This week my Word of the Week is: Ready! #WotW

This week my Word of the Week is:

I love this time of year, the time when I am just about ready for Christmas! It's crazy to think that this time in a couple of weeks it will all be over and we'll be heading into a new year! Last weekend Becky said 2 weeks today and it's Christmas Eve which filled me with dread, I didn't feel ready but now I am feeling more prepared after a busy week.

We went shopping on Sunday with my dad to our yearly trip to Iceland to get all of the freezer food. I got the turkey, beef, more stuffing and tons of party food and snacks. I love this shopping trip with my dad, he takes me to Aldi, Big Tesco, Farm Foods and the big Home Bargains too. It's always a good few hours.

Stu was told last week that everyone has to do 5 hours of overtime and after last year he was reluctant to work those extra hours on an evening as the bus service has been so bad in the run up to Christmas so he went into work on Monday on his day off and did the whole 5 hours in one morning. He was finished by 1pm and it meant that I could meet him in town and do a bit of shopping getting the last of the presents for friends and family.

Becky wrapped Ellie's Christmas presents on Tuesday, this is one of the upsides of the kids being older and not believing in the big man in red, they can help with the wrapping. Ellie and I wrapped Becky's presents yesterday while she was asleep for work. Becky has already asked to wrap everyone else's presents which she will be doing tomorrow. The crazy girl loves wrapping. I said to her I was the same when I was her age, when I only had a handful of presents to wrap. Then I had kids and the mountain of presents put me off. lol

There is of course the big Christmas food shop to do with the veg and fresh food but I have most of it already in the online shopping basket ready to be delivered. Everything else is bought. I have been buying a few things every week for the last couple of months so it doesn't seem too bad at this time of year.

Plans have been made for Christmas and I am loving the way that Christmas has fallen this year. Stu will be off work on Christmas Eve with it being a Sunday! I think the last time he was, apart from the year we went away for Christmas was before Ellie was born. She's 16 now. lol He also gets Boxing Day off work too and I think the 27th. He will be back at work a few days and then will have New Years Eve and Day off! Becky has struck gold with the shifts that she is working too. She finishes a night shift on Christmas Day morning so can open her presents with us and then sleep until we are ready to eat. She will also be off work on New Years Eve but does go back the night of New Years day which will be fine, she said she can sleep all day if she has a hangover and won't get told off.

It feels like this is the earliest I have ever been mostly ready for Christmas with everything done that can be done and plans for everything else.

How has your week been? I hope you have had a good one?