Things I have learned

Here are some things I have learned over the last few days:

• Do not try to whip single cream. It will not form "soft peaks" even after 25 minutes of whipping. You need whipping cream or double cream.
  
• If the recipe says that it makes 48 peanut butter cups it will. Do not try to use large muffin trays with small muffin cases - they deform - the cases not the trays. (I only have two 12 hole mini muffin trays, hence the large ones)
  
• Hide the peanut butter cups from Mr Yoastie and my parents otherwise you will not get any.
  
• The cat can not pass his bowl over to you even if you insist. Unfortunately the three year old daughter has not learned this. Neither has the cat learned to stop meowing at the three year old with the cat food and rubbing up against her.
  
• Father Christmas uses the same wrapping paper as us. This has made number two child very suspicious. Not even her big sister explaining that Father Christmas must have bought it at the same shop convinced her.
• Do not trust Woolworths to get the ordered present to you by Christmas. It still hasn't arrived.

Christmas Princess

The girls got Christmas / Princess dresses today.

The following was overheard.

"Pim Pom went the doorbell. Who could that be? wondered Princess CS as she went to answer the door. It was the Prince.! He had come to marry her!"

Presents

CS: "Mummy, Daddy and I bought you a present. It's a secret. It is to go on your bracelet and it has green dots."

Mrs Y.:"Well sweetie, if it is a secret you had better not tell me."

CS: "CE got you a pink one."

CE: "Can you help us wrap them? you mustn't look though. Promise?"

I promised not to look. So the wrapping paper may not be straight. Hope I won't mind.

The presents have been wrapped and hidden in Daddy's office drawer. A place so incredibly out of bounds even Mummy won't dare to look there.

Work Christmas Party

It is Mr Yoastie's work Christmas party. Mrs Yoastie dislikes office Christmas parties. I will probably have nothing in common with anyone. I can't decide on an outfit and Mr Yoastie says I can't go as Goth-girl. Apparently I am now a responsible mother of two and need to dress accordingly. Hmph.

Netherlands

We have been away to NL and now I am tired. REALLY tired. We had to visit everybody and their dog.

I also believe that for every day you are away it takes about a week to get the children back to normal. So it should only take about 10 weeks then :-). They currently believe that "Chocomel" can be had on tap, someone will call out "oh, look aren't they cute" every time they do the smallest thing and if they decide not to like dinner someone will make them something more to their liking. Oh and bedtime is optional. I guess their Grandparents don't see them a lot and also they are the only grandchildren, so it is only to be expected.

More of our Dutch adventures later but now I am going to find my very own bed.