Christmas is coming...

the Mummy McTavish is getting fat, please put a penny in the old man's hat.

I don't know who that old man is but he should be pretty rich by now, rich with pennies that are useless as currency here, but rich none the less.

Please excuse the munching in the background. I loaded the dishwasher and only found half a load so I decided to finish off the biscuits in the bikkie bucket to have something else to help fill up the washer... that's totally a reasonable excuse isn't it?

I know it's Friday and other people do their randomness on Mondays or Tuesdays or something but I am feeling wild so here's my totally random Christmas themed thoughts for today.

I need to bake two or three Christmas cakes this weekend. I only wanted to do a small one so I thought I would offer the rest of the mix to my friend so she can make one (or I'll make it for her really) and we'll decorate them together but the mix doesn't do two that are a decent (yet small) size so I've thrown in some more fruit to soak to make a double mix and I'll make three small ones and give the third away... undecorated though.

I have to have the boys Christmas shirts done by next Tuesday for playgroup. I don't really, I could use the many Christmas shirts we already have for the playgroup Christmas breakup but I also need to get a photo of the boys in their Christmas shirts with enough time for me to procrastinate and not get anything done with it for Christmas.

I bought a set of star cookie cutters the other day. I needed a big one for my Christmas cake and the set of 5 was the same price as buying one big one all by itself. I am thinking we might try Mum-me's Cookie Christmas Tree this year. I don't have a good record with rolled and cut biscuits though so we'll see how it goes. I'll have to see if I can find an idiot-proof recipe.

I have also bought some stuff for some Christmassy craft for me to put aside and forget about until after Christmas the kids to do.

My next Christmas dilemma is the candy cane issue. They are the kiddie-crack of Christmas, are they not? They send the kids crazier than just about any other lolly the rest of the year and they are handed out as freely as prescription meds at schoolies. This year I was thinking I'd do a candy cane exchange for the boys. I'd buy a bunch of natural candy canes and when they got a kiddie-crack-cane I'd exchange it for one that wasn't quite so bad. Problem is I can't find any natural candy canes. I have a feeling I'll have to resort to stealing the kids lollies like I have in years past. I found 4 candy canes in the fridge when I cleaned it out for the men to take it away, I don't know how many years they have been in there.

I also bought a frog shaped cookie cutter when I bought the star ones... it was too cute to leave on the shelf.

Because I hate to post without a photo here's one of Lion "rockin' out" on his air guitar as Miss L entered the church for her wedding... He was silently rockin' and I am sure Miss L will have a laugh when I tell her about it when she returns from her honeymoon. Miss L is their favourite babysitter. And before you ask, yes, my son wore that to a wedding. It was a last minute decision to go and Wolf and I were dressed a lot better but the kids were in nice clothes but not dressy clothes, we just went for a sticky beak. She was beautiful but none of my photos worked out because they have a lot of tall friends and family so they all had strangers heads in the way. Lion's quote of the day was "I know which one is her but I just don't recognise her" I think that's a compliment. Dragon was sad and pouty because she was getting married. He cheered up a bit when we explained that she will still be able to babysit him and he can still be her friend, she'll just be Mrs L now.