A xmas miracle!

Both kids are asleep before 9 pm!

Getting ready for this evening.

H/t to @jthingelstad for the Irish Cream suggestion.

A small mahogany table holds a bottle of Five Farms Irish Cream Liqueur, a mince pie on a saucer and a carrot and a parsnip on another saucer, in front of a toy oven and a dark red cupboard adorned with stickers.

All set!

Selfie of big kid, little kid, Dad and Sonic the Hedgehog 3

Leftover slice of pizza and blackberry and apple crumble for brunch.

Tomorrow’s veggies almost all done.

✅ Roasted carrots and parsnips.

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✅ Mashed potatoes.

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✅ Roasted potatoes.

A rectangular beige ceramic baking dish on a black stove top filled with roasting whole potatoes garnished with herbs de provence

Plan for tomorrow:

🥕 Prepare and cook veggies for xmas lunch
🍿 Watch Sonic 3 with kids at cinema
🛏️ Get kids off to bed and sleep early (haha)
🎅 Get my Santa outfit on and deliver presents (which this year are already wrapped)

Quite the confession.

Gabriel said the agency duped Hezbollah into buying the pagers, making advertising films and brochures, and sharing them on the internet.

“When they are buying from us, they have zero clue that they are buying from the Mossad,” he said. “We make like [movie] Truman Show, everything is controlled by us behind the scene.”

Little kid sleeps in his own bed for about three or four hours before waking up crying and climbing into ours.

At least he now just goes straight back to sleep instead of wanting to be awake and playing for two hours.

The last three nights I’ve gone to bed very late and missed all the drama. I’ve slept so much better as a result.

Unfortunately, getting up at 8:30 in the morning isn’t sustainable when the kids go back to school.

Big kid has been enjoying CrossFit exercises at school and at home.

Big kid: “Hey Google! What’s an air squat?”

Google: “An escort is a call girl or a prostitute….”

Me: “Hey Google! STOP!!!”

After numerous attempts at therapising my toaster (“WTF is wrong with you, you stupid machine!") I realised that it was too depressed to talk.

I put myself in the toaster’s shoes and realised it was burnt out. It was full of crumbs (golden memories of bagels, crumpets, muffins and waffles past). Attempted arson was simply its way of communicating that it couldn’t take any more.

I unreservedly apologise to my toaster for this gross defamation.

Toast in the Machine davidmarsden.info

United losing 3-0 at home to Bournemouth with an hour gone.

Bring back baldie!