So I made to christmas and was really happy with my efforts.

Friday night was spent at the church with their "whoville" christmas celebrations and that was a fantastic couple of hours spent with the kids doing activities and patting farm animals and just being together with nice people.

Saturday night we attended the christmas carol spectacular at the Wollongong Entertainment centre and sung up a storm with the boys and saw Santa. My youngest exclaimed "he's the one mum!" thinking that he was the real Santa and was very excited.

Sunday night we went on a 2hr drive around the local area looking at christams lights and calling out Christmas Wishes to everyone we passed by. The kids even got some lollies from some of the decorated houses who had themselves dressed as Santa for the occassion. this was by far the best for instilling the christmas feeling, and so simple. The boys really enjoyed themselves. When we came home we had dinner and were allowed to open 1 present from underneath the tree, then some carols on the telly and off to bed for santa to come

This morning was surprisingly not an early one, with me being the first awake. So I got up and turned on the christmas lights in the lounge room ready for them to wake. they unwrapped their presents and were all happy with their gifts ( which was fantastic ). We had pancakes and maple syrup for breakfast . And then it was just fighting till 11.30 when I dropped them with their dad early because I had had enough.

The rest of my day has been spent just trying to get over the mornings events, and a visit to my surrogate family for a couple of hours. I am going to pick up the boys shortly so who knows what kind of mood they will be in? I am hoping for the best, trying to stay positive. So wish me luck.