Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house.. 

Not a creature was stirring not even a mouse. 

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care 

In hopes that St Nicholas would soon be there... 

- Clement Clarke Moore 

I hope you all have a fabulous Christmas.   PS I'll be away for a week or so, not sure if I'll have a chance to post but I will try! :)

Omdz, I totally forgot to post my reasons to be cheerful on Thursday! Better late than never? Right?

1) I've finished my Christmas shopping! Yay! Just grocery shopping to go...
2) El had her Nativity play at school "Not Such A Silent night" it was called! She wasn't on stage but I loved hearing her sing and doing all the actions, so cute! I am SO proud.
3) The kids break up from school this week - no more rushing around in the morning for a couple of weeks, hehe. I am really looking forward to Xmas, honestly, I can not wait! ;D

Sarah xXx

I've been feeling a little rundown lately. I don't know if it's because I'm coming down with something or because I am so stressed! The holiday season can be rather stressful can't it?! I don't know why I'm stressing about it really, everything is almost brought, plans are in place... but still I stress! Charlie has changed his mind about wanting a bike now and wants a mini remote control helicopter (??) instead but it's too late "Santa" already brought his bike. I really hope he won't be disappointed. I think once he's opened it, he'll be okay, especially as El and H have also got a new bike, they'll be able to play together on them, right? Someone please tell me it'll be ok, lol!
I'd really like to take the kids to see Santa next week, I just hope that there's somewhere around here that actually has a Santas grotto, usually they'd see him at a Christmas fare but there doesn't even seem to be any of those on. Perhaps it's still too soon to be thinking of things like that though? Why am I SO anxious about it all?! Ugh. I feel under pressure and I shouldn't because there's nothing to be "pressured" into. I don't know! Maybe I just need a goods nights kip, lol.



Charlie was off school today as he was poorly last night, some kind of tummy bug. He's better now though, thank goodness!
El is really, really excited about her Christmas performance tomorrow and Friday! I am too. I can only go to the Friday one but I am really looking forward to it!
H is doing good, too! He won a prize (an Olympics key ring thingy) for making the best Christmas card in his class. He used so much glitter, I'm still finding it in the bottom of his bag and book bag a week later LOL! We do love glitter in this house, hehe.

I'm not sure if I wrote about our Christmas crafts, we've been making salt dough ornaments and clear baubles filling with glitter (and perhaps chocolates when we make some of XMAS eve). It's really good fun! What kind of things do you make around Christmas time? I'd love some ideas!! I'm not good at baking, I wish I was. I even manage to mess up those pre-packaged ingredients/cookies/cakes LOL (don't ask how, I have no idea!)

Sarah xXx

Eek. A day late on posthing my reasons to be cheerful this week. I have been SO busy though.. Here's my reasons this week:


1) Last Saturday we went Christmas shopping to a different town. It was GREAT! I had no kids with me, I could take my time and not have to worry! It was truly fab. I picked up some lovely bargains, including the Vtech Mobi Go from Argos for just £24.97, down from £49.99!! And it comes with Disney Cars 2! Love a good bargain. And the ques in Argos actually wasn't too bad at all. I was impressed. I honestly had a lovely time Saturday, had a naughty, but nice Burger King for lunch. Hehe. Yummy.
2) Lotti, my kitten has been spayed. Yesterday. So when she is all healed and her stitches have disolved it won't matter if she goes outside. I don't know HOW many times I have had to hunt for her, she has escaped a few times when the kids have left the door open or when I've forgot to close a window while I've been cooking. It is such a relief. I felt terrible not being able to feed her the night before. At least it's all done now though. I just hope she heals soon.

3) We put our Christmas tree up the other day! It looks great. Or it will be looking great again after I've re-done it. The kitten decided she likes to pull the baubles off and tackle them LOL. She also tried to climb it a couple of times and it's looking a bit sorry for itself. Never mind, I'll re-do it when the kids are in bed.. as well as wrap the rest of the presents. I am seriously slacking on getting things wrapped up!!


Hope you all have a good weekend! :)
Sarah xXxXx

(although now it has a star on top instead of a wonky Santa that wouldn't sit straight on the top of the tree, lol!)
Sarah xXx