It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

 Hubby, daughter and I got up at nine in the morning, even though none of us had watched the game to the end. But as long as we were up we had a great time with chilli-cheese and mozzarella nuggets, chips and dips and mulled wine, which came in handy- at one in the morning only the wood burner provided warmth, heating was off during night. Since I had been the only one who had had no nap until the start (continued reading the Rickman diaries, almost finished now) I was the first to go, just before half time. One more view of the rabid carrot, and I might have exploded! Daughter and husband followed suit, since it was relatively clear who´d be the winner of the game. Daughter tested the fried egg moulds hubby had bought at Amazon by making pancakes with caramellised bananas and fried bacon- my favourite breakfast! The only problem was that I still couldn´t savour the tiniest bit of what I ate- absolutely unfair, because we have this breakfast maybe once a year, at best! Daughter promised to do a repeat, so this part of the day belonged to best times!
After showering times got worse- we did some Lego building, and, of course, it was daughter mine who found that there was something wrong with Hogwarts- she carefully unbuilt parts of the caste, only to find another building mistake, so had to unbuild even more. When I did the same a few days ago I accidentally destroyed the Great Hall. Daughter worked for half an hour, I was sent off to drink some coffee, and hubby never was allowed to enter the building site- stems from a family who most likely would have built all sorts of leaning towers. After half an hour daughter had managed to rebuild what had been wrong. I seriously hope there won´t be more mistakes!
But the worst of times was yet to come- DiL 2 called, which always means trouble. We will get the boys on Valentine´s Day. Not a big problem? No, it is not. The big problem will come upon us from March 4th to March 8th, when DiL will park her sons at our abode, because she has to attend an exhibition in Vienna, and her husband has to work late- concert season will be in full swing then! Oh dear, I might not survive the chaos in our house! Five days, four overnight stays, out of the bed early because the boys have to get brought to kindergarten and and and...
To make the day bright again I went to Amazon homepage and ordered some books which are to arrive at the end of the week. About time that I reread some Dickens- I only wonder where all my ´classical´ books have gone to. And sister mine who called me from Berlin promised to have a look at her book collection...