Snow Angels Sunday

[Kittykatt]

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Pick 3 things
Do them
Post your TaDas!

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[Kittykatt]

A snow angel is a design made in fresh snow by lying on one's back and moving one's arms up and down, and one's legs from side to side to form the shape of an angel.

Creating the snow angel is a simple process. The first step is to find an undisturbed plane of fresh snow. The next step is to lie with arms and legs outstretched on the snow. The limbs are then swept back and forth, creating a trough through the snow. When it is finished, the snow angel should have the appearance of a stylized angel, the movement of the arms having formed wings, and that of the legs having formed a gown. Fresh, light, powdery snow makes the best snow angel rather than heavy, sticky snow.

[Kittykatt]

Happy Sunday, everyone!

Laura, if your DDad hasn't baked cakes before, could you encourage him to start with something very easy to do, to build his confidence?

Dogged, ikwym about creating more of a mess in order to eventually improve things!

Gma, how very kind to take gifts to the Salvation Army .

Today is church, coffee with DF E, and then, after we've had lunch, a nap is in my future!

[Kittykatt]

To do:
Cuddles and snack for Matilda, Jude and Freddie
Bible reading and meditation
Update latest Waitrose order
Cup of tea
Get up!
Scrub out litter trays (DH)
Change sheets on bed
Shower/wash hair/moisturiser and sunblock/ clean and floss teeth
S/S bathroom
Physio exercises
Get dressed in casual clothes
Give everyone fresh water
Cat breakfast and meds /supplements
Breakfast and meds /vitamins for me
Quick kitchen clean up
Hang up towels that washed overnight
Load DW
Quick PUPA downstairs
Quick dust and Hoover downstairs
Change into smarter outfit
OTD to church
Coffee with DF E
Back home again, change back into casual clothes
Meat in oven
Hang up sheets to dry
Coffee with DH
Put potatoes and veg to roast
Put up my vitamins and supplements for the week
Weigh out Jude's and Matilda's dry food for the week
Quick PUPA upstairs
15 minutes in tiny front garden
15 minutes in back garden
Dish up lunch
Walk Freddie
Lap time with Freddie
Lap time with Jude
Cuddles with Matilda
Head rubs with Freddie, Jude and Matilda
Play with Freddie, Jude, Matilda
Fold laundry and PA
Run DW when full
Unload DW
Post list with my plans for the week
Clothes laid out for tomorrow

Extras:
Work on photographs?

[trissie]

I'd guess snow angels are not commonly done in England, are they, kittykatt?

I never got back here yesterday. We went to the Christmas tree lightning, which is like a little fair with stalls with overpriced food, drinks and toys, there was a performance by a B-level singer (I know her, she was a big thing in musicals in the 1990's and 2000's, I guess she's still a showperson), a laser dancer show (think firedancer, but instead of fire hoops it's LED-lights on the hoops), and a performance by kindergarten (which is 3-6 years here) and elementary school kids. I don't have perfect pitch, but pretty close. I suffered badly the kids closest to the microphone wasn't able to hold a tone and did not remember the lyrics. Luckily, I wisely packed a thermos of mulled wine, which did make things better (and a pair of really warm fur-lined shoes, so my toes were perfectly fine)

Today, it's baking day - the kids want to decorate gingerbreads in the evening and I'd like to finish all the "must haves" that are done in advance.
Frenchie, if you store the gingerbread men in an airtight box, they will be fine for weeks and even for months!

TaDas
- dressed to shoes
- breakfast and coffee and reading
- internet time

ToDos
- morning routine
- reclaim kitchen
- baking!!!

Braindump
routines
- midday routine
- afternoon routine
- evening routine
food
- lunch
- dinner
- bake something sweet
- freezer cooking
- feed breadstarter
organization
- update land contract
- house insurance status?
- rework contract with DS14's therapist
- homework and backpacks
- DBD's speech therapy
- 15 on filing
cleaning
- spiff up twins' room
- spiff up DBD's room
- spiff up DS13's room
- spiff up master bedroom
- spiff up master bathroom
- spiff up kitchen
- spiff up living room
- spiff up office
- spiff up downstairs bathroom and hallways
laundry
- load of cleaning rags
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading
Christmas preps
- finalize photo selection!!!!
- bake Linz cookies - batch No. 2
- bake walnut cookies
- assemble walnut cookies
- bake 3rd batch of gingerbread cookies, including a nativity
- gingerbread cookie decorating
- bake 2nd batch of vanilla rolls
- something with the 4 egg whites in the fridge? - now there's 10 of them and that's after I made an omelette!
- 15 on wrapping session
- decorate with DBD
House&Holidays - I kinda really should do something about it
- week 1 deep cleaning - office
- week 3 deep cleaning - DBD's room
- week 6 deep cleaning - twins' room
- week 7 deep cleaning - master bathroom
- week 9 deep cleaning - living bathroom
- week 10 deep cleaning - kitchen
- week 11 deep cleaning - pantry
- week 13 deep cleaning - storage spaces
- week 14 deep cleaning - public spaces
- week 3 Christmas tasks
- week 4 Christmas tasks
- week 5 Christmas tasks
- week 6 Christmas tasks
- week 7 Christmas tasks
- week 8 Christmas tasks
- week 9 Christmas tasks
- week 10 Christmas tasks
- week 11 Christmas tasks
- week 12 Christmas tasks
- week 13 Christmas tasks
- week 14 Christmas tasks
- week 15 Christmas tasks

