Sweet nothings

Merry Christmas to you!

These are our cards this year...

 

As you can see, its not the kids photo anymore. I can bribe two {usually} but the third lives five hours away most of the time, and the fourth my 'original baby' is not a happy photo partaker...  In fact, if you ever visit, you'd see the very rare and precious all four kids shots from over the years are cherished and on the walls. 
The cat hates dressing up, the chickens are not eggsactly keen ;)  so the newest baby of the family had to step up :) 
He was a total star, even if the jingle bells scared the bejesus out of him.  He gets on the nice list for this.
This was in October to enable the printers to create the big printed family cards, and the weather was gloriously .... warm!!! A little photoshop snow later and there you go --

MERRY CHRISTMAS to you and yours, from me and mine. Have a truly good one.

 

 

Daisy-isms....

Its been a while since I recorded what Miss Daisy has to say. 
Her older sister is a deep thinker, and very sharp smart, her eldest sister is a talented, delightful people person, her brother is a tad cynical but super clever, with the nicest kind streak ever... Daisy is many things, just like them, but she just has this way of wording things. No doubt she will outgrow it, but right now? I've a cross between a diva and Confucius. Wonderful, wonderful. Theres a lot of love out there for Daisy-isms.

Yesterday I am in the car with Daisy. Out of the blue she says 'I have a new quote' 
A new quote? I said thinking erm....what??
Yes, I thought of it the other day, she says, '-every door will open, you just need to find the right key' 

I mean! I have no idea where the profoundness comes from, but she absolutely has a point!
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I love you Mummy, you are the best Mummy I have, and I know I only have one but you'd still be the best even if I had two...
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Do you think Mollie will mind if her gift is small in size?
no dont be silly I reply, Some of the  most expensive or rare or special things are in tiny packages, I proceed to list all sorts of small things from diamonds to lucky coins, Mollie will not mind a bit.

there is a pause
then she says Id still rather have big gifts.
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We are changing the dressing on my wounded finger. I tell Daisy she neednt look but that I need someone to pass me the dressing. She looks. Its not a particularly pretty sight granted, but her next statement is rather harsh. Its okay Mummy, at least its just caused an ugly finger and not an ugly face. Ouch Daisy! LOL!
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Having recently been on a skiing trip with just her and Daddy, Daisy has accidentally called me Daddy two or three times in conversation.
Daisy I laugh, Do I look like  Daddy? 
Oh no she says, for a start you drink a lot less beer....
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We are gift shopping, and have only difficult people  left to buy for, I buy Mr Britguy something that I am not sure of, not quite sure if its right. I turn to the girls and say, what do you think? Do you think Daddy will like this?
Quick as a flash she says Its okay, Ill have a word with him and tell him to just say he does....

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Personally I cannot wait to hear her thoughts on Christmas! 

 

 

 

 

dear Karma, point made

I write this fairly slowly. I'm typing with one hand, which i can actually do fairly fast, its just those pesky little bits of punctuation that slow me down.

Why one handed? The other one is in a bandage. I decided to completely reshape the end and side of one of my fingers today, with a mahousive kitchen knife. making favourite soup. ouch. 
Things you might not be aware of if you edit your fingers quite severely -
Its more painful than falling off a galloping horse and breaking your collar bone {I have now done both}
There is a lot of blood in fingers. Nothing like a red sink to make your knees give way.
Seeing bits of your own actual finger on the side of a knife will make you throw up/faint/freak out.
No matter how matter of fact and capable you are with other peoples or the kids blood, and injuries, you might find you are totally not okay when its your own.
Its prob best to restock first aid cabinets. A single box of fun lumi glow in the dark plasters don't really help much when bleeding profusely.
You can still literally cry and scream like a baby even when forty something.
You can actually go pale grey. Never look in a mirror at that point. 
A&E see you really quickly when you walk in dripping blood. 
When the nurse says 'that dressing should be fine for a few days' you can be sure on you it will result in a tatty, blood stained, lopsided dressing in four minutes of leaving the hospital. 
Everyone asks what you have done if you wear a sling. Everyone. man in the shop, lady down the road....
Slings are useless and come undone. fifty billion time. 
taking sling off results in throbbing newly bleeding wound
Dressings designed to 'never stick to the injury' stick to the injury.
Unsticking said dressing will result in blood, tears and swear words you forgot you knew. 


I had a big list of things I must do and make before Christmas. ~I was not sleeping; I was stressed beyond stressed.  Reality check. exactly what is important?  Karma gave me a big fat painful hint I should slow down. NOW I hear it!! 

olympia Christmas...

baby, it's cold outside...

frosty is so pretty....

throwback thursday Dec 18th

 

Miss Mollie, August... I think about 2008? an old and faded actual film photo. 

december detail

 

rewarded

Found a digital layout I have never remembered to post here ... back in August this year. awwww....

playmates

humour me...