December 28th 2015 - year in review

As there is only 3 days left of 2015 I thought I would do a review of the pins of the year.

At the beginning of the year I started out with the following:
2 accounts
a total of 121 boards (58 of these are linked to the SJA courses),
on these 121 boards I have 7,016pins (681 are on SJA). 
Some of those on my personal account are already in a board named challenge and completed - a total if 19! 
This means that I have 6,316pins

Therefore the pin a day should have been relatively easy to do!  Wrong!  this was much harder than I thought it would be as some days when I wanted to do a "set pin" I was unable to, mainly because of the pain in my knee etc.  However, I have almost done it, yes some pins have been duplicated and I have pinned many new things.

At the end of the year I have:
2 accounts
a total of 146 boards (57 of these are linked to SJA courses)
on these 146 boards I have 11,000 pins (1,200 are on SJA)
19 were previously done as a challenge
this means that I have 10, 981 pins to do the challenge and that I have made 25 more boards and added 4,665 new pins. 

I think that's pretty good considering how much time I spend on Pinterest, I thought I would have added many more than this.

I have enjoyed this pin a day even though it hasn't been easy.  A few times I wanted to give up but I don't quit things unless I have to!

December 27th 2015 - santa and reindeer

My lil man was playing with an empty box and this reminded me and my sister of us many years ago when we were kids and we were using an empty box as a car.

My sis started pushing him round with the broom but was worried she would break it so we spent a good 10-15minutes trying to work out what we could use to move the box instead.  We decided that we could use string and duct tape.  Lil man decided that is was a sleigh and he was santa - he ran off and came back with a santa hat.  Then when my sister started pulling the box he said it was his sleigh and my sister was a reindeer.  To which he ran off and came back with a set of antlers for her!

At this point we did have a bit of a laugh, but my sis played along and was pulling santa in his sleigh around the room.  Then it got even funnier as he wanted to be the reindeer and made my sister be santa in the sleigh.  He couldn't pull it on his own so his brothers helped and as they did my sister split the box as she fell out of it!

We fixed the sleigh with more duct tape and the older 2 took turns in it as well.  THEN I decided I was going to be santa!  I got to the floor and in the box (just) and put my santa hat on.  My sis was still upfront as the reindeer.  Hubby had the camera and we couldn't do anything but laugh, it was so funny!  My sis tried and tried to pull me which made us laugh even more and then she managed to move it and i broke the box as I fell backwards and her forwards which made us laugh even more.

There was no alcohol consumed in us being silly  and having a good laugh but it was a great evening.

December 26th 2015 - Boxing day sales

Me and my my sister decided that we were going to hit the boxing day sales up town.  There are a few shops that she wanted to go to as the stores are not local to where she lives.  We thought we would only be a couple of hours.....6hrs later and a missed lunch we finally came home.  She had spent a fortune, me not so much but we had nothing worth while to show for it! lol!

December 25th 2015 - Christmas day

Today is Christmas day!  the most brilliant day of the year!  I love christmas.

I know I did the same when I was a child but really boys 3:10am and telling each other to wake up and see if santa's been is TOO EARLY!  Yes daddy told you to go back to sleep for bit longer but 4:15am is STILL TOO EARLY!!!  hence grumpy mummy telling you to shut up and sleep or she would get santa to collect everything!!

6:15am is just about acceptable as it is christmas day.   I did get up and have a coffee and then could start to think about the day and opening presents.

We started easy with stockings (which were full to bursting with odds n sods - thanks santa for that!)  we then had breakfast and got dressed before we started on the huge pile of gifts under the tree:

And this was me cutting down!

December 24th 2015 - christmas eve

It's christmas eve!!!  The elves have left the kids a christmas eve box like they do every year.  In it is a craft, a dvd, a book, pjs, bubble bath, snacks, stockings and elf socks.

Not sure who is more excited me, my sister or the kids!!!   I have never known my sister to be this excited.

Her and my eldest son went to the cinema this afternoon to watch the new star wars movie and the younger 2 watched a dvd on tv and had popcorn to go with it.  Once my sis and son were home they got into their new pjs, we all had snacks for tea and watched the dvd.  They then put their stockings upstairs and all went to bed very excited!

December 23rd 2015 - Sister

My sister lives over 5hrs drive away from us since we moved north few years back.  Sadly we dont see each other as much as we would like to due to her job and our money situation.  SO today is a good day as she came up to stay with us for christmas.

This pin is sooooo us:

 

I'm hoping that in the near future she will also move up here with us, not in my house as 1. it's not big enough and 2. we would kill each other after a week!  Here's to a good few days and christmas together.

December 22nd 2015 - Pain Doctor

I had the Chronic Pain Clinic today and the doctor said that  I need to do more and stop worrying about the pain as i'm not actually doing damage to my knee.

It's ok saying do more, but when I do i'm in more pain for a few days afterwards which isn't good and it's not him in pain!

He was going to do another injection but as I said i'm managing at the moment he didn't and said will re-assess in the new year as to whether I need another one.