Nemma’s Diary

Christmas and New Year…..(Its a long post so grab a cuppa!)

03 Jan 2008 2 Comments

by Nemma in Day to day stuff, Days out, Family, fun, Funny stuff, Kids having fun, Milestones, toys Tags: christmas 07, kids, presents, santa, train sets, xmas 07

Firstly Hppy New Year to everyone who reads the blog!

As you’ve probably guessed from the lack of decent updates here recently, its been pretty manic since Molly came to live with us!

Christmas morning was an early start, 6am!!!!!!!!!!!! As you can imagine, after 4 night shifts at work, I was shattered and the kids werent too impressed with being up at that time either! The reason we got up so stupidly early is because we were expecting a visit from santa at 7am bringing more presents that had been let at Mama’s and Grandad’s house instead of here.

Santa finally turned up at 8.15 after Karl rang him to see where he was. We were told that Santa had decided not to get us up early because I’d been at work late. Brilliant you might think? Only problem was that santa didnt bother to actually tell us, so we had two shattered hyper kids sat there waiting for santa arriving and two iritated parents!

But ho hum!

When he did arrive the kids faces were well worth the early morning I thought Jack was going to cry he was so excited! We’ve got some lovely photo’s of them sat on his knee. I’ll post them up later or at the bottom of this post.

By this time we were struggling to see our living room floor at all, there were so many presents!

later on in the morning we went up to my mum and dad’s for dinner, By this time the kids were twigging onto the fact that today was present day, so were becoming experts at unwrapping them at lightening speed!

We never know what My Mum and Dad are getting the kids, so you can imagine how surprised we were to find that santa had bought them a train set with a big table to keep it all in. Thankfully this was a “stay at Grandma and Grandads” toy! God knows where it would have fit in our house lol

For about the first hour or so, all other presents got ignored despite or best efforts to distract thm from the train set! lol.

more presents were unwrapped and there was a brief visit from Uncle Frank and Auntie Pauline with lods more pressies!

Dinner as usual was lovely. This year my two cousins had dinner with us rather than tea which meant they got to see the kids properly, I dont thikn James has ever met Luke properly before! lol (James finished Uni in Hull this year, and Alex has started at Lincoln this year)

After an afternoon of relaxing (pffft, fat chance with my two running round!) we went up to Karls Mums, madness as usual, but nice to have everyone together. (apart from danny, lesley and the kids who didnt want to drive)

I think it was about 9ish that we got home, the kids had a quick play with new toys then toddled off to bed. To be honest I dont think we were far behind them!

Boxing day we had a lazy morning before heading off to my Auntie Jeans to see her for an hour or so. She had bought the kids some gorgeous pj’s, really soft brused cotton ones that they look really nice in! She was babysitting her friends grandson, Luke was extremly confused as to why there was a baby at Auntie Jeans!!!!!!!

We left there and headed to Karls dad’s. We dont speak to them often and Karl hasnt really had much to do with his dad’s side of the family for years, but we recently had a christmas card from his cousin Jo so at least knew a couple of people there. We didnt stay late as it was my staff chrsitmas do.  Karl nipped up with me for a bit with the kids, then he came home while I staggered around sutton for a bit. (staggered being the operative word!)

Other than that the whole christmas period had been quite busy, We’ve been to Meadowhall a couple of time, and it was Karls birthday yesterday so me and the kids got up and dcorated the car with balloons.

Not really much else to tell to be honest.

Its my new years resolution to update the blog a bit more though. Now the pups calming down a bit I should have a bit more time!

So Happy New year everyone! Hope you all had a good christmas!

All the best for 2008