My Mosaic

Oh dear @Bow Thats not good about the inspection. They can't really do it if you are not there.

Good to hear you got to the shops early and got out.

We ended up going car shopping and brought a car!

Just made my chocolate ripple cake for tomorrow

How has the rest of your day been?

Does D go to sleep easily tonight or stays up because she is excited?

Unfortunately they will do it even if we aren’t there @Snowie they just use their key that they have. Hopefully they will reschedule it.

Wow! was buying a car a planned thing?

a chocolate ripple cake sounds nice. We did our ham today. Can’t remember if I said but while I was at the shops mum called saying she can’t find the ham bag. I searched 5 shops and couldn’t find one so had to go to spotlight and by some calico to make one.

D and I painted wooden nutcrackers. My CM came for a home visit. We watched a movie, went to a church service with our neighbors and now just on the couch.

D is wanting to go to bed. She’s tired. But she also doesn’t sleep well on nights like tonight. Too excited. So will see what happens.

im tired! I could go to bed myself. I’ve been waking up way too early lately. Like between 5:30-6am. Just sleep stupid body

Hopefully you can get it rescheduled @Bow I know I would rather be there when it's done.

We have been looking for a car for about the last month. Was planning on waiting for next year to buy one, but found a good deal so brought it today. Don't get it until next year.

It's the first time making a chocolate ripple cake. Mum used to make them every christmas since I was a kid, but she can't anymore so I said I'd make it. I hope mine is as good as hers were.

Glad you found a solution to the ham bag!

Sounds like it has been a busy day for you. Hopefully D sleeps well tonight. I can imagine her being up early tomorrow. What time does she normally wake?

That is early to wake up. It does make it hard to function during the day. Hopefully you can go to sleep soon. Don't think I will be long out of bed either.

Merry Christmas dear @Bow

No doubt you were up early with an excited D! I hope the morning went well.

I hope today goes well for you hon.

Lots of love 💕💕

Merry Christmas dear @Snowie i really hope you have a nice day today with your family and that your mental health will be quiet so you can enjoy 💜

will check in later today

lots of love to you my friend 💜

My brother and SIL have ruined Christmas for us this year. They are so selfish.

We had planned to have Christmas lunch on Boxing Day this year. We usually have it on Christmas Day at our house but my daughter is at her father’s for lunch for the first time. We had this planned all month. Christmas lunch on Boxing Day at our house. We buy everything. Chickens, turkey, ham, all the vegetables, plum pudding, trifle, pav and ALL the trimmings plus drinks. They just come, they don’t bring anything unless they want a parity drink.
She, my SIL messaged my mum during the week asking if we’d like to go around early Christmas morning to do presents with the kids. Sure. That sounds nice, we weren’t doing anything else. But I said to mum I suspect they won’t be coming Boxing Day. I don’t know why I suspected that, just a feeling I had.
We go around there this morning before I dropped D at her fathers to do present with the kids. While we were all sitting around having a pleasant time the SIL said ‘well thanks for coming around this morning, that’s less stress for us tomorrow’ WTF? Mum said ‘what do you mean? Aren’t you coming tomorrow?’ Oh the silence. The awkward silence and looks on their faces. Are you fuc€!Ng kidding???

they are going away on the 27th. Apparently they need to pack???!! WTH??? Does that take ALL day???? You’re going away for 4 days. Up the coast. You’ve known this for how long??? You should have been more prepared. Do they any idea how much time, effort and money we have put into lunch for tomorrow? No actually they wouldn’t cause they have NEVER hosted Christmas lunch, they have AlWAYS come to us. Why do they think it’s ok to break this news to us the day before? ON Christmas Day??? We couldn’t have had it some other time. Last week. Anytime.

they are god dam selfish and inconsiderate

im at home alone now. They said I could go drop my D at her fathers and then come back until they go out at 12:30. Mums there. I didn’t want to go back. I’m angry.

Good evening dear @Bow

I'm sorry about your brother and SIL. That isn't right, especially cancelling that late. Hosting Christmas is so expensive.

I hope you've been able to enjoy some of the day hon.

Will be around for awhile if you need to chat/sit

Hey @Snowie

It really is eh.

the whole days has been pretty crappy. I spent the whole afternoon on the couch doom scrolling and watching crappy tv. D was at her fathers for 4hrs. Poor excuse of a father. He asks to her have her today and that’s all he spends with her. I take D to the shops to buy her father a present and he does the same… I got a container of rocks if there was a bottle shop open today I would of stopped and got a drink…. And I don't drink…. Instead I’ve had a couple of bottles of nob alcoholic grape juice.

I haven’t told D yet. Haven’t told her that they aren’t coming tomorrow for Christmas lunch. She’s already said that she can’t wait to play a couple of new games she got with them. I’ll tell her after we tell her about the cruise… might soften the blow a bit.

only plus…. No pressure to have lunch… we could do dinner and that way we… or I… can go to the Boxing Day sales. Of course need to go get a new pair of PA pjs, not that I need a new pair… but sales!

how was your day hon? Please tell me. Did the kids like their wrapped gifts? My brother in tassie did not appreciate how difficult it was to unwrap his presents lol 😂 but he is a massive grinch

Sorry about the day @Bow It's a shame when some people ruin it for everyone.

The things with kids, they remember a lot. D will remember how little time her Dad spent with her. Even though she is young they do take notice.

If I didn't have to drive mum home I think I would have drank too!

Hopefully she's not too hurt about them not coming. I think telling her after you tell her about the holiday is probably a good idea.

I do like the boxing day sales, just not the crowds.

My day went ok. Mum got a bit upset a few times. She tried to help me in the kitchen but just got in the way. Of course I couldn't say anything. I just kept trying to give her easy jobs to do. I think she was glad when I took her home.

There were a few tense moments, prn helped.

The kids loved unwrapping their present. They just kept getting layer after layer. Each layer had a few chocolates in it too. Was quite funny!

Good morning @Snowie dear

just home from the shops. Wasn’t too crowded thankfully. I got some new shorts for the cruise. I absolutely hate shopping for clothes, a lot of ED struggles and it didn’t help today with my mum and D following me around. I snapped at mum 😞 I don’t enjoy shopping with others. I prefer to arrange to just meet up in 2hrs time or whatever.

im so glad your kids got a kick out of unwrapping their gifts!

D found out about the cruise this morning. She really isn’t one for finding out about surprises I’ve decided. Her response was very underwhelming! And then we had a melt down with tears. She didn’t want to go, what about sea monster? What about the titanic? What if it’s really rough. So lots of talking, reassurance, showing her pictures of the ship etc. and now I think she is ok and getting excited! The video I took of her finding out isn’t even worthy of showing!

So now we have our suitcases out and we can start packing! Mum wanted her medium size suitcase…. I smugly said…. What if your daughter kinda buys too much merchandise? 😂 😂 so we are all taking our larger cases!

how are you today? What are you up to?