how did ur's go?

Hello Ladies and babies,

Well how did ur xmas go? mine was slightly eventful (long story)

Well xmas eve we woke up and had no running water (we live in the country side and have our own pump and well) we were heading into town 4 the day anyway so we said ah well it will defroast by the time we get home, HOW WRONG WERE WE.

Went to my mums house and made up nicole's bottle's to last us until that night and left them in the fridge as we had 2 go collect our turkey and do some shopping (my mum,dad and his mum and brother were coming out to our house 4 xmas dinner) before going to his daddies mass at 6. after mass went to his mums house to spend a bit of time with her before nicky's last bottle (she was due at 9) left there at 7.45pm and went to my mums to collect turkey and shopping that we left there, and FORGOT the bottle. Mum rang us when we were nearly home (keep in mind that the road was SOOOOOOOO SLIPPY and DANGEROUS) and told us, we said its ok we will make one when we home.
Arrived home at 9pm and the water was still not running i had no water to make up her bottles for her feed that she was due right that moment luckly hubbie said there is water in the hot tap as it is coming from the water tank up stairs )
she was awake by now sitting in her bouncer looking up at me chatting so i washed her bottles put them into the sterliser and turned it on, and nothing happened it refused to work, at this stage i started crying as she was starting to get hungry, we then relised it had to be de scaled:roll: so had to run the sterliser 3 times (1 to descale and 2 to clean it) anyway it worked and i eventully made up her bottle and started feeding her @ 10.15pm (bad mummy)
All this time hubbie was outside trying to block up the pump house (we were in the middle off building it and it had no door on it) and had to 2 gas heaters an electric heater inside trying to defroast the pipes)
2 cut the story a bit shorter at 2.30am in the morning there was still one pipe frozen and we were both outside freezing trying to figure out what to do and i said to hubbie wish i brought out the hot water bottle top keep our hands warm DUH we both looked at each other and i ran in filled it up and put it on the last pipe and within 20mins it was un frozen :roll: :roll: :roll: so we wasted 2 hours trying to unfreeze it while it would have only taken 20 mins :x :x
the next morning we were up early @7am preparing stuff and nicole stayed asleep until 9.15am (we were raging as we couldn't wait to bring her down stairs and let her open presents) when she finised her bottle and was dressed we brought her down stairs and she didn't know where to look ) ) we had a great time opening her presents with her and seeing her eyes widening with each one, i now relise why the say xmas is made by having children.

it turnrd out that his mum and brother didn't come to dinner as he said the roads were to dangerous to travel on :roll: :roll:

Nicole amazes me each and every day and we our so grateful to have her.

for does who have managed to read all this crap thanks and am sooooooo sorry it turned into an essay ops: ops: ops:

best wishes to ye all

cha&nicolexxxx