onsdag, december 30, 2009

To all my friends and family...


May the dawning of this New Year, fill your heart with new hopes, open up new horizons and bring for you promises of brighter tomorrows. May you have a great New Year!
E.

fredag, december 25, 2009

God Jul!

So...Christmas is over for this year. :) We were all very good and got lots of gifts. I got a lovely and warm retro-style (i.e. large "shawl" collar and big buttons) coat, bedding, a beautiful book of family photos, a gorgeous XXL fairy (have to try and and find a picture of it!)...was there anything else...? :/ Got money too, to buy the "right" thing, from dad. :) Kiddies got clothes and toys (jigzaw puzzles, remote control car) book, money... :) Plenty! :) Every year I think half would be enough... :) Oh! Anton and Erin are getting fish (in aquarium of course!) from me and Stephen too...! *lol* Stephen got a punching bag and gloves. :)

Dad was Santa as usual and I think next year we'll have to change Santa 'cause the kids suspected that Santa wasn't actually Santa but Vaari, dressed up as Santa...!?! Even Erin told me this morning that it was Vaari who was Santa... :/ ;) I mean, yeah...Julia might be big enough to start figuring things out but Erin's not even 3... It'd be nice if they believed in Santa for another little while. ;)

As always we had lots of lovely food, great company and a really good time! :)

I'm back to work at 7.15 tomorrow morning, getting ready for start of the sale...! :O Not stressing about that yet though... ;) Now I'm going to get myself some breakfast and see what the day will bring. :)

E.

edited to add:
I completely forgot to mention that my dear friend over in Scotland, Nyki, had her baby on Christmas Eve! "McBaby" was a little Fraser! :D ...and I was certain it'd be a girl! ;) Congratulations and well done Nyki! xxx

torsdag, december 17, 2009

Happy Holidays!

Once again life rushes past and I'm doing my best to keep up! School term is finally over and I've been working as well as studying the last two weeks. It's been surprisingly good to be back to work, didn't think I would enjoy it as much as I do. :)

Grades of the autumn term were surprisingly good too! :D MVG (passed with special distinction) on all but one of my courses. :D That one I wasn't sure I'd pass at all and I got a VG (passed with distinction) on it!? :D Super pleased with myself. :)

Christmas is just around the corner and I am as usual perplexed over the fact that it's less than a week away and I haven't got any Christmas:y things done this year either... :/ I take comfort in the fact that it'll be over before I know it and I'll stand here in April wondering what happened to the month of December! ;)

We're going to be staying with my mum and big sis over the next few weeks, it'll make my commute to work about a 3rd shorter, so when I'm not busy working I'll be busy being sociable with my family. :) Perhaps somthing to try to do more in the New Year...? ;) (I'm in the kitchen and S is in front of the TV!) *lol*

I'll try and pop in and let you know if Santa thought I'd been good this year... :) 'til then...


lördag, december 05, 2009

December!?

Oh my goodness! Time flies and I haven't blogged in ages...

Anton had his check up at the nurse on Monday and got his eyes checked too. Got an all clear. :D There were other little things that he had to do too, draw, put peals in a string and tell the nurse what the boy in the book was doing. He, like Erin, speaks very well for his age and she had nothing to comment on at all. Mister Man's measurements at 4 years (+ a little bit) were 107 cm (3'1") and 19,1 kg (42 lb). Next check is at 5 years old, and then he'll get a jab too... :/ I can't remember what though...tetanus boost perhaps?

As far as the A(H1N1) jab...it seems like Anton and Erin are the only kids on their nursery group who haven't gotten it. Which is fine by me since they'll not get it from their little friends and no one should get it from our little ones... :)

I've also had a visit to my work, were I'll be working over x-mas...was a bit nervous but it very quickly felt like I'd not been away for that long (+4 years!). Even work"mates" that I barely remembered the names of knew/remembered me and gave me big hugs and a warm welcome. :) First proper day back to work is on Tuesday next week.

Otherwise...? Last weeks of school are just as boring and as stressful as usual and the fact that I'll be working half of the days I've got left in school this term is not stressing me any less.... ;) Oh well...! I've also gotten the acceptance letter for all the courses that I applied for for the spring term so now I have to decide which ones I'll not do... :( They all are SO interesting! Except the 2 that I'd rather not do but are "good" for me... ;) I might just do the math and skip the natural science but then again...both are good to have...

Today we're going to my "uncles" 50th birthday bash and we'll hopefully have and awesome time!
Time to get ready!
E.