I got up at 5am this morning, got myself ready for the day and then woke my 3 sons at 6am. I helped them get washed and dressed, gave them breakfast then we all left the house just after 7am. It was still dark, 2 degrees and the moon was still shining brightly in the sky. We walked 5 mins or so to the bus stop and waited for 20 mins for the bus (we were all cold but all 3 of my boys were wrapped up warm with wooly hats, gloves, winter coats, hoods and a blanket for my youngest in his pushchair) We then rode the bus for around 15 mins and got off before a short walk to our destination... Aldi! We then stood and queued for 40 mins in the seriously cold weather. Again we were all cold but my children at least were dressed for the weather. At 8am we entered Aldi and I managed to get my children a soft toy each from the Aldi Christmas advert plus the story book A Christmas Carrot - based on my favourite story ever... A Christmas Carol. We then walked the 15 min journey to school arriving 15 mins before the gate opened. To keep our minds off the freezing cold we played eye spy. Once the gates opened my eldest raced to the front of his line, later telling me how he wants to get to school super early every day. My middle son was upset we couldn't get the bus to school from the shops. I then walked a further 10 mins to drop my youngest to my parents so that I could go to work. Then I walked home had a quick hot drink then walked to work to do my days work in a secondary school. Once done I got home for 20 mins then back on the school run to pick my boys up. Back home again and it's an early T as my eldest has ballet. My husband takes him whilst I stay home with our younger two. I get those two ready for bed on my own just in time for my eldest to get back and tell us about his ballet class. Once he's ready for bed I read them all a story from the new book we bought from Aldi this morning... A Christmas Carrot. And then it's bed time but none of them will go to sleep as they are all excited about our adventures today. Finally I sneak out of their shared bedroom around 8.30pm. It's been a long day for all of us but at least none of us wore a jumper saying "ALDI" across the front