Day 102.........didn't step out the door.

Day 102.........didn't step out the door.

3 Girls and 4 Suitcases.

I can't even tell you what the temperature was outside, yesterday because I didn't check it. I didn't need to as we spent the day indoors. I can tell you that by mid afternoon, it was feeling a bit chilly indoors though but we are 'troopers' and just layered-up. Jen is struggling a wee bit with the temperature drop but she'll adapt. She had to get very snuggled-up by the time we watched our Christmas movie, after dinner.
I was wearing my new slippers that Jen gave me, when she returned from B.C, last week and they are lovely and toasty, especially with two pairs of socks on. I also had wooly tights under my jeans and a big hoodie on and so I was feeling very comfortable, despite the cool indoors. I may have to change the settings on the heating, if we are going to be in during the day, though but maybe not.
Laundry gets done on the weekend because the energy is cheaper. Yesterday, I ran out of room on the dryer, for the two loads I did. Ali and my laundry fitted on it grand but I will have to rejig the way I hang things, if I continue to do just one load of whites and one load of darks each week, on the same day.
A bit of me is glad that the dryer downstairs isn't the greatest. Oh, it dries the clothes quickly but it makes them very wrinkly and I don't like to iron so I treat the laundry in the same way as back home and I 'snap and hang' it.
I still have a Christmas sweater to hand wash, for Ali'. She bought it in a second hand store and wants it freshened-up. I daren't stick it in the washer in case it gets ruined. It's one of those sweaters that is so 'bad' that it is totally awesome.
I had plans for making some Christmas decorations but they didn't materialise, mainly because the girls were caught-up all afternoon doing a project for Ali's Film class. It sounded like they had fun, filming Ali' skyping her friends to make a 60 second movie about forgotten promises.....that of 'keeping in touch' I actually teared-up when they showed me the finished product.
Whilst they were busy, I kept myself occupied editing some stuff and posting another column, which seems to have disappeared in the same way that last weeks has. Not great and I have emailed the website for some help. Hopefully they will tell me that it's something simple and that the postings are there or at least tell me how not to lose the next one.
We got an invitation to Marys (my 'boss' or Ross' wife........so you can place her) for an early supper on Christmas Eve, which it took me ages to reply to. I found it really difficult to find the right words to decline her very kind offer. I realised that I didn't want to upset her or think badly of us which is something that I thought I'd gotten better at. Actually, I have gotten better because I would have been unable to refuse the invite at several points in the past. I won't go into that here but I do sense another Bach blog on Agrimony-lol.
Did I tell you that I bought a beautiful Poinsetta? Oh, it's gorgeous and healthy and is making the house a tiny wee bit Christmassy. If its leaves were stronger, I would just hang my few little decorations on it.
Ikea has a (real) tree for $20 which comes with a $20 voucher and so I think Jen and I will head there this week and get one. The $20 voucher will pay for some lights/decorations to put on it and I have a few little ornaments that people have already gifted us.
Jen wants a fluffy blanket for Christmas (I wonder why?) and has her eye on one of the 'better' Ikea ones and so the trip will be twofold. I still need to get a potato masher, to mash the spuds on Christmas so I'm hoping that Ikea have such a thing.
We still don't know what our schedule will look like on Christmas day........a first. It will all depend on what Andrews plans are. I've told him that he can make all his plans and to just let us know if and when he'll manage over for Chritmas dinner. It will be a very quiet, hopefully, hugely peaceful Christmas day.
And I need to close, it's Monday and I am off to work-yippeeee. Yet again, I am grateful to be feeling this way on the morning that most folk wish their weekend was longer.
Much love to all and I wish you all the ability to slow down this week and not get yourselves all caught up in the 'must do's' that so often spoil the run up to Christmas.
Lxxxx