I’m feeling a bit dazed this morning. Somehow we always manage to lose track of time. It’s about four weeks to Christmas, and the next week or two are going to be consumed by preparations for Jessica and Sophie’s end of year ballet and acrobatics performances. We’ve got a half day rehearsal this Sunday, a rehearsal next week, one all day next Sunday, then a dress rehearsal, then two performances of the three hour long show. I get tired just thinking about it, and Marianne’s got to do it! The five minutes of stage time the girls will clock up will be brilliant, but this does seem the hard way to do things,.

My mum’s due out of hospital tomorrow, which is a great thing. Her surgery seems to have gone well, and she is in good spirits. I’m not sure she expected to be coming home at all, so it’s been a great thing to see it all work out. I’ve been going over to her house every morning to water the garden and all of that stuff. This morning I decided to see if I could get ten minutes at a coffee shop before starting work. That’s where this photo was taken.

What next for me? Well, I need to work out Christmas menus. The family are coming to our house, which will be great, but we need to do something nice. Also I want to work out some fun things for the girls to do. Usually our family events are pretty dull for them. There are six or seven adults, and two little kids. I think games or something would make it work. Maybe I’ll ask Uncle Stevie to do that . I also need to get more work done on Recommended Reading, draft my essay for Locus, write three book proposals, and give some thought to actually reading. On that front, no sign of Matter yet. Sigh.