Christmas comes but once a year….
and it takes me months to re-discover the floor afterwards 
She has had another very lovely haul this year, "Jessie" bought her the latest Fairy book (Paige the Pantomime fairy…. very sparkly and festive) Santa brought pink satin ballet slippers which she has been hankering after for months (and he told me where to get more from when tehy get too small 
) We got her various bits - Tumble Tots DVD, Bill Oddie wildlife DVD, hama beads and her main pressie was a CD/MP3 portable stereo in sparkly red (God Bless Asda!) the neighbours bought her the most wonderful dressing up gown (Pirates of teh Carabean) which she wore all day. Harley and Lola, as usual, "spoilt" her with loads of Princess stuff and a care bear jigsaw half of which she is leaving there to play with when Lola looks after her, the rest are in teh melee that I laughingly call a living room here! Other fab stuff she got from family included a pink chair from granny and grandpa, Mucky Hands indoor garden set from one of the "in law" side of the family (but I’ve no idea who cos she got swamped with stuff teh minute we got to Grandma’s and most didn’t have labels!) and various baking bits and a baking book from Grandma. So once more she’s a lucky little girl! She also got 14 free posters and a fistful of free DVDs/CD-ROMs as her gift from Duke’s bro which she likes but I sort of feel is a bit cheapskate for someone with a £25k mortgage, a £30k wage and no responsibilities but then he’s just generally odd (in a nice sort of way) and it beats the plastic crap he got last year that broke in seconds!
Probably the best moment though was when said Duke’s bro gave a gift to our smallest niece who has severe disabilities. He gave her a jingle bell stick and half an hour later she was still shrieking with delight waving it about and stomping her feet. I have never seen her interest held by anything other than chocolate for more than a minute so it really was a wonderful sight and probably the moment I’ll remember.
well, i think for the jingle belll stick he is probably forgiven all other present crappiness! cos that must hve taken real thought
Comment by HelenHaricot — December 30, 2006 @ 7:31 pm
agreed! it was pure inspiration on his part and, as I say, he’s “odd” so I tend to forgive him most things….
Comment by Administrator — December 30, 2006 @ 8:08 pm
Clicked through on your name from your post on my blog to find your blog and was reading through when found this post. The jingle bell stick story is lovely and that’s exactly the sort of memory I worry about forgetting. I’m hoping the blog will help me in the future to re-read and bring back memories. We’re at Melrose too so I’m looking forward to meeting you. TTFN. Michelle.
Comment by Michelle — January 15, 2007 @ 9:20 pm
Hi Michelle, welcome to my slightly surreal corner of the Web! Thanks for the comment, looking forward to Melrose!
Comment by Administrator — January 15, 2007 @ 9:28 pm