some more photos

over for another year

Dont you just love christmas but before you know it we will be wrapping pressies and writing cards we never post !!!!!!

What a great day we had. Archie had a bit of a cry in the morning and wouldnt come into the livingroom as he wanted his bobo but after 5 mins he eventually came running into the livingroom and forgot about his bottle of milk for about 2 mins !!!!!! He ran in and the first thing he saw was his tinky winky but I dont think he realised all the presents were for him as there was just so much although the packaging does take up quite a bit of space for some toys so once all the packaging was away it didnt look like he had got as much as we originally though ( although still too much )

Archie woke about 7am and I went through to the livingroom to wait for him while Mark went to get him up with his cow cup and it took him 3 hours to open all his presents. Not due to the amount but he was really good and playing with everything as he opened them. About 12pm my mum and Haley and Graham came up to see us for a few hours and to have a few drinks ( I was sober all day as was driving ) then Isa and Andy came up about 1pm before we headed off to bonnyrigg to Davy and Pams for the day. Archie was in his element with his cousins and Jay the dog. We had a lovely meal then at about 7.20 Archie advised me he wanted his bath then to go to bed. He fell asleep about 8pm and we left him there until 9pm when we picked him up and put him in the car.

I got so spoiled it was unbelievable - I got far mroe than I expected -

Victoria's secret PJ's ( cheers Haley )

Terry Pratchett book

£100

Girls Aloud CD

dressing gown

more jammies

2 x slippers

100ml chanel perfume and body lotion

Victoria's secret knickers

soap and glory smellies

£30 voucher for beauty salon

chocolates

So very chuffed with all my pressies

I couldnt list all of archie's presents but his fav seems to be the £3.00 cars I got him !!!!! I now know better than to spend lots of money on him and in future will just get him lots of cars !!!

Boxing day - we had the meal and I must admit it was delicious even if I did cook it myself. We had Roast potatoes, Roast carrots and Parsnips, chicken breast cushions stuffed with sage and onion stuffing and of course, brussel sprouts. Does anyone actually eat them at any other time than Christmas ??????

Myself, mum and Haley had been at the sales in the morning and I ended up with a new goose feather duvet, goose feather pillows ( wasn't planning on buying them but they were reduced from £32 to £16 each - bargain ) 2 pairs of new boots and a handbag so done well. Mum got 2 pair of boots as well as loads of other stuff for her house but the queue in Next where she got stuff for her house was terrible. It took us about 30 mins to get served and all I got in next was a £3 table runner !!!!

Archie has been doing OK with his cow cup although still asks for his old bobo and one morning he asked if santa had put it back under the tree yet !!!!! I found the valve for the cow cup so he has to suck the milk out of it and it seemed to work a treat as last night he was sleeping within 15 mins rather than the 75 mins the previous night it took him to settle. Mum has just been up and dropped off another 2 cow cups for us.

I will finish off with some photos of us over the festive.

Hope you all had a great day and got loads of presents

Countdown

Well the wee man is now having his last bottle of milk and will be sleeping in about 10 mins ( hopefully as my mulled wine will be getting cold ). Santa is coming to take all Archie's bottles away to give them to the babies and will give Archie some toys instead of his bottles. Hopefully it will work although I can imagine it being a nightmare the next few days !!!!!!!

The plan for tonight is

Open my christmas eve present ( jammies no doubt ) from haley
Watch It's a wonderful Life
Put out Archie's presents in the livingroom just before we go to bed
wrap marks present ( I forgot to wrap one of them oops )
Move the bottles that are all wrapped up for santa to 'take' - could you imagine what would happen if I forgot to move them !!!!
re-polish 2 nails as I had to move something before they had dried
put self tan on
drink more mulled wine
eat the mince pie on the fireplace and drink the milk( although Archie nearly finished it already )
sweep the floor in my kitchen and give it a quick clean ( the floor everything else is done )
and relax...........................

I alway make sure I am in bed before midnight ( apart from the years we go to the midnight service ) but since having archie you could never tell previously when he would wake in the morning. Last year was 9.30am although this morning was 7.15am so will settle with that.

The elves left a little pressie for archie while he was in the bath. Some fleecy jammies and the night before christmas book. He was in the bath and I got the bells out although not sure he was too impressed as he cuddled into me and told me to tell the elves to go away hehe

Anyway I am off to have my last browse through the web before I have to go and sort everything out so I hope santa is good to you and you all get lots of nice pressies

Lots of love and merry christmas

L xx

christmas journal

is not off to a good start !!!!!!!!

So far I have only done 2 ( yes I repeat 2 pages) in 17 days. My excuse is I dont have my photos so cant possibly do them but really I am just being lazy as I can use photos from last year so note to self - get more pages done - at last another 3 before christmas day !!!!!!!!!

had a great few days. We went down to Telford to Mark's works do on friday and stayed in this gorgeous room with wooden beams. We thought they had mixed our room up with the bog bosses as it was so nice. we slept in though until 10.30 ( never went to bed until after 3am ) so missed our breakfast which wasnt too great with a hangover but made up for that later when we stopped at a service station and had a costa coffee ( or something very similar ) where we had yummy bacon toasted sandwiches .

