Merry Christmas

 Wishing you a merry Christmas. We have been to church for the service this morning  and are about to go to our daughter's for Christmas dinner. We are going to have a lovely day spent with family and with good food and I hope you enjoy your day too : )

It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas

 One week to go and I am suddenly way behind in my preparations. I have been in school every day for the last two weeks and it will be wonderful when the pay cheque finally catches up with me but I have been too tired to get on with Christmas in the evenings. I have been trying to write a few cards every evening this week and I have managed to get them in the postbox today on the last posting day for second class post. I have also written cards for the neighbours today too. So that is two items ticked off on my list. That just leaves a rather long rest of list...

We are going to younger daughter's for Christmas Day so I am not hosting anybody. I am very pleased about that since I am now so far behind. We always give the grandchildren stockings and I need to sort out my little stash of things that I have been putting away all year. If left to the last minute, it can be a rather expensive exercise to fill stockings for all of them. I need to sort out the pile of things that I have collected and see where the gaps are and then go shopping to fill them. but it is church tomorrow morning, the carol service tomorrow evening, baking for the church coffeeshop all Monday, the annual family outing all day Tuesday. And Wednesday is partly booked, as are Thursday and Friday.

Can I have an extra couple of free days before Christmas please?

New job title.

 I now have a new job title. All of us parents and grandparents have a myriad job titles as we try to cope with whatever life and children throw at us. But now I have a new one to add to my list. A couple of days ago, my two youngest granddaughters came to see me with an armful of teddies each and asked me to mend them. Neither of their parents is very good with a needle and thread so they came to me. Grandparents are obviously expected to be able to fill in any gaps in their parents' skill set. "Thank you Granny," they both said. "You are the best teddy vet ever." Tonight they came and collected their furry friends, who are all now hole free, and went home happy : )

Christmas is coming

 Well, I did not enjoy my booster very much. The nurse said that if I had a bad reaction then it meant that I had built up a good level of immunity. Suffice to say that I must have built up an excellent level of immunity...

We have our first carol service tomorrow and it will be led by my husband. At church we have a monthly afternoon tea for elderly folk in the community and that is tomorrow afternoon. The lady who runs it is excellent at baking so it will be an extra special Christmas afternoon tea : ) Hopefully the folk who attend won't be too full of cake to sing some carols.

The family have been sorting out who goes to whose house for Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day. So we are not hosting anybody but instead get to spend a day with each of our kids. And they all get to spend a day with each other. I have to say that I am really pleased that they all want to spend time with each other. If one of them needs a bit of help with something, then they phone us or one of their siblings, depending on what it is. 

I have the cards ready for me to write. First, though, I need to write a letter to send out with the cards to far flung relatives that we don't see very often. I always enjoy getting their letters each Christmas. I have half the items ready for the hampers but still need to do some baking for them. That will have to wait a little while so that the cakes are not stale.