I dressed up as an Elephant!

Hello dear friends, I hope you are all well. I am typing this as I am cooking dinner which is very unusual. Today there was no choir, they had a week off following last weeks concert so therefore I was home early. I have tidied up and got dinner ready and I am typing this before we eat it and jead off to Guides.

It is pouring with rain outside but we were very lucky as it has been sports day and it held off all day.

I normally help with sports day but today I decided to watch the children (big mistake! Ha ha), they were all the same team so I happily cheered them on or jeered at them, only my daughter whose javelin landed next to her feet, it was hilarious!

Any how, then a never before event occurred, it was mum and dads go on the final event, our final event was dress up and run, there had to be three parents per six child team and I had three in one team... Noooooo! So I had to dress up as an elephant and run, for goodness sake, ironic, make the skinny girl dress up as an elephant! Not little Miss Lard Arse!

Of course the kids found it hilarious and not just mine. Its a good job I can take a joke.

Well little Miss Lard Ares is off to bed now and No, not dressed as an elephant before you ask...

Take care, sleep tight

Wow Busy Weekend Ahoy!

 

 

Hello, I hope you are all well. It has been busy around here with a birthday, girlie sleepovers and visits from several family members.

 

It started Friday when I wrapped up all my baby girls presents and started to get all the washing done, it then carried on to Saturday when I had to get up early to take my thirteen year old to a paintball party. 

 

After dropping him off I popped to one of the supermarkets that I don't normally go to as they had  crisps, garlic bread, dough balls and drinks on offer. I then went home and started to tidy the house when my mum arrived with presents and a mountain of cupcakes. We had lunch together and discussed how shocked we were that England had actually voted out of Europe.

 

Mum left and Ben took our daughter and eight year old son to pick up their brother, my seven year old and I finished tidying up and ran back to the shops to get a birthday cake and pizza for the sleepover.

 

We just got back and hid everything before they returned. About an hour later the first knock on the door came and my daughter who knew nothing about what I had organised stood staring a one of her best friends vaguely and said "Hello, why are you here". When her friend told her she got all excited and started to jump up and down. Then her other friends arrived, it was a busy evening of girls laughing, singing and dancing on the patio in the rain, watching movies, eating chocolate and crisps.

At bedtime they chatted and chatted and chatted and laughed and in the end my daughter and one of her friends said they needed to sleep so I separated them from the rest of the group and they fell asleep straight away. The rest of the group carried on chatting. And think I got four hours sleep...

 

The following morning my daughter opened her presents, watched movies with her friends and when they left my brother and sister in law arrived. We had birthday cake and then went to the park, played games and just spent time together.

 

It was a very full weekend and we went off to work/school this morning feeling rather worn out but it was worth it to see the beaming smiles and my daughters words "Thanks mum I'm so happy, your the best mum ever". Well deserved for the best daughter ever!

Take care and sleep tight xx

 



Quick Post

Well the day has come when the UK makes a decision on whether we remain or leave Europe. Everyone has their own opinion of what they believe to be the right decision. I personally have made my decision, a choice that I made a long time ago and could not be changed by all the scaremongering that has taken place over the last few months. 

Tonight I placed my big cross in pen, as there has been rumours of the pencils provided being rubbed out, I do not believe that there will be a dramatic change in the next ten or so years maybe even in my lifetime but I am hoping the change that is desperately needed in the UK will come in my children lifetime so that their futures will be brighter.

Enough of politics! Last nights concert was wonderful, the children sang their little hearts out and were a complete pleasure to listen to.

One particular song struck a chord with me it is called I hope you dance by Lee Ann Womack and as I listened to the words and watched my daughter singing them it made me think that I never want her to lose her sense of wonder,  and when she gets the chance to sit out or dance, I want her to dance!

As most of you know it is her birthday on Sunday and I thought I would type up the lyrics and put it in a frame to go up in her bedroom so she always knows what I want for her.

 

 

Well I am off to bed now and when I wake up in the morning we will know a little more where we stand and what sort of future is ahead of us. Fingers crossed

 

Night and take care xx

Bargains on the fruit and veg front

Hello, I hope you have had a lovely Tuesday.

I worked half the day today and then popped home for an hour to clean my house. I put a chicken curry in the slow cooker this morning so dinner was a very easy affair.

Once I had picked the children up from school I sat and sharpened all our coloured pencils and threw out any pens that weren't working while my daughter did her homework.

I took my daughter to Guides this evening and had a chat with one of her friends mums as I have arranged for her to have a surprise sleepover party on Saturday night. She has six of her best friends coming and I am going to do them pizza for tea, give them the playroom to watch movies and put snacks of crisps and chocolate in there. One of her friends has just had a brace fitted so she can't have popcorn or Chewy sweets.

On the way back from Guides we popped into the shop as it was late and that's when the yellow stickers come out, we bought:-

• 2 punnets of raspberries 10p each
• 2 punnets of nectarines 10p each
• 1 punnets of doughnut peaches 10p
• 2 bags of new potatoes 10p each
• 1 cucumber 8p

Yay, for cheap bargains, but I did miss out on a 10p birthday cake. A man picked it up and announced to us that he would eat it for his tea! Well that's just plain greedy!

