Weekend

We hit the Christmas fair at St. Michael's Church in Chiswick this Saturday. Picked up a couple of Christmas presents and Maddie got her face painted. We planned to come back home, play with the bunnies and clean out the bunny house, and then head into central London to the Oxford Circus area where all the shops are decorated and the lights are up. Then Maddie and Skip decided to spend a little time at the park, and by the time they got home, it was really COLD. So we opted to hit the worlds largest urban mall for some indoor holiday entertainment.



Lots of people at the gi-normous mall, but most were carrying one or no bags. Skip bought a scarf. That was our contribution to the economy.




On Sunday, we woke up to a light snow. It didn't stay very long, but was pretty while it lasted. We played hookey from church. Still no car and the snow turned into rain. Plus, the kids in Sunday School are working on a Christmas pageant that they will put on on the 21st--when we'll already be in LR. Maddie does not like missing a chance to be in a play, so the next two weekends of church are not going to be all that fun for her. But I did just get an e-mail from the pastor asking if our family would like to light the Advent candle on the second Sunday of Advent. She'll like that.

We ate odd meals all weekend long as I was trying to get the frig and freezer cleaned out for my Thanksgiving food delivery. The grocery store I order and/or buy most of my food from is closing down starting tomorrow for a week for remodeling. Imagine! Closing a grocery store the week of Thanksgiving. It's positively un-American. Got the delivery today and all fits. Although I may have to find a way to get to another store or do a last minute order from somewhere else to get a few more things. We won't have Thanskgiving dinner until Friday night as Thursday is the big international day at Maddie's school and I'll be there most of the day.

I have come just short of threatening the people who have our car, and the guy told me that if my car is not ready on Wednesday, the will get me a car to borrow even if they have to hire one. I'm going to have to take about 200 baked items to ACS Hillingdon on Thursday, and I'm not hauling them on the train...or the bus.