Merry Christmas my gorgeous friends!!!

I hope the day has been wonderful for you all

Arte that is great he can ride it all by himself. I bet the look on your DH's face was priceless when he saw it.

Cass and MD, I'd love to see a pic of the handy work you've done

As for me - massive few days. Mum had to have one of her big toes amputated on Thursday (gangrene) so my brother is staying with me. We went and saw her yesterday and she's going well. We did her Christmas shopping for her and I got presents for the kids for her and a new phone for my brother that he wanted but thought he wouldn't get because Mum was in hospital. I think he thought he wouldn't get anything for Christmas kwim? But I told him to go and browse his fave music shop instead of hanging out with me and I got his phone for him from Mum and we got him some new clothes. So he was very happy and surprised this morning when he realised he had presents too. Poor kid, he's been through a lot this year. The kids had an early start - Alister was up at 5.30!!!!! I took him to the loo and told him to go back to bed, but I don't know if he went back to sleep or not. They were all up at 6.30 as usual though but we didn't open presents till 7 when my brother was awake. So Alister sat in front of the tree busting his bum to open his presents. I'm so glad we did what we planned and just had the santa sacks - my other brother got them a present each as well as the one from Mum, so they still had plenty of stuff and were just as excited as they would have been if there was a stack of presents kwim? My brother gets the prize for best present though - he gave Alister a hotwheels colour changer car thing that came with a water spray bottle to spray the cars and change their colours and he thinks it is awesome LOL. He has a huge fascination for spray bottles atm and is always pinching mine.

We're off to the IL's soon for lunch (prawn ****tail starters, and roast pork and chicken for main - YUM!) and then just back here for a lazy afternoon. We will go and visit Mum in hospital tomorrow. She will be in there till Wednesday at least.

So I hope you all have a wonderful day and enjoy the laughter, smiles and noise!