[FrenchFlybebe]

◕‿◕ * * * Good Morning! * * * ◕‿◕

trissie, thanks for the cookie storing advice, and coming from an expert I know I can follow it with no second thought. Sorry you had to endure poor singing in the cold.

kittykatt, thanks for the start, glad you found someone for your repair. Never did snow angels, I think you really need snowproof clothes to do that. I hope you have a good time at church and a peaceful Sunday.

Rainy and windy Sunday. DS7 needs some fresh air and exercise but won't get any, I'm afraid, and we won't get any rest until he does but that's life, and I won't complain having a lively, healthy kid just because he's tired and a bit excited about Christmas.That's what I need to keep in mind today
Yesterday's family movie was Rise of the Guardians (in French, it's titled the five legends)
We stayed in bed late, DS7 had "prepared breakfast", ie he had got a lot of things out of the fridge, all breakfast-related, and some extra, and set cups and knives and glasses - he was quite proud of himself.
Not sure what we will do with our indoors day. It's almost noon already, so I think things will figure themselves out.

TADAs
up late, all fed bfast set by DS7
cleaneup, dw emptied
offered a Christmas-related decoration project, but both DS were uninterested and prefered a paper airplane contest that ended in a fight
started a lol

TODO
fill washer with remaining clothes and re start lol
lol out
MrNG is suppoed to prep some 'easy' lunch with veggies and fish and gnocchi - but he's on the phone with a DF...
more admin stuff
important email needs a paper MrNG is supposed to give me before tonight
some lunchbox cooking in the afternoon
bake gingerbread cookies ?
things from to-do list and Christmas list
relax and read, stitching project ?
also prepare list for next week
dinner
bed early

[helia]

I might try making gingerbread men this year too, thanks to your info that they store well, trissie. Sounds like the outing yesterday was at least interesting. Nice - fur lined shoes. I just got a new pair that have faux fur around the ankle plus padding to help keep my feet warm. I'm going to try this pair rather than the other pair I wear every winter. (I have been buying a new pair of the same shoe every 2-3 years.)
What did you do with your indoor afternoon, FFB? WTG to DS7!
Enjoy church and lunch with E, Kitty. Glad you're getting a nap!

I'm up and dressed warmly; I'm going to walk while dh runs. I think it will just be 45 minutes this time. The sun isn't quite up and it snowed more last night; I'll bundle up.

Today: 10-12 ish Church, 3:30 - 6-ish CG2 @ either L and B's place or AA's place. Then, 6-? host Sunday dinner for 7?

I caught up on grading and gradelink yesterday but didn't do much else before the party which took the rest of the evening.

BBL with lists.

[trissie]

Frenchie, Rise of the Guardians is a perfect pre-Christmas movie! We did the third Star Trek movie - the twins were at a sleepover and DS wanted some "boy stuff" and he's really into spaceships and stuff. Too bad there's no Star Trek LEGOs - I mean, there's the Enterprise, but that's a bit too pricey! DS7 is supersweet
helia, it's of course fake fur - I bought them as snow shoes at a sports store, but they are a cross between winter hiking shoes and snow shoes and even look good enough to wear to work (if I change into something more appropriate in the office) on very cold snowy days:
https://www.decathlon.cz/p/damske-turis ... ANOV%C3%81

TaDas
- morning routine
- reclaim kitchen
- bake Linz cookies - batch No. 2
- bake walnut cookies
- lunch

ToDos
- midday routine
- finalize photo selection!!!!
- go buy the Christmas tree

