Quiet times
I like these quiet days between Christmas and New Year. As a child they were filled with selection boxes for breakfast, large jigsaws, board games, time to read, and old films on the sofa with quality streets, and they are not so different now. No pressure to get out and make the most, just quiet pottering. I will be pleased when the children are big enough to enjoy a large jigsaw too, but am enjoying hanging out with them and their (huge number of) new toys.
We interrupted the peace yesterday for cBeebies Live! at the MEN arena. Lots of very excited (yet very well-behaved: cBeebies attracts a Very Nice crowd) preschoolers headed to Manchester to ingest sugar and wave glowy things at all their favourite cBeebies characters and, even more excitingly, Justin and Sarah-Jane! We sniggered to ourselves when some scally stagehand drove off in Edie McCredie’s bus (shouldn’t have left it unlocked in Manchester) but it was otherwise, and quite properly, aimed entirely at the children. Maggie mostly watched open-mouthed and almost unbreathing, though she did join in with some shouting and singing: Tamsin, who I had expected not to take much notice, was terribly excited by the whole thing, bouncing and clapping to the music and pointing at everything like crazy, as well as trying to escape to get down to the stage for a good look.
My sister and her family are coming back over today for New Year: it will be the first in some time where neither Suzanne nor I are either pregnant or newborn-wrangling so I wonder if we will manage to stay up? An early night has been in danger of becoming traditional, while Chris and Cameron play video games, but it might be nice to make the effort this year.
December 31st, 2007 13:01
We’re just having a quiet one. Nice meal, bottle of wine, Jools Holland on the tv. NY day lunch with Michaels’ Sister and Nephews (it’ll be manic!). Hope yours goes well, love to you all. See you in 2008!
January 1st, 2008 14:03
Happy new year! Hope you had a great evening!
x
January 2nd, 2008 10:20
Happy New Year Lisa! I hope 2008 goes well for you and your family.
January 2nd, 2008 10:28
BTW we were looking forward to a quiet night in after all our travels up north over the Christmas period. However, we were invited to our next door neighbour’s party at the last minute – they’d not seen us for ages, so hadn’t been able to ask us earlier. Each family was providing 10 quiz questions, so we had an hour to rustle up some questions on the theme of science and nature. The other rounds were – adverts picture round, general knowledge, music, film & TV, history & geography, sport. There were 4 teams and we each had a Joker to play on the round of our choice. We teamed up with another family and we won! Next door’s visitors from Edinburgh had brought a lovely prize, so we had to decide how to split a hamper between the 2 families. Luckily, the alcohol didn’t hamper our negotiating skills, so each family was happy with the resultant split. We retired to bed at 2am (thinking originally we’d be going about 10.30!), tired happy and gorged out on champagne and a mega buffet!