On Wednesday afternoons I can be found in the library of Coleraine tech, surrounded by spotty youths, quietly banging my head against a keyboard. My brain hasn’t quite caught up with my return to studying yet and writing my personal learning record each week is a sloooow, painful process.
Anyway, that left JM in charge of todays’s advent activity. We’re starting to think now about ways we can bless our community and we’re beginning with what I thought would be gentle introduction.
The idea was to get the kids to each pick a couple of books and wee toys to donate to the monthly car boot sale, run for charity, at The Sandel Centre. Now in fairness, I had forgotten that I had done a fairly comprehensive clear out not that long ago, so I wasn’t giving them a lot to work with. Cabsey came up with nothing, despite a thorough search and Elijah wanted to give all his favourite toys away. So we have ended up with nothing! Not an auspicious start. I did, however, discover that I had never actually dropped all that other stuff off at a charity shop, so we’ll just have to say that we got a head start on this one.
I also buoyed up my spirits nicely with a little retail therapy. I had promised myself I would wait til the sales, but what’s a girl to do when the sales start early? I have a few xmas parties to go to and next-to-no excuse to be glam the rest of the year so I threw myself into trying on beautiful, sexy little numbers, (narrowly avoided purchasing a dress that amounted to an elongated boob-tube) and found a dress that made me sigh with pleasure and not cry at the till. Splendid.
Where did you find the dress?? I have been searching too, but being a more rounded size than you have been v frustrated, and spent tonight ordering from ASOS!