Marie's Web Log

On Tuesday we got five Christmas cards in the post. Unfortunately, only one of them was for us. The other four were for two sets of previous occupants - the Smiths and the Dornans. We had another one for the Smiths today. In total, I think the Smiths are beating the Dornans four to two.

The same thing happened last year. We had about eight or nine for them, about the same as we got ourselves! And not one of them with a return address. When we first moved in I asked the estate agents if they had any forwarding address and they said no. So the cards go into the recycling bin. Let this be a lesson to you - only send cards to people to whom you are close enough to know where they live. Or, failing that, at least put a return address on the envelope.

Amelia finished daycare on Monday. It was her last day in the "toddler unit" – in January she will be moving up the the nursery, which is for three- and four-year-olds. There will be about 20 children, as opposed to eight or nine, so I hope she will cope OK. They've been taking her group up to the nursery for visits for quite a while. Also they kindly took some photos of Amelia in the nursery for us to show her during the break, which we hope will help lessen the adjustment.

We have our tree up and some gifts underneath it. Amelia says "Happy Birthday Kisskiss," because she thinks the cards are birthday cards. Though she has changed the pronounciation to "Kamismus" in the last few days. She isn't overly excited - I think she's still a little too young, and she never has been one to go into raptures at the thought of getting new toys.

She has certainly increased her energy level in the past month or so, and wants to run and jump all the time. Last week she walked almost all the way back from the Leisure Centre, more than a mile! And the other day when I asked her what she wanted to do, she said, "I want to jump and play." Today we went down to Teignmouth (on the coast). It was a beautiful sunny day and there is quite an impressive play park down there which she had fun running around in. She wasn't even bothered by the crowds of other children.

All for now.