We took this photo when we were at the garden centre waiting for friends to arrive so we could see Santa with the children. Except they went to a different one.

Anyway, in all we had a good day. We started fairly gently before going for music lessons. Katie was really pleased to be there, she did some good concentrating but not for very long. She was a little too tired to learn a lot today. But she was a happy girl to have her lesson. I then had mine and she was also pleased to snuggle on B's sofa watching tv.

When we got home she had some lunch and then went out with her friend to go shopping. Lydi's mum went with them but apparently lydia told her to leave them to it so they got on with it and were very grown up.

When I picked katie up we went home briefly before heading out to the garden centre. We wandered round the pretties, went to see the reindeer, chose a couple of decorations for the tree and spoke to Santa when he came out for a break.

We left and wait straight to lydia's house for a Christmas party. The kids ran straight upstairs and played very noisily but happily!