The boy ....

Needs a bobble hat for winter. As, apparently, does every instrument that could possibly wear a knitted tiny bobble hat!

Today they had to take “my life in a box” projects that we’d been working on. It was definitely a “we” project- verging more on a “me” project. She contributed ideas and concepts. She ran out of time to make it a reality....

She’s enjoying her Harry Potter lego calendar.... today we were squabbling over how to construct the tiny toy Hogwarts express! (I was right, she was wrong!), danced a Christmas dance as directed by her Cadbury calendar and dropped her Brussel sprout chocolate in the calendar game! These are the things that make her very happy during advent. We are getting antsy to have our tree in the lounge up properly but I need a new stand first. For now it’s just lent against the lounge wall in a bucket!

She was very entertained to come home from dancing and tell me that she was wearing the same Christmas ballet skirt are her teacher tonight.... the Christmas pretties are now accepted in place of uniform, it seems. She was less impressed that because she’d had to dance barefoot on account of leaving her shoes at home, she caught her toenail and made it bleed!

I told her she needed to miss contemporary tonight, to try catch up a bit on sleep. For the first time in quite a while we snuggled with a picture book and enjoyed a favourite festive story.