids....??? (you know who you are!), But I won't. I think everyone hears it enough.

Before children, Jon and I were very Bah Humbug, but now we have conformed somewhat and it was a great delight to see Lucy enjoying her gifts to the full.

We also have ended the Chrissy Season with a family feud brewing...normally I would say great, bring it on. But this time I'm the one instigating it! Oh dear. Not very merry of me Im afraid.
Im sorry but I wont go into details here. Although those who know my family may well be able to guess who it is with. Hee Hee.

I also did two shifts last week at the greatest bakery in the world.... 26 hours in two days! One was a measly 6 hours, but the other was the full 20 hours. I started at 8am on the 23rd Dec and finished at 4am on the 24th Dec. Ouch! I was on triple time by the end of the shift - Which is now our holiday spending money... I say yah now but wasn't so excited at the time!

Yes it was the dreaded chrissy shift. And every year I swear I will NEVER do another, but this time I mean it!

I have even resigned from my position - for the third time. Pity they don't do farewell gifts/drinks there....
Im onto newer and better things.... My cake business at home, Fanciful Cakes. So if you need a cake - drop me a line!

So little time - So much to do...

I really wish I had more time for blogging- and scrapping and craft and reading and all the other really great things there are to do when you are busy - (but nothing is appealing when you are bored.)

These last three days were certainly fun filled with everything tightly squeezed in one after the other.
To sum up I have had in the last 3.5 days:
*2 Family Dinners
*1 Christmas Carols - also get Lucy to rehearsals for her part in the nativity as an 'angel'
*1 Wedding Cake (to make and deliver)
*1 Engagement Cake (to make)
* A full house to spring clean before said family dinners
*1 Mums group lunch
*1 Friends dinner
*10 hour shift at work
*2 hours driving time to get to work
*1 Fruit and veg market to shop at for xmas
* Christmas presents to buy/wrap
*18 month old little girl to look after (tupperware & 2nd drawer contents currently all over kitchen floor!)
*And a partridge in a pear tree.......

Whew! No wonder days just disappear - and we get xmas card saying hope we can catch up more in 2006...

Oh yeah and in amongst all that I still have to make time to sleep, exercise and worry about what Im eating so that the scales at my weight watchers meeting say nice things to me....

New Years Resolution.... Slow down and enjoy life more.... HA!

Talk to me in 12 months - (which we all know will feel like 5months!!!!)

Life with Little Lucy Loo

Lucy loves to 'type', and given the opportunity she will sit and bang about on the keyboard for quite a while - which in 18 month old terms is a good 2-3 mins.... Here is an example from tonight;

,,, ,,, , ,,,fffffvfffff m f,z7i3we8i84e89ed5edsr ucivufyt c8i 0o -p po i9 u mcx , x .flglgptoyhhllg;ghgi hlgkgkmgm nvnvhvjh kk,kkjhhyjj jmv

What an intelligent young thing - I'll interpret... it says "my mummy is the best". Hee Hee

Well actually she is cause she always manages to press the right keys to bring up all those great keyboard shortcuts (of which I can never manage!!), but then gets frustrated that the keys wont type anymore. So she then reaches for the mouse (just like mummy does) and moves it around while saying 'click'!! Unbelievable hey?

Often when we are at home during the day the house will fall silent, and that is when I know I need to begin my room to room search and rescue. A search that involves rescuing the room that the door was left open to!
Most often she tries the door to my cake room, where she knows that I keep buckets of chocolate. Many a time I have found her in there stuffing as many choc buds into her mouth as she can - and then tries to grab handfulls too. We have a choc-o-holic on our hands!

Tonight the silence was DEAFENING.

No she wasnt in the cake room, but was in our room - nappy off - weeing on the carpet! Yah!

Ahh parenthood...