White Christmas...

Santa came to our house and no one elses this year... well he broke his back carrying all this guff for my lot you see...

sorry 'bout that boys n girls..


I panic bought okay? I do it ever year.. I start out with great intentions.. and I shop early, in fact I start usually in the January sales and in preparation of their (and others) birthdays... only by the time it gets to their birthdays in September and October I've bought way too much and so I pick out some bits and put the rest away until Xmas.. then I forget about the stuff I've put away for Xmas and buy Xmas presents.. then I remember I have a load stashed and get those out too.. then I chastise myself for buying too much and hide the stuff all over the house (and at my Mum's) and forget about it for a little longer and THEN I last minute panic buy cos I haven't bought any presents lately and it'll soon be Xmas and OMG!!! we end up with what you see here.

LOL.. yes I'm shit, I know this... but at least I do not try to hide this fact and in my defence I usually spend about the same amount every year and though it looks like theres a huge amount there, there isnt, it's just stacked to look that way..hehe i'm not fooling anyone am I?

so.. we had smiles...



we had silliness



we had Xmas dresses..


we had a Jedi death match!!!



we had a bunch of greedy little buggers all addicted to xmas pud. how rude...



We had a great time...and now we have a wendy house too... I'll bloody kill my mother for this one..



Merry Xmas. xx

Hell froze over...

Now.. if you've been paying attention you'll remember the story about my beloved buying me a slow cooker for Xmas and if you don't remember or you need refreshing, then a quick lookie here and all will be revealed...lol)

YES it's taken me 2 (yes TWO) years to use it but Hell froze over and I finally pulled it out of the cupboard this morning.

Being a 'working' Mum, actually.. is it classed as working if you don't get paid?? anyway, I'm assisting classroom-ing-ly (more commonly known as class volunteer or rather "School skivvy" if you like) 3 afternoons a week at the local school.. which is great for my C.V. but doesn't do much for my stress levels OR my bank balance.. it's BLOODY good fun though, kids are completely bonkers so as you can imagine, I fit in perfectly!!!!!! ;)

Right.. I digress, where was I? Oh yes.. slow cooker.. so even though I am now a 'working' classroom assisting/school skivvy/Mum type person I thought I should still try to keep up being the perfect domestic Goddess I have been for the last 8 years... (*le sigh* it SO hard to be me y'know..) and so out came the slow cooker and I opened the fridge door (yes Richard, I found the kitchen!!) and lo and behold!!! Vegetables!!!!!!!!!!

ok.. so..first job of the day... COFFEE. done that. NEXT!!

Bowl of soapy water... Mum always said "Wash up as you go and then you don't have a pile to do when you're finished.." SEE?!?!?! I DO listen sometimes... and yeah I know you're all fainting from shock and thats just cos my Mum knows about washing up!! I KNOW... who'd have thunked it?? Rich didn't even think she knew where the sink was nevermind what it looked like... HAHA (I'm so getting my a*se kicked for that one.. ****note to Jen's Mum* --> Mum.. don't make me tell them about the hoover.**** there, that should do it...)

ok ok people, pick yourselves up off the floor.. Jennie found the kitchen and is preparing to cook and Susie P. gave advice on doing dishes.. I know it's a lot to take in one day but stick with it... it gets even weirder.

Coffee.. check.
Bowl of soapy water.. check

Next.. peel potatoes.. I know where the peeler is AND I know how to use it... Rich gives me all the best jobs. ;)

k.. I'm ready. Let's do this.

I peel the filthy potatoes (and they were BLACK with mud.. why were they so dirty?? anyone would think they'd been in the ground or something!!!) and put them in the washing up water... and the dirty peeler and my filthy hands in the clean water that I prepared to put said spuds in when they were peeled n clean.

Bugger.

Spuds are now covered in suds.. heh and there's dirty water in my clean pan. Start again. heheh

NEXT!!!!

peeled my finger instead of the carrot and almost hacked off a thumb with a meat cleaver... I'm not sure I'm cut out for this...

Finally veggies are peeled, meat is no longer in big slab but in nice small pieces ready for stewing and I remembered to add seasoning AND water!!!

So... how do I turn it on then?? it's not working.. the light isn't on... panic.

what's that?? mmmmm..plug. wonder where that goes? Bet my Mum'll know... hahahaha..

I'll let you know how it turns out but if you don't hear from me for a few days you'll know it maybe wasn't so good!! LOL

and just for the record.. in the mean time..