just another morning here

Another relaxed day here; Steve has only worked for half of the day. This morning was spent mooching around, chatting to friends online (just for a change ), while the children played with Mollie.

This afternoon I’ve taken the Christmas tree down, it was drying out and annoying me generally. Wanted to do it before film night last night but didn’t quite manage it. It’ll be hanging around for ages though – the council are collecting them but not for a couple of weeks – it would help if I knew which recycling schedule week we’re on but I’ve really lost track! So I’ve been hoovering and sorting out, which always feels good. My cake-a-month friend has popped round for a visit which has been lovely, and the piano teacher is here with the girls.

I’m so pleased that we found her, she has now been here for half an hour longer than she should have been, just mucking around with Anna on the piano. It’s lovely – I do it a bit with the girls but it’s really nice that Laura makes the time for them as well – they are really learning to enjoy music all round, not just go through the mechanics of learning to play. Something I count as important She’s taught the girls some improvisation thingummy as well, and they love fiddling around with it together. Obviously she does all the scales and pieces etc. as well; I’ve paid for Anna’s Grade One exam entrance today, so that’s definite for March sometime!

Have played lots of games today – Junior Articulate, which the kids had for Christmas (pretty much the same as the adult version, just slightly easier things on the cards and a shorter board). Joe and I have been playing Mindbender (Woolies version of Mastermind) this afternoon too.

We’re being boring this evening and not doing anything in particular to celebrate, as per usual, I’m very bah humbug about New Year’s Eve! But Happy New Year all round

The New Blogging Year has not started well. For some reason I haven’t been able to see my blog from home all day. I am most peeved, miffed, and cheesed off. It had better be back soon, otherwise I’ll get withdrawal symptoms.

Apart from that, we’ve had a nice New Year’s Day, I cooked roast beef for dinner which was fantastic (even though I do say so myself – a roast dinner here is a rarity so it’s worth mentioning), we’ve taken bikes out to the park, played playstation some more, and we all enjoyed watching Carrie’s War together, which will have been vaguely educational I’m sure.

Anna also shared one of her Christmas games with us, ‘Categorically Speaking’, from WHS, where you had to pick letters and categories, then write down things in each category that began with the letter. Anna lost badly but still enjoyed playing the game, and actually did very well to get the points she did!

Anyway leave a comment if you can see this, it’ll make me feel better )

… and the last blog entry of 2003. We’re having a relaxed time here, our friends arrived yesterday late afternoon – just a little while after I came downstairs and found Josiah asleep like this – couldn’t resist blogging a pic, it was so cute!

This morning we had a full house – the children had friends round watching DVDs upstairs (Indiana Jones again), while we had other friends round downstairs. Josiah enjoyed having Ethan to play, and we especially had fun with the eye toy … took a pic for those of you who haven’t seen one – you can spot the little camera just in front of the tv, and if you look carefully in the photo you can see Joe and his friend in the picture on the screen. It’s such fun!

This afternoon we all went bowling, we needed to get out of the house and do something, and this fitted the bill nicely! I think it’s the first time Joe’s really taken part (he and I were a team, because my finger wasn’t up to it – I dropped a mug earlier because it just gave up!) and he really enjoyed it.

This evening we’re being boring and sitting at home to see the New Year in. We watched ‘Anna and the King’ earlier – great film, daft time of day to show it – and now we’re playing Broken Sword 3on the PS2 with our friends, we have a long history of enjoying adventure/strategy games together – long nights at Bible College were spent in front of the PC playing Monkey Island and Broken Sword so it’s a bit nostalgic for us, too! Plenty of wine here, too ;o)

Happy New Year to one and all … xx. Have to go now, I’m being told off for being an antisocial blogger!