When we got home my eight year old informed me he had a headache and promptly threw up all over the bathroom floor. Yay the joys of being a mum! His migraines are becoming more regular but it seems to be linked to his stress levels going up. He is becoming increasingly concerned about what class he will be in next year and who his teacher will be.

Well I'm not sure if I will be here tomorrow as my daughters choir has a concert at the civic centre and luckily I was asked if I would like to be with the children, so I haven't had to buy a ticket.

Have a lovely evening and take care xx

Monday Mayhem!

Its raining, its pouring and its getting very boring!

Hello dear friends,

Oh my goodness did you wake up to a complete downpour this morning. We left for school with coats and umbrellas. Half way to school a gust of wind turned my umbrella inside out and snapped it. I have to admit this turned me into a five year old and I stood there stamping my feet! My youngest son pointed out quite truthfully "Mummy, you tell us not to act spoilt and stamp our feet". Rightly so my dear boy but I was not acting spoilt I was acting frustrated, severely frustrated and being permanently WET!

Anyway, after lunch it decided to disappear thankfully and we walked home in our thick winter coats, still wet but this time from sweat. It was boiling honestly what is going on with our weather. And please no-one point out global warming because yes I know!

Well back to the more fun things, I popped into town to pick up my daughters birthday dresses that I ordered weeks ago and hadn't got round to picking up and popped into Paperchase as they had a sale and I got her a lunch box for next year which was £4.00, a couple of pens reduced to £1.00 each.

For dinner today we had :-

Garlic and Herb Chicken £5.00
Roasted New Potatoes £1.00
Buttery Corn on the Cob £2.00
Roasted Vine Tomatoes £1.00 (lots left over) Total £9.00

This evening I had to do some shopping as our cupboards and freezer were bare.

I have decided to put a chicken curry in the slow cooker tomorrow as my daughter has guides.  So I bought twelve chicken breast for £10.00, I also bought an additional two chicken breasts reduced to 40p and I have put four of them in the freezer.

I bought two packs of naan bread at £1.00 each and we have plenty of rice in the cupboard.

Other items I bought are:-

• Ritz crackers £1.00
• Tuc crackers 50p
• Garlic crackers 95p
• Krave Cereal £2.00
• Milk 89p
• 48 Sausages reduced to 80p (in the freezer for two meals one this week one next week)
• Three tubs of ice cream reduced to £1.50 each
• Diet coke £1.00
• Vimto reduced to 89p
• Two bottle of juice £1.00 each
• Two six packs crisps £1.00 each

I also bought my daughters birthday cards from us and her brothers.

Well that's about it from me for one night.

Take care xx

Fathers day

Hello friends, I hope you are having a lovely day with your families.

I woke up this morning to the screeching tones of daughter and eight year old son arguing over who was going to carry the crumpets up to daddy. Eight year old son won as he announced that he had made them and burnt his finger in the process. (Whatever happened to wait for mummy to get up?)

So I was up at the crack of dawn and after daddy attempted the seriously anaemic crumpets he went back to sleep! We had a chilled out morning waiting for our thirteen year old to get back from his expedition. I went off to pick him up at 2pm and chatted to one of the other mums until they arrived, peering sleepily out of the windows desperate to see if their mums and dads were waiting for them.

He got in the car and announced that he was starved and needed food! Good job I had food ready and waiting for the poor worn out boy.

After dropping him home, I went off on my own to see my dad. Mum went in to make us coffee and dad and I chatted about his recent results. He was much more positive than I expected him to be and told me he is not intending on giving up yet. That's the best fathers day present a daughter could wish to hear.

I spent a lovely couple of hours chatting to my parents, drinking coffee and eating pastries and it turned out to be a very nice day.

I hope you have had a nice day too

Take care xx

All about the kids!

Good evening, I hope you have had a lovely Saturday and all is good in your world.

Things here have taken a turn for the worse, I can't go into details as some of my family are not currently aware of what is happening but as many of you who are regular readers will know my darling dad is very poorly and needless to say things are not looking good.

If I'm honest I'm finding it very hard to get the motivation to write anything, luckily the children were very busy; I have one at work; one on an expedition all weekend; one that was helping out at a summer fête; one at a very cool birthday party and finally one little man that spent the whole afternoon with me. Them being so busy has picked me up a bit, it forces me to just get on with things and not sit feeling sorry for myself.

Realistically I shouldn't be feeling sorry for myself its not me being forced to go through the pain, its my own selfishness that I might lose someone I dearly love that makes me feel like this but what I really want is for him to not suffer.

I have spent most of the day running the children around and that's fine, I'm quite happy to do that.

I have spent a fair amount of money today as I bought a present for my youngest sons friend, whilst we were buying this I also bought presents for the boys to give to their sister next week for her birthday.

They bought a present for fathers day for Ben but rather than several gifts this year we have just bought one, which I hope he'll like!

I haven't got much for my dad, he has told my mum he doesn't want much, there are no actual gifts that he would like and he is not eating much again so I have bought him a chocolate bar in the hopes that he has a piece when he fancies it and he smokes, so I am going to get him some cigarettes (its not like it can make things worse and at least he will enjoy them).

I have arranged to have a surprise sleepover for my daughters birthday next weekend. We are not in a position to pay out for expensive parties and she has never had friends over for a sleepover before so hopefully this will surprise her and make her happy and feel special.

I hope you have a good Sunday and take care xx