1. Grateful for the help of lovely Dawn and Daphne as they take Isla to and from pre school and deliver supplies of bog roll and formula while I am house bound with an upset tummied Doris.
2. The enforced day at home makes me stop for a while as I am soooo tired.
3. In bed by 9pm, under my new Helen Moore throw.*
*Latte, if you want to know!
1. The rest of us have breakfast out while Doris goes to a pizza making party.
2. A visit to the big FC at Brookside Garden centre. Kirsty is dazzled by all the sparkle.
3. Trying out the hair accessory that came with her pressie from Father Christmas in his grotto.
1. Insanity – feels like hard work today but encouraging words from my pairs work partner at the end sees me through.
2. Doris’s big Christmas party night out, with her friends Tilly and Olivia.
3. Six of us Stephens roaders pile into a cab for dinner at a former Stephens roader couple. Lovely.
1. Isla crafts various bits for me, including an envelope to keep it all in!
2. After the busyness of last weekend, a quieter start to the weekend.
3. I order the beef Wellington for Christmas Day, four weeks today!
1. Isla and Kirsty’s christening mugs have arrived in the post from uncle Ju and Aunty Atsuko.
2. Doris’s friend Delilah’s Mum picks her up from the school trip ‘the most epic school trip ever Mum!’ so I can take Isla to her swimming lesson.
3. Thursday nights mean another episode of Dectectorists and quite possibly the best thing in TV (and certainly the only thing I watch on BBC4!)
1. A quiet morning gives me a chance to wrap a few Christmas parcels.
2. Pizza for tea
3. Doris’s friend Tilly comes to tea and she, Doris, Isla (and Kirsty?!) act out a nativity in the spare room, complete with tea towels on heads!
1. A grown up meeting about potential work where I have to wear proper smart clothes. Been a while since I’ve had one of those!
2. Tying Isla’s hair in a topknot, using just her hair. It’s really growing now.
3. Reading Mackenzie Crook’s The Windvale Sprites with Doris. Is there no end to this man’s talents – actor, writer, and he’s even drawn the illustrations!
1. While the grandparentals are still here, I can leave the younger two while I dash to school with Doris. Good thing as it’s nippy out.
2. A few of us club together childcare wise to cover various appointments/teaching sessions etc. It’s a one off so far but I like the commune-style feel to it and it all feels much easier than dashing here there and everywhere.
3. Doris gets my phone Siri to address me as ‘Doris’. She’s cheeky but I have to admire her chutzpah and tech ability quite frankly!
1. “It’s Christening Day!” Isla runs in shouting in the style of Anna “it’s coronation day” from Frozen.
2. Feeling emotional as the girls are christened and thinking a lot about Mum. Lovely to have family and friends with us.
3. Much fun at the ‘after show’ party. I am pleased to be able to us our wedding cake sugar craft flowers and ribbon again.
1. Charity massage day at our physio’s and the 26year old part time firefighter physio does mine. It’s a hard life…
2. We sneak for a coffee while the grandparentals are watching the kids. It feels lovely to be able to sit and chat for a while in the day time, rather than on a night out, without someone tugging on your leg.
3. Happiness is… a pair of silver shoes your Mum has fished out of the loft.
Three Happy Thoughts 