It keeps on growing,
My huge pile of ironing
Is neverending…
As if I didn’t have enough on with sleepovers and sick kids, and running on empty…
There was a huge pile of ironing staring at me!
So armed with water to refill the iron, and The X-Factor final to keep me company I managed to tackle it!
Phew!
So, theoretically, tomorrow, I just have an early run to take the boys to a football match, and mend my daughter, not forgetting to bake some cookies … I might be able to squeeze a nap in too!
😯:?:)
Thank you dear Shivangi, for seeing Awesomeness, or even Epic awesomeness in me, at a time I feel shattered and totally below par. It’s the kind of pick me up I needed! Thank you again!
A reblog of gratefulness and filled with appreciation and thanks! ☺
I’ve been nominated for this
award title by my dearest blogger friend Millie Thom, whose works are always on my must read list.
She is a versatile writer, who packs creativity and information masterfully in her works. Her castle explorations and travelogues are memorable works, fit to be included in study courses. Do peep into her blog and you will know not one word here is an exaggeration. I am very thankful to her for nominating me for The Epic Awesomness Award. It is awesome to be referred to as awesome by a blogger as awesome as Millie…!
Before I begin about this award in particular, allow me to apologise to some of my blogger friends who nominated me for various awards, but I couldn’t accept those due to time constraints, sicknesses, domestic duties. Nevertheless, I have been very very thankful to them for encouragement and support.
So, it’s been a fraught, hectic week in Ritu-Land, with work, assessing children, getting ready for Christmas performances, and the like, then there is the home side duties too!
Throw in 3 nights of awful sleep because Lil Princess has been waking at ‘stupid’ o’clock.. (due to a bug which is now fully out and she is cuddled up on the sofa with a blanket), I am a pretty tired Ritu!
Already this morning, I have sent Lil Man to Football training, done the Grocery shopping, changed bedsheets, and now am sat down with a cup of tea finally! Still to come, lunch (which I should be making now) and then a visit to the In-Laws, picking up Lil Man’s friend on the way as he is coming over for a sleepover! The relaxation won’t start there.. they have a football match to get to by 9am so we need to do that drop pff, but also get them up and ready, and breakfasted too!
So, I needed a pick me up…
I don’t often share songs, but this particular one has become a bit of an earworm… I have it on a Christmas kids CD that we were playing at nursery, and my colleague loves it, so I listened more carefully, and now I can’t stop humming it or singing it… so this seasonal earworm, I had to share! I hope you enjoy it too!
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
Don’t want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy
I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
I don’t think Santa Claus will mind, do you?
He won’t have to use our dirty chimney flue
Just bring him through the front door,
that’s the easy thing to do
I can see me now on Christmas morning,
creeping down the stairs
Oh what joy and what surprise
when I open up my eyes
to see a hippo hero standing there
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses
I only like hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me too
Mom says the hippo would eat me up, but then
Teacher says a hippo is a vegeterian.
(Short Music Interlude)
There’s lots of room for him in our two-car garage
I’d feed him there and wash him there and give him his massage
I can see me now on Christmas morning,
creeping down the stairs
Oh what joy and what surprise
when I open up my eyes
to see a hippo hero standing there
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles or rhinoceroseses
I only like hippopotamuseses
And hippopotamuses like me too!
7.10am… And it’s still so dark…
I don’t know if I think the same thing every year, or if it’s staying darker for longer!!!
I should really be tucked up in bed, not making my way to school!
Surely there should be a law against getting out of bed when even the sun is still tucked up in his cloudy duvet??!!
