Happy New Year!

Wow, what a busy few weeks! I hope you all had a good Christmas, a fun New Year and that 2010 is a great year for everyone. :)

Ours was good. The kids had a great time. Christmas Eve was eventful (our neighbour had a housefire and, me and the husband being the good samaritans that we are, went to the rescue) but Christmas morning was lovely. The kids woke up at a surprisingly reasonable hour (7.45, baby! That's practically a lie in!) and were so excited when they saw all the toys that Santa had left for them. Well, the girls were. Baby was decidedly unimpressed with most of his toys, and opted to play with the wrapping paper and empty boxes (I swear I'm just gonna wrap up a load of empty boxes for him next year, he'll have a blast and I'll save myself a fortune). He showed a slight interest in a little box of plastic dinosaurs, taking each one out of the box in turn and making a 'roar' sound, copying the husband. They held his attention for all of about 60 seconds, then he decided that he wanted to play with wrapping paper and boxes again. Oh, and Girl1's Disney princess kitchen (maybe he'll grow up to be a chef?).

The girls loved their toys, but were most excited over the extra treat in their stocking; a reindeer cookie that Mrs Claus baked- they're special, and only little girls who've been very, very good get one of those in their stocking. ;) Girl2 got a 'Mummy make me better' dolly- she was thrilled with it, although if I'm being entirely honest, I find it creepy. And annoying. It does this weird, hoarse cry when it's "sick", and it's cheeks glow (seriously. Maybe it's sick with radiation poisoning?). It only stops crying when you take it's temperature with the thermometer, and give it special medicine in the form of a plastic spoon, which is so small it's practically microscopic, so you can imagine how many times on Christmas day the spoon went AWOL and we were stuck listening to Baby Radioactive squawking. Fun times!

Our new year's eve was good, if not a bit quiet. We were both tired (see earlier blog entries re being too old for wild nights out) but we went out anyway, determined to see in the new year with a drink and a party popper. Alas, there were no party poppers, and there was this awkward period at around midnight where everyone was like "Is it midnight yet? How long's left? My watch says 3 minutes past twelve..." "Mine says ten to, it's not midnight yet" etc etc, and people start loudly counting down from 10 at random intervals, expecting people to join in (nobody did). We eventually came to the conclusion that it had probably passed midnight in the time that we were dithering over it, so wished each other Happy New Year and sang Auld Lang Syne.

So, now here we are. January, 2010. A whole decade into the new millennium. Where have the past ten years gone?!

Until next time,

Crazy Mother
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