Braindump
routines
- afternoon routine
- evening routine
food
- dinner
- bake something sweet
- freezer cooking
- feed breadstarter
organization
- update land contract
- house insurance status?
- rework contract with DS14's therapist
- homework and backpacks
- DBD's speech therapy
- 15 on filing
cleaning
- spiff up twins' room
- spiff up DBD's room
- spiff up DS13's room
- spiff up master bedroom
- spiff up master bathroom
- spiff up kitchen
- spiff up living room
- spiff up office
- spiff up downstairs bathroom and hallways
laundry
- load of cleaning rags
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading
Christmas preps
- assemble walnut cookies
- bake 3rd batch of gingerbread cookies, including a nativity
- gingerbread cookie decorating
- bake 2nd batch of vanilla rolls
- something with the 4 egg whites in the fridge? - now there's 10 of them and that's after I made an omelette!
- 15 on wrapping session
- decorate with DBD
House&Holidays - I kinda really should do something about it
- week 1 deep cleaning - office
- week 3 deep cleaning - DBD's room
- week 6 deep cleaning - twins' room
- week 7 deep cleaning - master bathroom
- week 9 deep cleaning - living bathroom
- week 10 deep cleaning - kitchen
- week 11 deep cleaning - pantry
- week 13 deep cleaning - storage spaces
- week 14 deep cleaning - public spaces
- week 3 Christmas tasks
- week 4 Christmas tasks
- week 5 Christmas tasks
- week 6 Christmas tasks
- week 7 Christmas tasks
- week 8 Christmas tasks
- week 9 Christmas tasks
- week 10 Christmas tasks
- week 11 Christmas tasks
- week 12 Christmas tasks
- week 13 Christmas tasks
- week 14 Christmas tasks
- week 15 Christmas tasks

[FrenchFlybebe]

trissie, yes, we've started the Christmas-themed movies. Which is a good timing because after two Indiana Jones movies they were going to ask for the other ones, and really, there is better stuff to watch. (I'll admit maybe the one with Sean Connery as Jones Senior is okay). About Star Trek, well, neither MrNG nor I are geek enough for it, or maybe it's just because of our ignorance of the Star Trek world, so we won't introduce it to our kids. Nice shoes. I wasn't aware you had Decathlon stores too.

helia Have a good time walking. Isn't it too hard not to be able to run, at the moment? As for our afternoon, it's almost 4 and there are no real plans. But, unplanned is good too.

DS7 was supposed to be in the kitchen at 3.30 to help making cookies, but he is busy in his room, and quiet, so I'm not sure I want to remind him we had an 'appointment'. I got the butter out of the fridge to soften, I will see when he's ready.
DS9 is quietly sticking post stamps on a large sheet of paper. It's hard to have a collection of stamps in 2025 with hardly any letters being sent anymore. Maybe with a few Christmas cards in a few days or weeks he will extend his collection.


TADAs
fill washer with remaining clothes and re start lol
lol out
lunch made by MrNG, cleaned up by me
filled two lunchboxes with leftovers and a small pack of cooked quinoa.

TODO
Christmas cookies with DS7? gingerbread type
more admin stuff
important email needs a paper MrNG is supposed to give me before tonight
more lunchbox cooking in the afternoon
relax and read, stitching project ?
also prepare list for next week
dinner
bed early

[trissie]

Frenchie, both DH and I are guilty as charged when it comes to geekdom, so... plus with DS being neurodivergent - we want to introduce him into the geek community early on. It is and always has been an oasis of people who do not normally fit it, and it has a much higher than standard ratio of neurodivergent people.

TaDas
- midday routine
- finalize photo selection
- go buy the Christmas tree
- batch of vanilla rolls cooling before baking

ToDos
- afternoon routine
- set up kids with gingerbread cookie decorating
- bake my batch of gingerbreads

Braindump
routines
- evening routine
food
- dinner
- bake something sweet
- freezer cooking
- feed breadstarter
organization
- update land contract
- house insurance status?
- rework contract with DS14's therapist
- homework and backpacks
- DBD's speech therapy
- 15 on filing
cleaning
- spiff up twins' room
- spiff up DBD's room
- spiff up DS13's room
- spiff up master bedroom
- spiff up master bathroom
- spiff up kitchen
- spiff up living room
- spiff up office
- spiff up downstairs bathroom and hallways
laundry
- load of cleaning rags
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading
Christmas preps
- assemble walnut cookies
- bake 3rd batch of gingerbread cookies, including a nativity
- gingerbread cookie decorating
- bake 2nd batch of vanilla rolls
- something with the 4 egg whites in the fridge? - now there's 10 of them and that's after I made an omelette!
- 15 on wrapping session
- decorate with DBD
House&Holidays - I kinda really should do something about it
- week 1 deep cleaning - office
- week 3 deep cleaning - DBD's room
- week 6 deep cleaning - twins' room
- week 7 deep cleaning - master bathroom
- week 9 deep cleaning - living bathroom
- week 10 deep cleaning - kitchen
- week 11 deep cleaning - pantry
- week 13 deep cleaning - storage spaces
- week 14 deep cleaning - public spaces
- week 3 Christmas tasks
- week 4 Christmas tasks
- week 5 Christmas tasks
- week 6 Christmas tasks
- week 7 Christmas tasks
- week 8 Christmas tasks
- week 9 Christmas tasks
- week 10 Christmas tasks
- week 11 Christmas tasks
- week 12 Christmas tasks
- week 13 Christmas tasks
- week 14 Christmas tasks
- week 15 Christmas tasks