So what have you left to do?

[Mamafy]

Now I've sat down I think my legs are dying I must have walked miles today, my brother kept abandoning me and made me walk from shop to shop But at least I didn't have to park anywhere

 

[ToffeePop]

Done middle guest room.

Back guest room to go (but if the dogs hadn't jumped and slobbered all over my clean white duvet cover, it'd be done by now...b....trds did that on purpose )

ANd then the rest of the house...stupid fairy lights on the xmas tree have just blown (TEEEEERIFIC!) so have had to sort that too.

Husband thing is keeping out of my way unless instructed otherwise. He just doesn't clena like I do (and he's just said to that "tell them how much cleaning and tidying you seem to manage from sitting in front of your pute..." CHEEKY GIT! )

 

[evie_smith]

sounds like my hubby although tbh i have a stack full of dishes to do in the kitchen soooo DH prob not being so cheeky lol but then again - whats wrong with him doing them lol! x x x

 

[Mamafy]

Toffeepop is that progress I hear?

 

[ToffeePop]

Progress? Maybe. Guest room actually looks rather presentable , if I do say so myself. I'll congratulate myself with a half-hour sit-down! (Only kidding, I do have a lot to do!)

 

[Rowesb]

well done ladies
AFM cake iced (I had a moment and made far too much icing cos I forgot I wanted 1lb not 1kg of icing sugar... I cannot pysically put any more on it )

just the cleaning to do tomorrow

 

[evie_smith]

mmmmm all that left over icing mmmmmmm

 

[Mamafy]

Have oven prided my oven

3 more loads of washing done


Tomorrows list:

Clean the house...again
coo over the 2 puppies that my oh has bought the girls
Make mince pies
Cook the roast beef, gammon and turkey
Make the stuffing
Make the trifle
Prepare the veg

Plan to be finished the most of it by early evening but it will depend how long it takes my hubby to come out of town, he has a tendency on xmas eve to have a little shopping spree. He buys the kids a pressie and they get it tomorrow evening

Teeny bit of excitement waved over me then and no dread at all

 

[Rowesb]

OMG I'm so glad I did my food shop yesterday... am close to being snowed in (almost!) ,

ok, need ideas on what to do with left over icing the I cannot have???

 

[ToffeePop]

Left over icing - if it's fondant icing (which I'm assuming it is) then you can roll it into little balls and make microwave meringues! Handy for crunching up over ice-cream or throwing together a pavlova if you make them big enough...

Just roll the icing into about the size of a golf ball (or smaller as that's actually quite big) put it on greaseproof paper and then whack it on the highest setting in your microwave for about 15 seconds.

You may have to adjust the above for your microwave, but you'll get light and airy meringues, not chewy ones, which are perfect for a quick pavlova (and you'll be able to eat the icing, then, as the eggs are cooked )

 

[Mamafy]

Fairy cakes Rowesb and using the icing for on top?

Glad to see it's all coming together for everyone

Thinking of you today toffeepop, hope you get all sorted and join us tonight while you're blotto

I have my gammon in my lovely slow cooker having some coffee to wake up then its time to get started on my list

 

[Mamafy]

Oh meant to say Oh has left to do his jobs, collect the turkey, deliver pressies and buy the kids something so it's all good

 

[ToffeePop]

I'm just cramming some much-needed caffeine into my system (cannot function without at least half the filter pot...) Hubby's off to find a grate for our newly swept fireplace in the front room so we can have the fire burning tonight and onwards through Crimbo, and then a few bits of tidying and then that sodding laundry...

Can't wait to start cooking.


(Hubby's present is a doozy to find...oops!)

 

[Mamafy]

I love your procrastination toffepop

 

[ToffeePop]

I always get there in the end..and I find waking up traumatic at the best of times

 

[Rowesb]

Left over icing - if it's fondant icing (which I'm assuming it is) then you can roll it into little balls and make microwave meringues! Handy for crunching up over ice-cream or throwing together a pavlova if you make them big enough...

Just roll the icing into about the size of a golf ball (or smaller as that's actually quite big) put it on greaseproof paper and then whack it on the highest setting in your microwave for about 15 seconds.

You may have to adjust the above for your microwave, but you'll get light and airy meringues, not chewy ones, which are perfect for a quick pavlova (and you'll be able to eat the icing, then, as the eggs are cooked )

I like

 

[mrsH2009]

've somehow got to get to work in all this snow and keep praying I can get home again tonight , I've put a shovel in the car boot I will spend my boys first Xmas at home

 

[Rowesb]

take care MrsH

 

[Mamafy]

Take care mrs h

 

[evie_smith]

I have to . . .
empty the bins
do all the dishes hubby left b4 work
hoover all through
sort out baby moses basket clothes ect for my friend kirsty as im going boxing day and not spending christmas day busy! lol
bath kids
bath me lol
mop through
go friends
sort all present under the tree when the kids are in bed hehehe!!!!
sort their stockings and try to place them on their beds without waking them up lol!!!!
Part cook turkey x