I thort I saw a puddy cat

I did I did. It's bugsie who lives next door. L wanted me to take him.

I've been experimenting doing 10 mins exercise first thing in the morning. Weights or just press ups, sit ups, burpees. That kind of thing to try and get me feeling energised for the day. Normally the kids are up by six bugging me and the exercises get a little stressful as I try to sweat and be a mummy. Today though the kids were still sound asleep. E let slip when she woke that grandad let them stay up 2 hours past their bed time last night. He basically said they could go to bed when they fancied despite me saying 7:40 pm at the latest. As a result I've had 2 tearful, grumpy, clumsy girlies all afternoon. Thank goodness I put L to bed before we left. I know grandparents like to treat their grand kids but it shouldn't be in a way that ruins the rest of the following day. Last time he sat for us he gave them smarties & cake immediately before bed. :-s

Toddler time this morning and then I went into town to get material scraps & zips to make some Xmas presents.

This evening we've started making the glitter paper cut outs for our advent calendar and allocated responsibility for each xmassy entry on the calendar. Love a good list.

Must have put a secret weapon in our turkey balls for dinner, aside from the hunks of garlic as I impressed myself at ME this evening. Definitely feeling stronger.