@Slugsta Sounds like you had a good time despite A & E visit, sorry to hear you are tearful now.
I've had a very busy time, not helped by teenage tantrums. Got to bed at 2.37am xmas day after finishing the wrapping, both children still have stockings, and due to tantrums on Sunday and Monday my time slots for wrapping disappeared, we go out on xmas eve across the road (started going when dau 3 as their dau is 2 year's older, so her mum always talks of remembering son when he was crawling, he's now 13!!)
Kids finished school on 21st around lunchtime, so I cut my ride short (still not that fit but 3rd Friday running I managed 40 miles with a cake stop) to get back and take them to the Christmas markets in Chester, as the weather had been bad every time we had tried to go earlier in the month. And it has been pretty much non stop since then, son did scout bagpack at SAinsbury's that evening, so I picked up chicken then (we don't like Turkey and the final few bits - it was quiet).
I had had to work on Thur 20th as some last minute urgent work came up on late Wed which didn't help.
thank goodness for Amazon Prime, as I ended up ordering things fairly last minute which worked out.
22nd kids did a cyclocross race, OH took them, it was really really muddy and I've only just got round to finishing off cleaning up the campervan today, ready for tomorrow's cyclocross race. I fitted alot of chores in whilst they were out, including annual contact lens check.
Sunday 23rd it rained heavily here, kids and OH did cycling club xmas tea and OH then went on the ale run which followed, my club had done xmas tea (really lunch - no idea why it's called tea) a few weeks ago, and only did ale run on 23rd, I caught up with them for midmorning start but then was detailed to be available to fetch kids - spent time cleaning more mud from race. I did my mum's fortnightly food shop and a friend called round unexpectedly as she was visiting from Majorca.
24th was very cold for cycling but I got out and did 25 miles (wouldn't have done if I'd known was going to lose time to teenage strop later) made more mince pies (baked 40 on 16th, all gone by 19th) and went to neighbours.
As ever had mum for xmas, dau commented either she is a bit better than normal or she understands and enjoys the routines of Christmas so seems better, I'm sure it is the latter, has been the same the last few years, her sense of humour is still there and OH wore antlers for xmas dinner (new tradition started last year) so she was busy decorating them with wrapping paper (like mum of old would have done). She clearly really enjoyed her day, and was pleased with her presents - I got her a 1930s and 1950s scrapbook which I saw mentioned on another thread on TP as xmas suggestion. Also her favourite Thorntons.
Boxing day saw 3 of us cycling, which means the washing mountain carries on relentlessly.
And then on 27th we went to MILs for the day, best part of 6 hours of driving, which OH did all of. None of us really want to stay with her for a lot of reasons. I'll carry on later, as a long post needed about visit to MIL.
I've had a very busy time, not helped by teenage tantrums. Got to bed at 2.37am xmas day after finishing the wrapping, both children still have stockings, and due to tantrums on Sunday and Monday my time slots for wrapping disappeared, we go out on xmas eve across the road (started going when dau 3 as their dau is 2 year's older, so her mum always talks of remembering son when he was crawling, he's now 13!!)
Kids finished school on 21st around lunchtime, so I cut my ride short (still not that fit but 3rd Friday running I managed 40 miles with a cake stop) to get back and take them to the Christmas markets in Chester, as the weather had been bad every time we had tried to go earlier in the month. And it has been pretty much non stop since then, son did scout bagpack at SAinsbury's that evening, so I picked up chicken then (we don't like Turkey and the final few bits - it was quiet).
I had had to work on Thur 20th as some last minute urgent work came up on late Wed which didn't help.
thank goodness for Amazon Prime, as I ended up ordering things fairly last minute which worked out.
22nd kids did a cyclocross race, OH took them, it was really really muddy and I've only just got round to finishing off cleaning up the campervan today, ready for tomorrow's cyclocross race. I fitted alot of chores in whilst they were out, including annual contact lens check.
Sunday 23rd it rained heavily here, kids and OH did cycling club xmas tea and OH then went on the ale run which followed, my club had done xmas tea (really lunch - no idea why it's called tea) a few weeks ago, and only did ale run on 23rd, I caught up with them for midmorning start but then was detailed to be available to fetch kids - spent time cleaning more mud from race. I did my mum's fortnightly food shop and a friend called round unexpectedly as she was visiting from Majorca.
24th was very cold for cycling but I got out and did 25 miles (wouldn't have done if I'd known was going to lose time to teenage strop later) made more mince pies (baked 40 on 16th, all gone by 19th) and went to neighbours.
As ever had mum for xmas, dau commented either she is a bit better than normal or she understands and enjoys the routines of Christmas so seems better, I'm sure it is the latter, has been the same the last few years, her sense of humour is still there and OH wore antlers for xmas dinner (new tradition started last year) so she was busy decorating them with wrapping paper (like mum of old would have done). She clearly really enjoyed her day, and was pleased with her presents - I got her a 1930s and 1950s scrapbook which I saw mentioned on another thread on TP as xmas suggestion. Also her favourite Thorntons.
Boxing day saw 3 of us cycling, which means the washing mountain carries on relentlessly.
And then on 27th we went to MILs for the day, best part of 6 hours of driving, which OH did all of. None of us really want to stay with her for a lot of reasons. I'll carry on later, as a long post needed about visit to MIL.
