Back to try again..

It really is great news. They are back, such a relief. He will be in ICU for a while until he can be transferred to the rehab center.

Went to the second showing of DD's nativity this morning, she was a king and did a great job. Went into work after and got back just in time to pick her from school, then straight onto a party, thankfully the last one of the year. She bought home another invite for January yesterday though. Got back at 6.15 and was meant to go straight out again to pick my sister and her friends up to drop them to their Christmas party, but DH said he would do that, so saved me another trip out.

Got to go visit my nephew tomorrow to give him his birthday present, but hoping to have a quiet day as Sunday will be busy and DD still has another week at school. DS breaks up Wednesday, so not as bad.

Thanks Jwil, hope you had a nice weekend too.

I feel so so tired today, was a busy weekend. Saturday went to see my nephew for his birthday, popped into work as forgot my jumper the other day and my boss gave me a bag of gifts for the DC and a Christmas card with a note thanking me for my hard work and £100 I have been eyeing up a coat that is £40 so think I may treat myself. After we came home we ended up having quite a few visitors thoughout the day, my niece came in the evening with birthday gift for DD, so was a later than hoped bedtime for her. She had booked tickets for the DC to go ice skating this weekend as their Christmas treat, so I booked myself a ticket too, looking forward to going again.

Yesterday we went to watch Elf the musical. Really good fun, the DC loved it. Specially DS who is a big fan of musicals anyway. I am so grateful we got to go, as we were given the tickets. We used our pizza vouchers, so had a lovely lunch. Even if we had the money I don't think I would ever pay £60 for 4 pizzas and a drink each though! But it cost us £15 so was happy with that. DD took he pyjamas with her and we changed her before the drive home so carried her in asleep and straight into bed.

DS had his meeting this morning, dropped him back at school and quickly tidied the house and put dinner in slow cooker. My plan for the rest of the day is doing nothing, just feel so wiped out today. But DD has got her Christmas party at athletics this evening, so will be off to that.

A busy few days with work and going to help my brother, who put a plea out for help when some of his temp staff didn't bother showing up. So spent the evenings there helping out, it was so busy. Plus, woke up this morning to a text to say the inspector had finally shown up, of course! Spent the morning doubting myself, wondering what I had missed or hadn't done right but we got exemplary on every part :j got back just in time to go to the church to watch DD's carol concert, which was absolutely beautiful.

Finally sat down and ordered our Christmas food shop, with £30 vouchers added on it came to £80 so only £5 over our normal budget. But did get some nice treats and have £15 voucher left over and I didn't need to go to the shops, there have been queues for the car parks, no thankyou. Need to wrap the DCs presents tonight, have never left it so late and would have liked to have got it done while DD was still at school but just never found the time.

Booked train tickets for tomorrow to go ice skating. Meeting my niece there but have booked tickets for my sister and her partner too, but will get the money back. Will probably have some lunch too. Have eaten out quite a bit this month but I did think we would be and had budgeted for it at the beginning of the month and we haven't gone over it yet, thankfully.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend.