Twelfth-month target

If I can post 16 blogs in December, I'll have achieved my 'different number each month' challenge this year. I could aim for a higher number, but it would have to be at least 22 (all the other numbers are already taken by other months), and I'm not so confident of reaching that amount, what with all the Yuletide distractions and extra work to do.

Anyway - I shouldn't waste blog words discussing blog scenarios, that's a bit meta and a bit self-indulgent.
So... let's discuss my plans for the upcoming weeks. I want to watch a lot of Christmas films, and introduce Mathew to as many of the appropriate ones as possible. We'll get to have the joy of watching him and his classmates in the school Nativity. And I do mean 'joy' by the way, that's not me being sarcastic. Nothing is sweeter than young 'uns doing a play together, and nothing is more festive than hearing them sing something Christmassy. 'Away In A Manger' is traditional, but a bit whiney, and it also tends to make me rather emotional. My personal choice would be to have a class full of 6-year-olds singing Slade's "Merry Xmas Everybody" but I guess we'll go with whatever the teacher has decided to practice with them. One thing I do know is that the room will be clogged up with annoyingly loud younger siblings and a glut of mums filming the whole thing on their phones. But I'm not going to get started on all that, or this posting will be negative and moany, and I don't feel that way today. I feel excited, and hopeful, and full of the cheer of the season, so let's get back to the good stuff that's on the way in the next couple of weeks:

There's a nice candlelit Carol service locally on Sunday 15th. I quite fancy that. The pub that we occasionally frequent for a roast lunch has an acoustic duo on Christmas Eve afternoon. That might be nice. I also like to have a night-time wander around local towns, taking in the wonder of their lights displays.
Of course - I'm listing all these things, and the likelihood is that I'll end up doing none of them because I'll be too busy at work, and then too busy sorting things at home (Mathew is in Santa age so it all has to be done on the quiet) but I know for a fact that, however it all pans out, it will be wonderful, because it always is, because it's Christmas.

RC 2-12-24