Archie was staying at his grans on saturday night so we had the house to ourselves and he wasnt due back until late Sunday afternoon so we had another lie in on sunday - I havent had a lie in like this for years ( well 2 1/2 ) so it was a pleasent experience.

Not much else to say but will add the 2 photos of my journal so far. I wil use the bind it all at the next crop so will really need to get going with the pages !!!!!

I have also added a photo of archie's santa sack that I thought I would never fill ( OMG that boy ahs far too many toys and all he wants is a filmore ( from cars ) a Ninky Nonk and an upsy daisy book. I maybe should have just got him that and saved myself a fortune !! ah well I can always do that next year

Oh christmas tree..............

After trying to wait until next week to put our tree up, Archie has talked us into putting it up already. He went out with Gran and Paw on Wednesday and asked them if mummy and daddy will put his tree up soon so we thought we had better put one up soon.

So far he has been really good and hasn't taken any decorations off but will stroke the fluffy ones. It is just such a great feeling when the tree goes up as I always think it doesn't feel like christmas until the tree is up. There is nothing better than sitting in the livingroom with all the lights out apart from the tree.

I have nearly wrapped all my pressies and just need to buy a bottle of whisky and a cd then its all finished. My plan of action over the next few days is

sort all the clean clothes that are in a pile in my bedroom

Iron Archie's clothes that are in this pile !!!!!

finish writing christmas cards

finish wrapping presents

Do some pages for my christmas journal ( still only done one page and that isnt really finished yet !!)

I have added a few photos of my chrsitmas decorations just to get me in the festive mood, not that I need it as I LOVE this time of year

its official. I am now 33 yrs old !!!!

Had a great day yesterday. Got some lovely pressies, the usual DVD's and some Terry pratchett books ( good Omens and the Hogfather ) and also got some lovely charms from my sister and mum from Links of London to go on my sweetie bracelet ( photo added along with the gorgeous box it came in, dont you just love having a birthday in December ) which I just love.....

Myself, Haley and mum went to see White Christmas at the playhouse last night and it was fantastic although I think haley lost the plot a bit as she hasn't even seen the film so think I will need to be giving her a borrow. I though everyone had seen White Christmas !!!!!!!! We sprinted out as soon as it finished, pushing passed all the old buddies just so we could get to the taxi rank fast and I think we were just about the first ones at the taxi rank. Might be old but I can sure move when I need to hehe...

So what has been happening since I last updated.

Well obviously I am a year older

Archie has decided that all his teddies are called George !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not just one but EVERY one.

I found Archie UNDER his bed when he woke up crying after falling out. Lord knows how he got there as his bean bag is at the side of his bed. I walked into his room and couldnt find him but could hear him. Most confusing at 3am. I had to pull him out from under his bed which would have been quite funny at any other time of the day. Just not during the night. I had tried to explain to archie to shout ' fallen out of bed' when he falls out so we dont ignore him !!!!!!!

hhhmm not much else so will sign off as Archie's bath time.

take care

The start of my birthday weekend

It started a bit earlier than I would have liked. Been up since about 5am coughing and just as I was falling back to sleep archie woke up at 6.30am gggrrrr Anyway we went down town today and went for a meal at Grape. To be honest I have had better service in there before as it took us an age to get served and when you have a littlie you just want to order food as fast as possible so they dont get too restless. While in grape we bumped into Nadia, my old counter manager when I worked with Clarins and she was meeting Marielle who now works in Harvey Nics so it was great seeing them both. We had just about finished our lunch and beverage ( long vodka yum yum ) when my mum and haley walked in so they sat with us for a while then we left them to their meal and toddled off to the winter wonderland.

Archie has started watching the magic roundabout ( I bet he would never believe me if I told him I had magic roundabout wall paper in the 70's !!!!) so when he saw the carousel he was convinced it was the magic roundabout so Mark took him on. He loved it and wasnt too happy when he came off so a while later he went on again but at £2.50 per person it isnt cheap.

It was so cold today though so we just headed back about 3pm. We were really wanting to stay until it got a bit darker so archie could see the lights but we lost his blanket ( gutted as it was one he has had since he was born ) so we just popped on the bus and headed back.

Archie also had great fun choosing what to put on his advent calender - he settled for the train but keeps asking for it down and I keep having to try and explain that its not a toy and he can only put one thing on a day ( Bit hard to try adn explain that to a 2yr old though )

Sunday I am planning to go the the craft fair but WILL NOT spend lots of pennies. I will get my secret santa for the dec crop and a few bits for my crimbo journal and that will be all.

Anyway, I am off to heat up as freezing