Colouring Books

13 December 2015

I went and finished the Christmas shopping yesterday, well when I say I did it was a family effort and well I am putting it out there,,, next year I am doing it all on line so that I don't have to deal with the hoards of people which I have narrowed down to the following three categories A: The exasperated parent - we are trying to find that perfect present because if we don't there will be hell to pay.  B: Kids - they have been dragged from store to store they are tired,hungry,bored,my feet hurt, when can we go home and on the verge of tears. C:  I have left the shopping to the last minute and I am trying to get through the whole two families without slapping somebody in the shops because I am sooo stressed and if you get in my way I will mow you down with my shopping cart.
Now in yesterday's case I was two of these and so I bought myself two colouring books, now my kids have great amusement in the fact that I sat and coloured yesterday afternoon after I had been to the shops again to carry out C, because the presents I had bought were not age appropriate, the silver lining to that is they are going to get donated to charity so that some children are going to have presents to open on Christmas Day.

So last night while watch TV I was knitting and colouring and came to the realisation that we are now no longer in ratings season so the people that control what program goes on TV can put any rubbish on and get away with it.  I know it is Christmas time and we need to have some christmas movies ( my personal favs are White Christmas and Miracle on 34 Street the remake though I hear the black and white version is pretty good, and there has to be others but I just can't think of them at the minute) but really the ones we have had of late are really bad.

Ok so that is my Christmas whinge over and done with and it feels good to get it off my chest, now if I only had milk I could make myself a cup of coffee.

One visitor gone and the other one is descending tonight, which is really inconvenient considering I still have to go to work tomorrow and the kids are going to school.  I did consider saying that we are not going to be home , but I need a decent why we are not going to be home and well I wasn't quick enough to come up with one.  Which means I will be back at the shops to buy in extra food and will once again come face to face with the hoard of people, is it rude to serve cereal up for dinner?