Christmas Cleanup

Here we are, the day before Christmas, and the house is a hive of activity. Both inside and out we've been super busy.

Having Sean home for a few days has been awesome. He's helped with all sorts of small and niggling jobs which combine to make life that much easier and more pleasant. An example of one is Robie - my robotic vacuum cleaner.

Quite some months back, Robie stopped working. He would balefully bleat something (in Korean) and then turn himself off. I was not pleased. Robie, while not brilliant with corners and going around chair legs, was awesome at lowering the general 'furriness' of the house. With him giving up the ghost, keeping the floors fur-free was much much harder.

Eventually I thought perhaps he could be saved, so I sent a recording of his statements off to a girlfriend for her (Korean born) husband to interpret. As well as telling us he was "Pleased to service us through cleaning" (?!) Robie was also telling us there was a problem with his RPM. A bit of online research, and Sean pulling Robie apart to get to the source of the distress, and voila. Robie is back on board. I must admit that's my Christmas present there. Clean floors with 0 effort from me? Yeah - I'll take that.

 

A happy Robie means a happy me

Have also been filing, sorting, polishing, gardening and have built a gingerbread house. The kids took an hour to make it - and about 20 minutes later started to eat it!

It's been a such precious joyous year - Oscar has done amazingly well at school (finished the year at the gifted and talented festival for prep students on the recommendation of his school) and has made lots of new friends while keeping his old ones. Adelaide is off to 4-year-old kinder next year and she is so so ready. Work is getting busier and busier for me, which is both good and bad. Have made some just lovely friends this year with some of the school Mums, too. And Sean is busier than ever at work as well. Looking forward to a few quiet days at home over Christmas!