Thrifty Thursday

This 20p egg cup just had to come home with me yesterday because it did, quite literally, have my name on it.

Friendship

Our 1st walk of the New Year

The good bits

The bad bits....

'I don't want to go for a walk.'

'I'm tired.'

'I'm hot.'

'I don't want to carry my own coat.'

'How much further?'

'I'm hungry.'

'I'm thirsty.'

'Can we get a taxi back?'

'How far away is the car?'

AAARRRGGHHH!!!!!!

Happy New Year

We had our, somewhat delayed, Boxing day get together with G's family today in Salisbury.
Lovely food, lovely presents and lovely family time.
What started as a family snuggle on the sofa turned into a let's all squash mum photo opportunity.




Who knows what 2011 will bring for us, but it's got off to a squashy good start!

Santa's Little Helper

Christmas Part 2

T spent Christmas day in various states of happiness.

This face says ' oh I have got a remote control dalek!'
(thank you to Sainsburys for the half price toy sale which made this much more affordable!)

This face says 'Yay I have the Wii game I really, really wanted!'

And this face is just pure happiness.

(Thank you to G's work colleague to decided to sell her Singstar game and microphones the week before Christmas for £5 as otherwise we wouldn't have had the many hilarious moments we have had over the past few days!)

In contrast this is one of the few smiles S managed Christmas morning as she was feeling so poorly.

This is how S spent most of Christmas morning, snuggled under the quilt Diane made her last year.

Thankfully S brightened up for a while in the afternoon (although she was sick at bedtime for the second night running) and wore her Christmas dress as she wanted to show it to Nanny and Auntie C.

On Boxing day we were due to go to Salisbury to spend the day with G's family but his mum and sister are both ill so those celebrations have been postponed to Saturday. My mum was ill Boxing day (nothing to do with my cooking I hope!) and I seem to have developed another cold. I've never known a Christmas where so many people have been ill!

Christmas Part 1

I wasn't planning on doing this in stages but Blogger is taking AGES to upload photos.
So the first offering is us all in our silly table present finery.

Scarf: present from the children
Drink: Sainsbury's Clementine bucks fizz
Purple hair clip: out of one of the crackers

G looking like Elton John's younger brother!

My mum wore her hat all through lunch.

Not the most flattering photo ever taken of my sister but certainly one of the funniest.

T wearing my hat and my sister wearing hers. How good of her to accessorise her scarf to match so well!