Excited children on Christmas eve

Well it's Christmas eve and today we have done a quick shop for cat litter. The shops were very busy so very busy. I don't know why as the shops are only closed one day, two if the shop staff are lucky.

Then some christmas film watching, home alone 2, and my children have been bouncing of the walls most of the day saying 'we're so excited'. This evening we went to the crib service at our church, my daughter was dressed as an angel with a tinsel halo and my son was a shepherd.

We walked to church and the service was lovely my daughter was a big part of the service but my son on the other hand only wanted to stay with me. After the service we walked home looking at all the houses that had christmas lights on them.

When we got back we had dinner and then settled down to watch The Snowman and The Snowdog. I loved it just as much as the children did and even had tears running down my face at points. It was a stunning short film a must get when it comes out on blu ray.

Then we got out the children's santa sacks for their pressies from father christmas to be put in. Then we got out the mince pie, sherry and the carrot for the raindeer. All put on a plate with some raindeer food that my daughter was given from her school.

So as I write this my husband is upstairs reading them bedtime stories which he has been doing for over an hour now!

Cats

We have two cats one called Jezebell, is White and Black, who is about 16 we have to guess as she is a rescue cat who we got in 2006. She has made such a diffrence to our lives. We were both working at the time that we got her and she would be a happy face there to great us when we got in. But I think it was more a case of 'aww your home now feed me'!

She has also been a good indicator to me collapsing or having a migraine. She would sit on me or next to me and would not leave me alone for about six hours or so before I would have a migraine or collapse. She has since stopped doing this once my pacemaker was implanted and I only get migraines once in a blue moon now. But she was never my cat, she was always my husbands cat. She likes him more than anyone else.

Our new addition is a little kitten called Baskerville, is Black but in sun light you can see spots and stripes, we do know how old he is as he was born at the rescue center that we got him from.

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He was born on the 22nd May 2012 so he is now almost 7 months old. I think he likes me the most as he is always sitting on me and trying to lick me and I can do almost anything to him. We got him the month before I went in for my pacemaker operation.

I think he would prefer to be an indoor cat as the outside world is very scarry in his eyes. He does this very funny backwards walk when the wind blows. But I do make him go out every day as long as it is not raining.

He acts like a baby, I can cradle him in my arms all the while he is purring his head off. My husband calls him my baby replacement! I think he could be right there! But he did name him, he was called Tumbles when we first had him.
My husband said that was an ok name for a kitten but not for a cat.
Baskerville was the name and on his collar he has a bone shaped name tag. We thought that was quite appt as he is named after 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' and we also live at number 221 so very Sherlock Holmes. My husband names the cats as he says to me 'you got to name the children so I get to name the cats'

Not sure what will happen next but there will always be a home for a rescue cat or kitten here.

Photo memory

My son at 4 days old. What a lovely memory.

Christmas play

On Tuesday we went to our daughter's first Christmas play. She was a snowflake.

It was a show of about 45mins and she sang all the songs and did all the actions. Now I think she has the performing bug, she has now turned our fireplace into her stage.
She had been recreating her play for us over and over since.

It was such a proud moment that there was a tear in my eye and my husband, the soppy thing, had tears running down his checks.

After the performance she went back to her class and we went to the local garden center and while walking around my husband said we should get her a little something for doing so well. In the end after much serching we went for a large snowflake christmas tree decoration and a small chocolate bear.

When we picked her up from school she got given her little present and the snowflake now has pride of place on our christmas tree. The chocolate bear lasted about 2 minutes.