Thank Goodness for the weekend!
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!
HAPPY SATURDAY PEEPS!
