Family Affairs and other matters

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS BEGIN

Two out of my three children are breaking up today for the Christmas holidays. My oldest child had to go to school for an hour and a half - what on earth is the point of that? 10.30am this morning they broke up. How ridiculous. My daughter has a full day and my youngest child breaks up tomorrow. I should have thought this through - three huge children getting in the way. I am now going to be in disorganised mode right up until Christmas. I haven't brought their presents. How am I going to do that with them all off school. Oh well. Same old same old. This morning my youngest child had an advent calender drama.....he watched my oldest child eat his chocolate from number 17. "You've eaten the wrong one, it's the 18th today" he said. "No it's not". "Yes, it is, mum told me when I asked her this morning". "NO IT'S NOT", "YES IT IS" went on for a while before I said "Sorry, my mistake, I've given you the wrong information, it is in fact the 17th"...."OMG!!!" he said "BUT NOW I'VE EATEN THE WRONG CHOCOLATE!! HOW COULD YOU DO THAT??" Good grief. It took a while to persuade him that eating No.17 tomorrow would be acceptable. I've had two Christmas Carol services this week. Just lovely. Nothing better than listening to children sing their little hearts out. I watched one teeny boy go puce and try really really hard not to cry when he came in with the song at the wrong moment and all his friends laughed - I remember doing that as a child, just seems SO enormous a problem when you're that age.... Weirdly, both vicars at the different churches gave the same sermon - all about how Christmas decorations in our area are deemed to be in very good taste and that the problem with being obsessed with good taste means that we can lose the joy of Christmas. I thought it was a strange concept anyway, let alone having to hear it twice - do you think vicars have planning meetings pre Christmas about what to discuss?

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