Catholic and Loving it!

My biggest regret this Christmas is that it snowed and we never built a snowman - there was a rather tragic afternoon when I took Leona to the shops to buy a sledge and they had all sold out. I am resolved. The next time I see a decent sledge in a shop I will buy three - even if it is June.

If that's the worst I can think of then you know we had a good Christmas and I hope you all did to.

It was very hard to buy Satsumas in the shops this year so when Ella put Satsumas on the shopping list I bought Clementines instead - lot's of Clementines. They were buy one get one free so I bought six bags. That's 30 or so tasty oranges.

When I got home it turned out Ella doesn't like Clementines and I have ruined her Christmas. Personally I think Clementines are far superior to Satsumas but Ella thinks they are disgusting. Eventually I went back to the shops and found some Satumas. These are kept in a seperate bag in the fruit bowl and are for Ella only while me and the girls attempt to eat loads of Clementines before they go off (fortunately, they have lasted quite well).

The important thing is that the girls found a small orange in their stocking. This is an essential part of Christmas - is this the case in other people's families or just ours?

Speaking of the girls, they are now enormous. Baby Joanne is now crawling all over the place and getting in to everything - her favourite toys are electrical outlets, plastic bags and probably barbed wire if she could get hold of it, that girl likes danger. Leona meanwhile is a little person and is definitely not a Baby (she told me), you can hold basic conversations with her and tell her off for not saying please and thank you.

Hope you had a great Christmas, I would tell you about my New Year resolutions but there are too many and I have broken several of them already.

There are loads more Christmassy pictures to be seen here.