role reversal

Tonight my children are coming to watch me in my Christmas Concert. Neither of them are in anything at school this year, so this seems an upside down situation that they're coming to see me but I won't be going to see them.
We've had a lovely slow start today after a very busy week. There's a couple of spare hours over the weekend when I probably ought to pay attention to impending rather than immediate stuff - I could write some Christmas cards, for example. I bought a whole lot of Greenbelt ones I'm pleased with, to then discover that I didn't write many last year so still have a big stash from then. Oh well.
I may just try to take it easy tho. Life has definitely felt like responding to the immediate all the time - a friend once described it as being swept down a river with just my nose above water. I'm proud to report that I sent a birthday package this week and didn't have to send it first class - I was actually a couple of days ahead of myself. I used to be more like that and it would be good to return to that way of being if I can, instead of feeling up against it all the time. I'm not naturally a last minute person. There's still 3 things I was supposed to do yesterday tho, so as long as they don't take too long, hopefully there'll be some downtime. I know this time of year can be frantic for lots of people. Hope you find some peace and tranquillity amongst the hurlyburly.

PS, one of the tasks is to find an acceptable photo of my kids together, so in trawling my recent pics have been happily reminded of memories from this year and came across this that reminds me I don't have to do ANYTHING with my spare two hours :)