So this week I’ve noticed a little more glitter hanging round the place and a touch more twinkle even a dash more ho,ho,ho...
I love, love love it! From my six year old carefully helping the three year old find the numbers on his advent calendars to baking mince pies with stars on the top after school –(assembling rather than ‘baking’ would be technically more correct as we used a roll of co-op pastry and ajar of mince meat!)
We haven’t put the decorations up yet... I was so excited about buying a red tree on ebay which turned out not to be the promised BNIB and had a piece missing the following dispute dulled my sparkle for a while but I have to be strong and work my way up to it! Apparently, though, in my absence yesterday three (rather pathetic) trees have been madly decorated in my very small classroom!
I will venture down in the cellar soon and put them up with the kids ‘help’ and a mulled wine on stand by!
I saw a trailer for ‘Elf’ coming soon to a Sunday afternoon telly near you and the boys and I are getting excited after crying our way through ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ last week we think we’re ready for a giggle! Three cheers for channel 5 at Christmas time hip hip...
Yesterday I went to see my six year olds performance in ‘Santa’s on Strike’ in a busy school hall full of parents holding up iphones.
He had been a little put out that he did not really have a part rather being an ‘important member’ of the ‘choir’ they tried to lessen the blow for these children by putting them in costume (he and his little mates were dressed as cleaners, aprons, dusters and black clothing clutching fairy liquid bottles) and letting them stand at the front for one song – ‘Pitching in and helping out at Christmas!’
Needless to say the very religious in-laws did not wish to see this production (‘Do you fancy coming along to the nativity?’ I overheard my partner on the phone... ‘ Well he plays a cleaner... you’re busy? Oh well may be next year?’) and are still a little raw at our decision not to send him to the catholic school.
He really wanted to be an elf but I accepted that my clumsy, shy boy with speech difficulties was not going to be chosen for a lead role – not yet anyway.
‘Wouldn’t you think she’d be Mary?’ my cousin asked me about her confident, talented daughter when she was cast as .....a camel.
‘I would!’ I replied ‘At least an angel!!’
Finally I can’t finish without mentioning my clever, beautiful, talented niece who is starring in the Royal Exchange’s Christmas production – ‘Rat’s Tales’ (What you hadn’t heard? I’m sure I’ve mentioned it maybe once or twice!)
She is interviewed on the web site and says she is excited that all her family are coming to see her. It made me warm and fuzzy because family with all its quirks, traditions and let’s face it failings is as important to that eight year old as it is to me.
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