It's been a cold and frosty one this year
- most definitely a White Christmas,
with temps at least -21ºC all week.
That has made for very short and functional dog-walking sessions.
They don't look too bothered though, do they?
Honey prefers to sport the Santa hat.
So warm evenings at home with the family have been welcome, watching movies and catching up on recorded episodes of various tv series.
Following her rather dramatic and worrying mobility issues over the past few months, Daughter Number One began to walk normally last week. And hurray for that.
The wibbly-wobbly post-concussion symptoms have almost completely gone, and her physio gave her the green light to return to her ballet classes, very gently. Which of course she did not comply with, and came back home from class with a video of her doing a full contemporary routine. Just because.
However, "Just Dance 4" on the Wii has provided laughter and exercise for both the girls this week. And much hilarity as my husband and I attempted to copy some moves.
Two left feet, each!
Too much chocolate has been consumed. The long sought-after pyjama mornings have been realised. And I still have another week off work. This is good.
We will kick off 2013 with more "house work" - we are having new windows fitted on 2nd January (brrrrr, good job the forecast is for above freezing) and, as sad as it sounds, I am very excited to see what they will be like. White UPVC (no more sanding and staining the ice-soaked and rotting wood cills), triple glazed (this better feel warmer) and a sun-stop style coating on the front windows, to alleviate that just-cooked feeling in the summer months.
However, as we remove all the golden oak architrave surrounds on the windows, and replace them with a simple, modern white wood, it's going to have a dramatic knock-on effect around the whole home, which I suspect may take the best part of 2013 to change and match up. Oh goody, more painting.
And how is your in-between week going?
