New Year celebrations etc.

This muddles things up a bit, coz Mark's posted about Valentines day already, but skipping back a bit I ought to mention our weekend (especially for those who wonder why we weren't at church on Sunday- as if anybody noticed!) Our very special friends Dave and Rhiannon, Sam, and the newly-added Oscar came for the weekend so that we could 'do' New Year. We had a lovely time just doing those holiday things that we all missed out on through everybody being ill. By 'those holiday things' I just mean eating and drinking A LOT and sitting around chatting and laughing together. It really felt like a holiday, and despite almost no sleep for anybody due to 2 babies and an excitable toddler, we all had a lovely time. Tiring as it always is when they visit (even without all the bed-hopping for those under 3s, we always stay up stupidly late) it does make me long for those days when they just lived upstairs. I miss them!
Mark scored loads of points with me for generally keeping on top of tidying and meal-preparation while they were here (and letting me lie-in on Sunday), then on Monday he emptied our garage into the car and went to the tip- so with that AND taking me to Ikea yesterday he had one happy Valentine!