Tuesday Randoms - Christmas meh, Planning meh, Photo successes

OMG it's December.

I told Andy yesterday that I just need a half day to catch up on life admin, like photo Albums (still undone from December) and budget and house stuff and all the stuff which I need to do on a monthly basis (or ideally more, our house is kind of a mess)

Then decided that instead I could just not catch up on anything and wait like 9 more months and take a week off to catch up instead.  

My planning is not great at the moment.  Check out this weekly plan!

Oops.

On the plus side, I was very excited to get a family Advent calendar this year.  It's a Jam advent calendar from Bonne Maman.  The kids are delighted.  Many conversations were had about who opens doors and in what order.  Clara got to open first and Lily helped, because we are (apparently) going smallest to biggest in size.

We had honey apricot jam this morning on toast.  It was delicious. 

I have lots of fun stuff planned in December and I am kind of dreading a lot of it.  We went to our local village Christmas fayre on Saturday and I had thoughtfully bought the kids some light up wands because every year there is a light up wand seller who sells extortionately priced wands and I found discount wands at the local pound store.  The kids immediately said they didn't like my poundland wands and wanted other wands, or balloons, or food, or cake... basically they wanted STUFF!  and not the stuff I had.  OTHER STUFF.  It was very stressful and we went home.

Is Christmas just a pile of things and events that should be nice but are actually made kind of awful by the Christmas buildup?  Inquiring minds do not want to know.

This evening we ordered our Christmas cards! It might be world record early for us, and also they are New Years cards because I don't trust myself to actually post on time.  We have a spreadsheet of year on year Christmas cards and addresses and this year we had 24 for the UK and 19 for the USA.  Cards come in sets of 20.  So we ordered 60.  I might be reaching out for more addresses from my blog-o-friends.

Not our Christmas Card photo.  However... it is very hard to get 4 kids to look at a tripod camera.  We may end up paying a photo person next year.  I never regret having nice family photos.

Thing I am excited about this week:

• Going to the office on Wednesday
• Doing more stretching and mobility on Peloton
• Gym with my gym buddy on Thursday
• Omelettes with Jalapenos and Mozzarella cheese (new 10am second breakfast fav)
• Maybe getting some photo albums updated?
• Sleep
• Kids school Christmas Disco on Friday

What are you excited about this week? Are you a Christmas lover, a Christmas buildup lover, or a total Grinch?