Like the Napoli in Lossiemouth used to do. I miss those.
Anyway, Xmas is coming up fast, money is tight, I'm cooking my very first family Xmas meal (for the three of us) which will be interesting as we have but a single small oven and not that many trays/dishes/receptacles to cook with that will all fit in at once. So in the back of my mind (it's why I look spaced these days) I'm trying to figure out what I'm cooking, when, how, in what order and on what day so that everything is cooked and heated through by Xmas Eve dinnertime.
This is also the first year that "Xmas is for the kids" has really started to stick, too. Friends of ours who would rather we get something small for the kids and nothing for them - it's not just austerity, it's practicality. And I'm sat here thinking... there was nothing on my Xmas list that was selfishly for me apart from a couple of DVDs (which I'll need to have when I can't sleep in 3rd tri or am breastfeeding late at night/early in the morning and need to somehow remain conscious throughout the process). I had bedding, a frying pan, some other inconsequential shit... and it brings to sharp relief the utter CRAP I felt I had to possess when I was a child/teenager, and to a certain extent a young adult. You don't NEED crap, you need family and friends and a sense of self-worth and purpose. Assuming you have a roof over your head and food in the fridge, the rest of that should be enough to make you happy. You don't need gadgets and gizmo's and excessive quantities of clothing or whatever.
So just take a step back from the materialistic side of things and concentrate on who makes you happy.
Toddler news: he's sleeping in a big bed now, a single mattress on the floor. He likes being able to get on and off it himself and enjoys the room to move around.
Baby news: Down's risk has been assessed as 1 in 20601 (which is awesome) and I've started to feel slight movements already <3 15 weeks and change.
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