A Pathetic Effort of a Week

HOWEVER….I did take the Christmas decorations down today with the help of my daughter. This week was kind of the holiday I didn´t have before when I was sick and I watched a few movies, read a few books and had copious naps during the day when the kids were away. But no decluttering was accomplished. But I must admit its nice having the decorations, tree and light down. All it took was my husband´s contribution which was to bring two boxes up from the cellar for me to store it all it (yes, fake tree for third year in a row, good value ). Then it took us about 45 mins to take it all down and sweep up pine needles (from real branches scattered around), dried up mistletoe and a few shards of glass from ornaments that my destrucTOR (that´s a joke on his name) son broke- ornaments I had owned for ten years, sob.

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Christmas Spirit

A busy weekend and not much accomplished life as far as getting organised. I have been sick with the flu for the last three weeks and the apartment is a state and a half…..and my mother in law is coming on Saturday!

We did a lot of family things this weekend which was lovely, a children´s Christmas party with other ex-pats for St Nikolaus Day and today a visit to the famous Christmas markets in Nuremberg which left me exhausted jointly because of illness and pregnancy too.

My children received some early Christmas cheer today as we listened to Christmas music in the car on the way to Nuremberg from Munich- I taught them the words to Feliz Navidad and my daughter did a lot of singing of Deck the Halls which she had learnt from her new Barbie video.

On St Nikolaus Day (and the day before which was a school day) in Germany children receive hessian sacks filled with chocolate, nuts, mandarins, apples and perhaps a small toy. Its a lovely tradition – sometimes sacks are not used and children´s shoes are filled up in the morning through an overnight visit .

I did manage to pick up some cute and inexpensive straw and wooden Christmas decorations in Nuremberg though which I look forward to putting up over the next few days and I have made a big list of all the cleaning and tidying to do. And that includes making the house look more festive- its rather bedraggled now and our plastic Christmas tree is rather low-key. So, I will be getting the camera out tomorrow!

Filed under: Christmas, Things the children and I have done