Life is soooo busy!

3 weeks tomorrow and it will be Christmas! Last year's was very quiet, none of our kids were with us and it wasn't the same! We've just put the decorations up, normally it's about the 26th November but I didn't feel in the mood again this year for some reason! So we finally put the tree up on Thursday and the rest of the decorations on Saturday, there's still the hallway to do! We've got a busy few weeks coming up, starting with this week. It's the annual Christmas cracker in town, we have a charity stall there. Normally it's free but this year they've charged £15 a stall!! We queried this because when we did our own fun day we were told by the council we could not charge charities for coming along, now the rules seem to have changed!I wonder if we brought our fun day back we'd be able to charge other charities? The guy running the cracker says it's administration costs! Well we had those too but still couldn't charge charities! We're setting up and doing until 6.30 then Barry's off to a meeting (with a christmas dinner) Thursday we have another Christmas dinner, then next week we have our own lodge's dinner!! A neighbour asked us to bring back our Xmas party, so after much discussin and trying to sort out a date, we picked 22nd December (no other Saturday was any good) The invites have gone out and we'll see how it goes now! It's not a big one like it used to be, just our usual group of friends that we have dinners with and the kids and a few of the neighbours. Have no idea what we are doing for New year, we can't leave our dog alone because of the fireworks, the couple we usually see the new year in with are going away, so it'll be just the 2 of us by the looks of it! I don't mind staying in as it's a bit worrying going out any time of year with stabbings etc... going on and there always seems to be more fights on New Year's eve!! But I do miss the whole atmosphere of being out and get quite sad as the clock strikes midnight! Oh well....Happy Christmas everyone! x