4 broken baubles,
3 dodgy lightbulbs,
2 manic children,
and a load of deccies on the christmas tree!
The tree is up and so christmas time has officially arrived at our house heralding in a frenzy of excitement which will build and build over the next 9 days. I now have to watch the tree like a hawk to stop Toby from a) trying to climb it, b) chewing the non-edible decorations, and c) eating the chocolate decorations with the foil still on.
We had fun and games putting it up too. We put it in the spot it always occupies but Toby threw a wobbly as this meant moving his lego stacking table. Then we put the table back, moved one of the sofas and relocated the tree to the howls of another melt down. Still, as they say third time lucky and as it turns out we ended up wondering why we'd not thought of putting the tree in this corner in the first place!
We had a bit of good new yesterday from Mum - the halo has been taken off! Hooray!! Although she still has to wear a rigid plastic high collar for the next 3 weeks and is finding it very uncomfortable to talk and eat. But at least it's all progressing well and she'll soon be able to graduate to a soft collar for support which will really improve things for her.
