Who’s Normal Anyway?

On Sunday we went to Church in the morning for the Christingle service and then in the afternoon we went to the Gressenhall Christmas fair. I was expecting it to be very busy since it was heaving at their Apple Day, but it wasn’t bad at all. We met up with some friends there and had a play in the adventure playground. We all got a mince pie and glass of fruit punch with our entrance ticket, which helped warm us up. We walked down to the farm but there wasn’t much there except for Christmas biscuit baking in the farmhouse. In the main buildings there were some craft stalls and I tasted some strawberry wine which was very drinkable! We finished off by listening to a group of singers doing Christmas songs and poems in the chapel.

On Monday we had a day at home and made some sequined bauble Christmas decorations. They were a bit fiddly to start with, especially glueing on the ribbons, but once we got the hang of fastening on the sequins it was quite therapeutic. Even L had a go with stabbing the pins into the polystyrene balls. M sewed his latest badge onto his Cubs uniform ready for Cubs in the evening. They made Christmas cards I think, but I’m not allowed to look!

We had a fairly busy morning on Tuesday and I put a stew on in the slow cooker ready for tea time. M did some multiplication and some Christmas themed spelling words and we listened to Words Alive from BBC Schools Radio about the story of A Christmas Carol.

We had an early lunch before going out to the music class. This week the teacher brought in lots of brass instruments and a digeridoo and they talked about size changes and lower and higher notes and about sounds being due to vibrations. L fell asleep at tea time and slept for a couple of hours, then didn’t want to go to bed until 10.30. It seemed a bit mean to wake him up though - he really can’t quite make a full day awake every day yet.

We didn’t get around to reading the story of St Nicholas on Tuesday evening and when M and L came down on Wednesday morning they didn’t notice their chocolate Santas in their shoes. I think they were undisturbed til about mid morning. L seemed uninterested so we put his away. He had a bit of an upset tummy anyway with frequent sudden dark and runny poos (TMI?) so avoiding more chocolate was a good idea. We read the St Nick story in While the Bear Sleeps and did various crafts from both the St Nick site and from craft kits we got from Yellow Moon (and if you decide to buy please email me or leave a comment for the code if you’d like M’s charity of choice to benefit).

Late in the afternoon we went out to our local Christmas tree lights switch on and sang some carols and ate mince pies and drank gluwein. L fell asleep in the carrier and remained out of it even when we came home LOL.