Saturday 22 December 2018

Photo diary: week 51, project 365

Holy moly guacamole, three days and counting... I keep telling myself No need to panic, no need to panic, but I still haven't sorted out all presents.

This Christmas tree bauble is a blast from the past. My Mum bought it when I was a baby, so it's about half a century old. It survived several moves, including a journey from Russia. Mum brought me a few old ornaments a few years ago. It might not be the most beautiful in my collection, but I love it, as it brings back so many lovely memories of decorating the tree with my Mum.
We always had a real tree then. These days our tree is an artificial one.

vintage glass baubles

In the last few weeks Mondays are days when I watch the next episode of Outlander. I take Eddie to school, then get back home to a nice cup of coffee, maybe some chocolates, and a verra handsome Jamie. I was a bit disappointed with the last episode, as Jamie didn't make an appearance at all. Tut tut.


Eddie is the clown of the family, forever trying to make me laugh. He thought that wearing my hat was hilarious. Well, it did make me smile.


On Wednesday Sash went on his respite overnight stay, the last of the year. Eddie and I arranged to meet with a friend in Oxford. While we were waiting outside John Lewis for our friend, Eddie reclined in the lounge space.


I still haven't put the lights on our Christmas tree. I could only find a garland of green lights, but the lovely twinkling lights have disappeared, and are not where I thought they were supposed to be. Looks like gremlins have hidden them.


Last day of school: Eddie's school had a carol service at St Mary's. It was a dark-ish morning, you wouldn't believe it was 11am, looking at that photo.


Today was a bit of a crazy day: I made pancakes for breakfast. We went in town: library, Costa, charity shop (with a couple of bags of clothes and puzzles I prepared), Waitrose.
In the evening all four of us went to the carol service at our local church. Sasha's been showing me the symbol of the church for the last couple of weeks, for some reason he really wanted to go. We agreed that if he gets anxious, my husband would take him home. But he sat through most of the service, which in itself is a miracle.
Eddie and I enjoyed the singing and actually sang our hearts out.


12 comments:

  1. How lovely that Sasha managed to sit through the carol service. It's amazing that you've had your tree decoration for so long. I still remember the ones we had on the tree when I was little, and I always like to buy ones that look similar (then my daughter hides them because she doesn't like them!). I hope you manage to find your tree lights! Merry Christmas to you all.

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    1. Thank you, Sarah! Merry Christmas to you too! I was very touched that Sasha wanted to go to the church.

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  2. how lovely that you all got to enjoy the church service. I love your Russian bauble, I have no idea if Mum still has all the ones from our childhood still. I hope you have a lovely Christmas #365

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    1. Thank you, Mary! We had a lovely Christmas, with friends coming over for drinks and desserts in the evening.

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  3. That's so nice Sasha wanted to go to church and stayed throughout the service for you al to enjoy yourselves. love you've kept the decoration all these years and still hang it on the tree. hope you all had a very merry christmas

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    1. Thank you, Suzanne! I've got three of the old decorations from my childhood, so glad they survived all these years.

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  4. That's great that Sasha did so well with the church service. I do miss church at this time of year. Our local church carol concert we couldn't make, and midnight mass and other services rotate around various churces so it's hard to work out which service is on where. Eddie looks so like you in your hat! Hope you had a lovely Christmas

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    1. Thank you, Emma! I was amazed at Sasha's wish to go to the church, but he clearly enjoyed it. It could be a one-off, but I'll take that.

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  5. Glad Sasha enjoyed the church service.
    Eddie really looks like you in the hat picture.
    Ypu could take that church picture to be about sunset

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    1. Thank you, Elaine! Eddie does look a little bit like me.

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  6. Loving all the Lego in front of the telly! How special that bauble must be to you and your family #project365

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    1. Thank you, Laura, I'm afraid Lego takes over all available spaces in this house. :)

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