HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

Yes, it really is that time of year again, already, and I am for once reasonably organised. Hot hubby struggled through the snow to get the last of the food shop today while I stayed at home and made sure the fire didn't go out....girls were home due to adverse weather and I can't see them getting in tomorrow either as getting home could be an issue so Christmas holidays have started a few days early. the only sad thing is that means no carol service and nativity which is always one of the real highlights of the season.

So, that's 2009 almost over and I was only on May! Hope 2010 is a little slower.

This just in...

I saw this on my friend Michelle's page and I loved it! Watch right to the end, it's so funny.

A High Old Time at Highland Madness!!

I'm home again after a day and night away Christmas shopping in Aberdeen. Lots of lovely lights, lots of shopping and no I do not feel in the least bit guilty about missing pilates as I spent 5 hours trudging round shops with only one - yes ONE - tea stop. Hot hubby stayed at home with scrumpy while Bear was away at respite. It was me and my shopaholic sister in law hitting the town unsupervised! It has become an annual event, well this is the second year we've done it.

After Meg let me do something aside from fuss her (I left her! What was I thinking?? I was back! YAY!!) I checked my emails and found this which I thought was great! Still lots more Christmas stuff to do, but I made it back in time for the school coffee morning (so now it really is officially Christmas)

Hijack a Holiday!

HAPPY THANKS GIVING!!

To one and all but especially those across the pond!

Remembering how lucky we are is always a good thing but turkey and pumpkin pie will not be on my list of good things...bleuch!

Live and unleashed!

Click here for the link to BBC Scotland iPlayer and we're about 45 minutes in...I'm not sure if people outside the UK can see it but this was our four minutes of fame! Feel free to laugh, cry and comment - it's only up until 28th November so don't say I didn't warn you.

I'll not let it go to my head......

Had a call from the BBC. Our producer spoke to Press Office and now they want to use us for the advertisements for Children in Need.

Tesco shopping will never be the same again

- "Do I know you?"
- "Oh you may have seen me on the telly...."

Can you imagine it?? Oh this is just so funny!!

One neighbour is in on the reality TV joke and is primed to confirm if asked by the one who "happened to walk by" when we had our day filming. I'll let you know if it comes off, well, I'll get my people to tell your people.....

Confessions of a rotten mother

Scrumpy is very seldom naughty, and when she is it's short lived, but yesteray I went to check on her in her room to find that not only had she moved her pine double bed across the room in an attempt to get it out the door (again) she had also detached the head board. The bed is dead.

I sort of lost it. I didn't shout, but I dished out the punishment big time. It was the ultimate and in retrospect it was maybe a little heavy handed. I confiscated the video remote control for two sleeps.

She cried.

For about an hour, she cried. A little puffy face came and said "Control disappeared"

"Yes" I said but as the word left my mouth I realised all too late what I'd said and she crumpled again - "Disappeared" means gone for good. I tried my best to convince her, to get her to understand it was not disappeared just gone for two sleeps (a concept she can understand) but the sobbing kept getting in the way. We went through all our usual comfort things, reassurance things, what's happening things - including the return of the remote - I did all I could do.

I am a bad mother.

She cried herself to sleep. Scrumpy never cries, and I made her cry herself to sleep. I'm hoping I have done the right thing in sticking to my original plan and not caving (which I really wanted to do!) but only time will tell. Tomorrow the ordeal will be over.