For Christmas our neighbors, who live on the other side of our semi-detached house and share our path, bought their son a basketball hoop. So every morning and every nap time this kid is out bouncing the freaking ball. They ball, on top of being noisy, is bouncing a mere few feet from my car. [...]
Archive for December, 2008
This is gonna do my nut in!
Posted in Uncategorized on December 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The birds in the back garden.
Posted in Garden, Thoughts, Uk, home, tagged birds, musings, Thoughts on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Now that we no longer have a cat we have taken to throwing stale bread and the crusts that my son wont eat to the birds in the back garden. I have really enjoyed watching them have a nice winter meal of bread and sometimes a bit of Nutella on it. I have fallen in [...]
Cheeky Little Car Mad Monkey.
Posted in Thoughts, children, family, older mother, parenting, tagged kids on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My nearly 3 yr old son is car mad. For Christmas he got a bunch of the Characters from Cars, his favorite movie. He was so excited. Played all day.
So it came time for bed. We went through the nightly routine. We head upstairs for bed and I notice he has his hand on his [...]
Good Bye Christmas, Hello Boxing day.
Posted in Uncategorized on December 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What a lovely Christmas. Probably the best I have had in years. We had a lovely morning. My son was so excited and happy opening his presents. He was so excited that Father Christmas had come and left presents. He needed no help in unwrapping his presents. It was so much fun to watch him [...]
Christmas Eve and the UK Fridge.
Posted in England, Thoughts, Uk, expat, living abroad, tagged christmas eve, friges, Uk on December 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Its Christmas eve here in the UK. Time, once again, to remind me just how bloody small the fridges are here. The fridge in the UK is about a quarter of the size of the fridges in the states. This is because A) people used to just shop daily for what they needed and B) [...]
Coronation Street Previews and Catch up-updated site
Posted in Uncategorized on December 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Its Mimiss time.
Posted in Thoughts, Uk, children, family, home, older mother, parenting, tagged children, Christmas, holiday, Thoughts on December 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have to admit that most of my adult life I have hated Christmas. It always felt like the world was rubbing my nose in the fact that I was single. I didn’t get married until I was I was 35, so I spent many years watching everyone else have “family fun” or telling me [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Every day we make a point of watching the BBCs Something Special. My son, who will be 3 soon, loves this show. Its a pretty good toddler show and he has learned a lot from it. Its really geared for kids 4-7.
Justin, aka Mr Tumble does a wonderful job. Most of the show is [...]
Christmas cards and the UK.
Posted in Uncategorized on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I think that the last year I lived in California I didn’t even bother with Christmas cards. I was in the process of selling my condo. I was so busy getting things together for my move to the UK that I don’t remember sending any cards. To top it off, my wonderful step-dad was dying [...]
