The Christmas blog entry... I promised myself I wouldn't do this, how predictable. The number of posts must sky rocket at this time of year.

We, that is my two children and I, travelled down to Devon and met up with my mum and my sister's family, a brief chat with my brother (who has been in Vancouver for the last 13 years) and that's it, reunited again. We had plenty of food, lots of gifts and a lot of games to play. My ex and I agreed (did I mention I'm divorced yet?) to try a new approach to dividing the children's time between ourselves this year. In previous years we have split the time on a "couple of nights with you.... couple of nights with me" basis. This year I was asked if I would be prepared to split the time more or less into two large blocks. I was sceptical because I really love to spend time with the girls as often as possible and I was also worried that they might feel sorry for the parent who was elsewhere.

The kids had the best time ever, with time to play with their gifts and I actually had time to relax during the holiday.

Due to the incredible generosity of a complete stranger (thank you Jo! :-x ) we got a Nintendo Wii and its very cool. Both of the girls enjoyed boxing... which was a surprise! Will exposure to tennis, golf etc. in these diluted forms work out as a positive or a negative influence on their sporting aspirations overall? I wonder how much of a shock it will be when they feel the weight of a racquet or the effect of the ball hitting the racquet? I hope they don't actually try contact boxing though. (I try to keep away from the console wars arguments but I can't help myself.... It's really FUN, go and buy one NOW.)

Also.... have a look at "wall and piece" about "Banksy", awesome, inspiring stuff.  What a great gift, thanks you two!

Now we move towards new year & probably a new year party to embarrass myself at. I have a week to catch up with my friends while still on holiday. I'm nervous that I'll end up tidying or DIYing, but we'll see. After that I guess it's back to the gym with my pathetic trainee who absolutely must work harder (more about them later) ((and I have to work off all this turkey)) , then back to the computing and the working and the crash dumps boo-hey they taunt me. {frink}

Oh no I feel the obligatory cheesy end of post.... I can't help myself.....

Merry Christmas and I hope you all have a happy new year.

Ohhh god that felt good.