Wintery weekend

We had a really lovely weekend. Saturday wasn't much fun but we ticked a major job off our list - we bought a new car. We drove out to Croydon with Toby getting carsick about halfway there. We traded in our car and Jason and I kept joking about "oh yea, the radio isn't working and you can't open the trunk... that vomit will wash right out though... so... what'll you give us?" We were very happy with the deal and the new car will be delivered this week and they'll drive our old car away.

I ended up with another Renault Scenic. This one is a Grande Scenic which means it has seven seats instead of five. I am so cool.

Yesterday Jenny, Kieran, Jack, Kate and Jen's mum came down for Jack's birthday. We went to Cafe Sol in Greenwich for Mexican food then walked through the park. Jason and Kieran played chase with the children (Jason was alseep on the couch within an hour of getting home) and we walked up to the top of the hill right at sunset. It was freezing but beautiful.

Unfortunately Toby refused to wear his scarf yesterday, was up coughing all night and is home from school today. I'm off to New York on Friday so I'm trying to get him well before I go. I've been trying to get my head around packing and preparing for the trip but there's so much going on here at the moment. We've had the builders in to do odd jobs and replace some bookshelves. We've got loads of Christmas activities and I have the Christmas shopping to finish. This week we also have Toby's school nativity play. Because Tobes is in Year 2 they're doing the play with the Juniors rather than the Infants so it's an evening show at the church. Busy times!