Happy New Year

01/01/2010

Happy New Year everyone!

This is the first chance I have had to update my blog since the start of December as it is such a busy month for me so here goes.

Charlotte had been taking Piano lessons since summer and had to take part in a concert at the end of November. Although she was very nervous she managed to play both her tunes perfectly. She has now decided that she doesn’t want to contunue with the lessons though and I am not going to force her as she can always start again at a later date.

Lewis and Charlotte were very busy at school in December and along with their usual school work had parties, a panto and a school Christmas fayre. Charlotte was an angel in her P3 Christmas performance and Lewis’s class organised a Quiz night to raise money to help build a school in the rainforest and the P4-7′s also did a performance one morning. I felt like I was never away from the school in December as I had to go along and see everything (how mums that work manage I just don’t know)!

The building work finally finished on the house the week before Christmas so I then had to get all the hutches back in and set up for the Xmas boarders. That was some job as well as the hutches were all mouldy from being outside in the wet even though they were covered with a tarpauline. It took nearly a week for them to dry out then I had to clean them all inside and out. We then had to sand all the hutch doors down as they had all expanded in the wet Thankfully I got them all sorted before the first ‘guests’ arrived.

The snow has been really bad here and our road has still not yet seen a gritter. A lot of the roads and pavements in Aberdeen haven’t been gritted and the local papers are full of stories of people breaking bones falling because they are so icy now. Also my car hadn’t been starting so I had to get a new battery a couple of days ago.

Apart from all that we had a really great Christmas and New Year with the Ord’s who managed to make it up from London and Livingston despite the weather. Looking forward to a more relaxed January – oops forgot I have a lot of painting to do