Winter at the seaside pictures

Christmas spirit

This year Jamie got me some lovely bits and bobs for Christmas which i really liked (in large part due to the fact that I gave him a list of things I wanted, compete with links to all the products so it was pretty hard for him to go wrong)

So on christmas eve I opened all my presents (we open Christmas presents on christmas eve in our family, so do the royal family, yet another thing we have in common) Anyway he said to me you have one more gift but it hasn't arrived yet. So I thought there had been a delivery error,  awesome a second Christmas! and then I said to him on Christmas morning 'what's my other gift?' and he said '£30 pounds of amazon gift vouchers' and I thought how nice, vouchers for my kindle what a great idea that wasn't on the list. What a thoughtful husband I have. Ha!

When the vouchers arrived via email they were in two lots, one £10 and one of £20, very suspicious and when I looked closer I noticed that he had got them as a loyalty deal for using sainsburys to do his shopping. A total re-gfit, for Christmas, for his wife! The cheek.

Then when I pointed out he was being a shameless re-gifter he threatened to take them back. Never mind that they had been collected doing the family shopping online, which I do every week. So really they were half mine to begin with.

I said to him it's not the gift I have the issue with, it's the deceit, imagine getting free vouchers and trying to pass them of as a Christmas gift to your wife! who you have been with for 15 years! who almost died giving birth to your child! (slight exaggeration) cheapskate.

And I bought him and awesome coffee machine for Chrsitmas. He hasn't heard the last of this, not by a long shot.

By the way this one bad gift totally negated the years and years of awesome presents he has given me. Wipes them out in one clean swoop.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Shoes

The other day I was lying on my couch and I heard  a shuffle, shuffle, stomp, stomp looked up and there was Mackay. In my shoes quite proud of himself so i made him walk towards me and viola! classic childhood moment captured on camera.

Also Mackay's first girlfriend natalie is moving back to the US to here they are at her going away party. Plus it's a nice picture of me and you don't get those very often. So here it is.

Also sometimes you just know bedtime is going to be a struggle, today is one of those days i have a very hyper child running up and down the hall being a dinosaur, well I think it's a dinosaur it could be a lion or a crocodile or a cat. Either way I sense I may be standing outside his door for a while tonight.

Mackay's adventures at playgroup

Above is Mackay playing around with his best mate Jamie at playgroup. 

Also when i played it back to Mackay on our camera he laughed like a loon, thought it was the funniest thing he ever saw, ever.

Mackay has a best friend called Jamie and from the moment they met 6 months ago they have loved each other. Here they are side by side.

Also they look a bit a like and some people think their twins, but there not, not unless there was some massive hospital mix-up conspiracy. Unlikely but not impossible.

Sick again

Before you have kids everyone tells you how they get sick so often but you don't realise how much they get sick until you have kids and no joke they are sick every other week. Mackay's latest thing is hand and foot virus (not foot and mouth cow type, it's a whole other virus)

Anyway he has it compete with blisters all over his body and I think Jamie and I have it too minus the blisters. Which explains why I have been feeling so crap all week. I have a real inner battle when I get sick, I lurch between thinking I making it all up and then thinking that this is totally not normal way to feel and i must google all my symptoms straight away to make sure I am not dying.

This comes from my parents who had completely opposite reactions to me being sick. My dad is totally ambivalent to sickness, Example: when I had chicken pox and a massive fever I said to him 'Dad I feel a bit hot' He said 'Don't lie in the sun then.'
And my mum is always overreacting and thinks I am dying when I get sick Example: once I had a massive hangover and she wanted to take me to the A&E, no joke.

So as soon as I get sick i constantly question whether i am sick and whether I am so sick that i should go to the doctor or just straight to the hospital.  Inevitably by the time I have almost reached a decision I am feeing better and forget how i was feeling anyway.

But as an interesting aside did you know that one symptom of hand and mouth virus is sore ears. I have never had sore ears in my life. Another symptom is loss of appetite, if only I was that lucky, my appetite has increased. i can not stop eating. It's a mega eating virus. That is definitely worth seeing the doctor about.

Mackay's new thing

Mackay likes to kiss goodbye when we leaves somewhere, he started off kissing people he knew, then strangers and now it's his favourite things in the room. When we left the house the other day he kissed his playhouse, his bumble bee toy, his cot and his nappy bin. You know just things he will miss when he is not in the room anymore.

Any my idea for poo shocker! has gained more momentum as we were waking down the road the other day Mackay picked up a dog poo, in his hand! and touched it! with his fingers! I gave them a good wipe afterwards and used a litre of hand sanitiser but still gross. Dog poo on my babies hands. Mega gross.