Christmas is coming

Try as I might there is no escaping it. People here have had trees and lights up for weeks, I love christmas but cannot get my head around decorating before December. As the 1st is tomorrow and we have little intention of doing it today it looks like I will be able to stick to my guns. Last night we went to the official turning on of the christmas tree lights in Bronte which was really sweet. Not many people were out this year and the rather desperate plea by the head of the business association to ask us to go shopping probably tells you alot about the economy. Finally this week the Canadian PM admitted that we are also in recession. I have never seen as many sale bargains at Christmas before and I just hope that it doesn’t make the situation worse.

Despite our recent run of bad luck on the health front I am happy to report that we are all healthy at the moment. I am just hoping that this continues as I have to take Patrick for a hearing test in 2 weeks and they can’t do it if he has another infection. Now he is healthy he is back to really enjoying nursery and whilst I think he looks to be a bit of a handful the reports I get are positive and that he does everything they ask him to do. He seems to be taking more of an interest in arts and crafts and our display line is now full of his masterpieces rather than his sisters.

Grace has fully embraced the idea of christmas and will pretty much ask for anything she sees on the television. I tried to outsmart her the other day by pre-empting the ‘I would really like that from Santa’ when she commented – “Mummy, you can’t have everything you know!”. Its reasurring to know that at least she hears what I’m saying even if she doesn’t put it into practise.

The christmas tree lighting ceremony has nicely marked the start of our christmas calendar. We will all be going to the german christmas market in Kitchener next Saturday and then on Sunday it is the Amgen kids christmas party. I am hoping that the Santa photo will be as good as last years but that does require Patrick to sit still for more than 2 seconds which can never be guarenteed.

I have found a fabulous babysitter and so Diesel and I are gradually starting to get a social life which is fun. Grace really likes her which makes life alot easier although it is quite painful on the pocket adding $50 to your night out. For the first time this year we have actually been able to say yes to christmas party invitations at our friends so we are looking forward to that.

Having Patricks birthday in December does mean that I put Christmas on the back burner while I focus on that. We are having his party at Balls of Fun which is his favourite place to go mad. He actually has quite a few little friends his own age which is nice and he seems to be really into birthdays, cake and candles so I am really excited to see how he is this year. Fingers crossed that we don’t have the storm that we had last year!