Poorly Peeps......again!

All three of my girls are off school today. Two have jippy tummies and the other had no sleep at all last night so I didn't think it was fair to send her. Rebekah has a GCSE tomorrow so that is compounding things.

The next page of my journal shows a lovely card sent to me by my UKS team leader, Julie. It was totally unexpected and so doubly appreciated. Putting it in my journal means I can keep it forever too. Thanks Julie!

Rain, rain go away..........

What a soggy day! The rain has been incessant the whole day. I find it very depressing. Was going to do some scrapping tonight to cheer myself up but my hubby is sorting out in the room I use so there's no space! Thought I'd blog instead.

The next page from my journal may upset some but it is my honest feelings and my journal was made for me so here goes!



I used one of our Christmas cards for the motif, so I recycled too!

Poorly Peeps

My Hubby and middle daughter are both at home today with tummy ache. It doesn't seem to be this terrible bug that has laid so many people low - at least I hope not!

I've been incredibly tired this week. I think it's re-adjusting to the early mornings because of school. It took me two hours just to open my eyes this morning! Consequently, I've not done any scrapping at all since last Saturday. I want to get my Christmas Journal finished so my head is clear to tackle other things.

I also discovered I'd read the CJ thread wrong and the first posting date is not til the 11th February - PHEW!!

Here's the next instalment of my journal: Christmas Dinner it's quite a simple page just documenting in words rather than pictures what we planned to eat on the Big Day.

Two more!

Two more pages from my Christmas Journal. Grateful is about things I am grateful for during the Christmas season.



Perfect Present? has a photo of a 'meat sucks' t-shirt which we bought for Rebekah. She has been a vegetarian for 15 months and has wanted this t-shirt for absolutely ages; there's no accounting for taste! I've never been that keen on it but decided to buy it for her for Christmas. I even had to go on the Drop Dead website complete with VERY heavy rock music to get it! Needless to say, she was delighted with it on Christmas Day.

Ouch!

I've been suffering with a very painful shoulder for a few months and finally went to the doctor today (after much pressure from family and friends!). It turns out I have a damaged tendon which is inflamed and restricting movement so I have to have a steroid injection in it next Thursday. The Doctor warned me that the injection is rather painful so I'm not really looking forward to it!

Anyway, here are another two pages from my Christmas Journal.

Carols tells of my love of Christmas Carols and my abhorrance of the ususal ditties that invade my ears in every shop I go into for weeks before Christmas. The journalling is under the music flap and is quite personal so I'm not going to share it here.



Visitors is about our usual Christmas visitors being one short this year as my younger brother couldn't get over to us. I missed him loads.

Two days in a row!

Can't believe I've managed to blog two days in a row, wonder how long it will last!

Here's a couple more pages from my Christmas Journal. Then and Now shows how I think the Christmas celebration has changed in this country over the last 20 years or so.



Present delivery documents our remarkably civilised method of opening our presents. Considering how the children normally behave, it really is quite amazing!



I found out today that the newbie CJ I have signed up for is now full and the first posting date is next Monday - HELP!!!

Getting up to date

I'm an inconsistent blogger too evidently!

I'm still working on my Christmas Journal and am now up to day 22 so will eventually get there! I've been scanning, re-sizing and uploading a few of my pages this afternoon; I really shouldn't leave it so long as it takes ages when I have a pile to do! I'm only going to show a couple at a time as it's too much for a reader to plough through otherwise!

The first (day 8) is one that was waiting for pictures to be printed. It shows the lights in Birmingham City Centre where Adam works. It's nice to see they gave up on the 'Winterval' idea!



The second (day 11) shows some of our decorations. The children always end up hanging baubles in strange places as we don't have a tree. Here they are hung from the shelves of our bookcases, it looks pretty but a pain when you want a book!