Visit from Grandchildren

Yesterday afternoon Harry’s three grownup children and two grandchildren came round for tea. The two grandchildren helped me make the pizzas with loads of different toppings and then we all had tea round the big table in the conservatory. I lit candles which the two boys wanted to keep blowing out!
They later played on my [...]

Sam’s visit cancelled

Unfortunately Sam was unable to visit last Sunday as he was unwell but the visit will go ahead this coming Sunday. This is actually better as Sian is going to stay this weekend hopefully.

Sam to visit tomorrow

Tomorrow Sam my youngest, with his keyworker,  is going to visit me in Ipswich for  the first time tomorrow.  Due to Sam’s extra special needs, he has not lived at home since he was 12 [he is now 23]and has only visited home once in that time, when we lived in Norwich.
Sam’s keyworker phoned yesterday [...]

Saturday 27th December

Hope everyone had a good Christmas.
We got up late on Christmas Day and just had enough time to open one present and have some toast before going to see grandkids with their presents. Arrived to find a room full of wrapping paper and presents and two very excited little boys still in their Power Rangers [...]

CHRISTMAS EVE COOKING

I have been cooking this morning and here is the result.
Mr Snowman kept falling over ‘drunk’ so I had to press him down further than I really wanted to.

Now its time to clear up and continue wrapping
Happy Christmas to everyone

My Christmas decorations

A few photos of my Christmas decorations:

Eve of Christmas Eve

Or in other words 23rd December.
Has been a busy last week or so but at least there isn’t any school for another 13 days.
On Saturday we went to visit Sam at his residential placement in Norfolk. He looked happy to see us but in his usual vein equally glad hen we left. Its all part [...]

Nov and Dec swaps

I’ve been very amiss and haven’t posted pics of my last few swaps from others on the Shabbychic forum
This is some of what I received from Annie_c. Unfortunately the photo of the address book didn’t come out and I’ve eaten the sweeties! It was all wrapped in lovely dark purple paper and gold ribbon. How [...]

Sunday 14th December

Have had a lovely day. First we went to Craft Central to get some fimo for Emma’s [son's partner] Christmas present . Unfortunately they didn’t have a wide range but I got her one of each colour they had.
Then we drove to Snape Maltings:

Where we watched Old Glory Molly dancers:

Old Glory was formed in 1994 [...]

Saturday 6th December

Today I received in the post a photocopy of some instructions to make a Father Christmas cake that Sal of Sals Snippets sent me….thanks so much Sal. I intend making the cake for my 2 grandsons. However it made me remember a snowman cake I made many many years ago, when my kids were young. [...]