Boys Brigade

Ah, enough to make any Mamma proud....

...and not just my newly found skill in learning to tie a tie (a first for me!)

Josh came home beaming tonight that one of the other boys had handed down his boys brigade uniform. Joshua has been so keen to get a uniform, but having joined late in the year was trying patiently to wait until 2009. He has been dying to try it on and asked if he could wear it Christmas day :)

Ah what a handsome, smoochable chap I have ...

so glad he is not marching off to war...

sniff, sniff... out with the tissues!

Cookies with cousins

We joined with cousins today to do some Christmas baking. It was chocolate cookies (sorry, no recipe - made it up as I went...but just a basic roll out chocolate biscuit dough with added melted chocolate just to give it a real chocolaty flavour) studded with mini m&m's and shortbread shapes with cherry noses (and some plain ones later to have one end dipped in chocolate)

It was hands going everywhere - some even into mouths... (if you look closely at this shot)

I think the cousins seemed to enjoy it going by the noise level, the laughing and the funny comments that were coming from the peanut gallery!