Standing in the kitchen Kate sighed pulling out a tray of cupcakes from the oven. Grace had wanted to bake them. It was only a box mix she picked up from Coles but she had soon gotten bored and skipped off in to the living room to watch Frozen. she was on her own as Mike had to go in to NAVCOM for a few meetings that were last minute. It wasn't ideal but there was nothing more that could be done about it.
Carefully she put them on the cooling rack checking the time on the microwave. It was just after 1 in the afternoon. Walking in to the living room she stood behind the Sofa, Grace too absorbed in the TV to notice. Picking up the remote Kate turned the TV off.
"mum!" she cried turning around
"Gracie you have Frozen on DVD so you can watch it any time. Now your cakes are done and cooling"
"yay can we ice them now!" Grace asked
"not yet they are still too hot. You can do them later. Now if you want to stay up till the new year then go up and have a little nap" Kate folded her arms
"i am not a baby like Chris and I am not sleepy" she yawned slightly
"no I know that but if you want to see the new year in then you need to go and have a sleep now otherwise you won't be able to stay awake till midnight" Kate said "even I am going to have a lie down"
"yeah but you are old" Grace grinned nervously knowing as soon as she said what she did she was for it
"oi cheeky" Kate grinned "go on please"
She watched as Grace slowly walked up the stairs. Walking over to Chris who was curled up in the cat bed.
"come on you" she smiled lifting him up In to her arms. He buried his face in to her shoulder. he was over tired as she had delayed putting him down for his nap so he would sleep a little longer or that was the plan, it never normally worked out like that.
Placing Chris in his bed she kissed the top of his head and put on his star lamp he had been given for Christmas. Pulling the door too she walked across the landing. Nicole was already upstairs as she didn't really want to watch frozen.
"you okay sweet?" Kate asked poking her head round Nicole's door.
"yeah" Nicole smiled
"you going to have a nap before new year's?" Kate asked
"yeah" she smiled sliding under her covers. Thankfully with the kid's rooms being on the back of the house it was slightly less bright at this time of the day and they all had black out blinds.
"have a nice sleep" Kate smiled pulling the door closed to.
She checked on Grace who was right down under her covers and 'snoring' or at least pretending to be asleep. Pulling the door too Kate sighed hopefully she would sleep.
Heading in to her room she pulled back all the covers off the bed she would just sleep on top it was too warm at the moment to sleep under anything. Drawing the blind and curtains she climbed in to the bed. Closing her eyes, she fell asleep fairly quickly.
Hearing the door close Kate woke with a start. Sitting up she smiled seeing Mike walk in to the room.
"hey" she smiled
"what you doing up in bed? You okay?" he asked as it was unusual to see Kate sleeping in the middle of the day
"i am fine. I just thought I would have a nap so I can see this year out"
"sound like a plan I am knackered. I may have 40 winks myself" Mike smiled
"well, I will leave you to it" She smiled sliding from the covers.
Walking along the hall to get Chris up, as if he slept too long then he would be up all night. walking past Grace's room, she could see Grace was up already and drawing at the little table in her room. She could tell that Grace hadn't actually had a sleep. But only time would tell. And she would more than likely fall asleep before midnight or fight it and become very mardy and grumpy.
"Gracie do you want to ice your cakes now" Kate smiled
"yay" Grace cheered jumping up from the table
"Gracie wait for me please. We need proper icing not icing soup like last time" Kate called walking in to Chris's, he was awake and sat on the floor playing with his dinosaurs
"hey monkey you going to come down and ice some cakes" she smiled
"yeah" he said dropping his toys running towards the door.
"come on then" Kate smiled watching as he ran to the stairs sitting down scooting down on his bum
Walking behind him she walked in to the kitchen to see Grace had tipped the icing sugar in to a bowl and was just about to tip the water in.
"GRACIE!" Kate called walking up behind her pulling the jug and spoon from her hands. "i told you to wait. Go and sit on the sofa"
"but I want to ice my cakes" Grace said.
"Gracie!" Kate warned
Looking at her mum Grace flounced over to the sofa bouncing hard back on to it as she knew it annoyed her mum
Ignoring her Kate turned to Chris who was sat on the counter next to her. Mixing the icing up she smiled watching Chris as he spooned a huge mountain of the icing on to one of the cakes adding some sweets that came in the box.
"Grace" Kate looked over to the sofa where Grace was sat making line drawings with her finger on the sofa. "do you want to come and decorate a cake"
"yay" Grace bounced off the sofa racing in to the kitchen. "mum Chirs has done them all wrong" Grace said as she carefully smoothed on the icing on to the one remaining cake before neatly trying to add the sweets.
"they are fine grace just focus on your cake okay" Kate said although she was dreading trying Chirs's as even looking at them was giving her a sugar buzz headache
Sitting on the sofa Kate looked at the clock it was quarter to midnight and as she had predicted Chirs was asleep laying on her lap. And the girls both had their eyes held open by force not wanting to fall asleep.
"top up" Mike smiled walking in carrying a bottle of prosecco.
"go on then it will only go flat otherwise" she smiled
Topping up her glass he smiled sitting down next to her.
"so, 15 minuets to go" he smiled "any resolutions?" he asked
"not this year. No point really with what happened this past year."
"same. Lets just hope 2021 is better" Mike smiled
Turning their attentions to the TV the countdown had begun with a review if all the amazing people of 2020 and all the amazing work the health professionals and different volunteers had done. Helping deliver food parcels to the venerable, providing home school help, amongst other things.
"10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...HAPPY NEW YEAR!" Kate smiled leaning in kissing mike
"happy new year" he said back
Looking over both Girls had fallen asleep sat in the arm chair, grace resting on Nicole's shoulder, Nicole on Gracie's
Standing up Mike pulled the blanket off the back of the sofa carefully draping it over the pair of them. Lifting Chris up Kate slowly made her way up the stairs tucking Chris up in his little bed.
Climbing under the covers of their bed Kate rested her head on Mikes shoulder feeling his arm snake round her waist pulling her in to him.
"happy new year" she whispered
HAPPY NEW YEAR GUYS! so i know it is officially 2021 in most of Australia now hope 2021 is better then 2020 i know i said i would do a new years day chapter and i might i will see how i feel tomorrow. but i am working on a new fic coming soon x if you are yet to see 2020 out then please be safe and stay at home and see it and hopefully we can see Covid go away. huge love duck mad girl x
