some of you dropped off kiddos at school & met friends for coffee...
some of you *held your breath* like me...& then had a double coffee...
i popped into our lovely little post office this morning on my way home from school drop-off...
calm & smug in the delight that all my kids were at school happily & that the morning had gone *smoothly*, homework remembered, *school-photo-day-hair-styles* done & lunches packed...
& then it all changed....
as an *after thought* i asked the christmas postage dates for mailing abroad...
postage to australia FOR CHRISTMAS closes october 1st!!
err....that's 8 days away!
if you are anything like me...i DO NOT like to pay airmail at christmas when, if organised, i can get away with one hundredth of the postal costs & send everything seamail....
there is nothing worse than paying more for postage than the gifts themselves...
i'd rather buy twice as many gifts!
creating all the gifts i had *cut-out* & promptly ignored!!
i love christmas...i really do...
i'm the one with the carols on rotation from mid-november...
the one making the cards late at night months before with a glass of wine & the first mince pies that the bakery puts on it's shelves...
so i now find myself, without pies, but with wine finishing, wrapping & bowing everything i've made...
& everything i've pulled out of my *ready-for-christmas-months-in-advance* present box...
thank you my oh soo clever & organised mother for instilling this trait in me well before i left home...
today i sooo love you for it!
so...tomorrow i am finishing up...
...shopping with my british bestie for all the lovely last *bits*...
...& i'll be the one having a mince pie & mulled wine come december 1...
...calm & just a little bit smug...
...ahhhh...
