Happy Birthday Chris 🙂 Have a good one Mr. P, with lots of love from all the Pikeys – you’re beautiful, it’s true 🙂 xxx
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Every now and then I fall apart…
But thankfully I have an excellent crash team who swept in to pick up the pieces. One I am married to, two of you are reading this and know exactly who you are and the fourth is a five year old boy. So we’ll box all that up and put it firmly to one side …
Tempting….
I don’t want to change the world…
Lots of model Home Educating Mama behaviour going on here again today. Of course in my usual totally inconsistent parenting style I have also done stacks of ‘against all the rules’ type stuff too 🙁 First thing we did milk and breakfast and Backyardigans viewing. When I went to head upstairs to get dressed I …
The rest of the day…
Mainly cos I need to use up some of the words of the day which have been backing up as emails in my inbox 🙂 So we had our lunch (sausage rolls and mini chocolate eclairs – healthy or what?!) and then the children wanted to watch a home video from 2004 just before and …
Some Pictures…
First of all Scarlett allowed her weekly hairbrush to happen this morning 🙂 Also here are a couple of yesterday’s basket creation – including some modelled by Tarly for perspective (and skipping merrily through woods potential!) I’ve been food shopping this morning where I felt like a real grown up bumping into a friend I’ve …
Basket case…
I know, it’s lazy 😉 Had a nice day today, rushed around like crazy to arrive at Julie’s a mere five minutes later than arranged and left Ady and the children there. Not at all sure what they were up to and actually it’s quite refreshing not to be able to account for every moment …
Mr Goddard is back in the building
Ergo I will be offline for the rest of the evening 🙂
Just seen this…
and it was very interesting… ETA (;-)) and I did actually mean something other than my own blog! I meant this! 🙂
It’s alright Ady’s coming back…
Here at the Goddard residence we often substitute the word ‘Ady’ instead of ‘Baby’ in song lyrics. I know, we’re that wacky us 😉 Anyway, he’ll be home later and despite very lovely and welcome distractions at the beginning of the week we have missed him terribly. The children have both spoken to him on …
Does it seem to be much more than just a crazy circus show?
Feeling very in the swing of all that is good and fine about Home Education this week, which is probably just as well given the small part of me that is ‘just checking’ it’s all still working well for us in reaction to other friends choosing different lives again. It’s been funny to feel myself …
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Blew the budget
For these Tesco value chocolates last week. The brandy has been kicking around since Christmas but I couldn’t believe it when I saw a box of chocolates in the value range. I think I’ve only ever bought boxes of chocolates as presents but as strapped as I am I could still never buy someone these …
Playing catch up…
Seem to be doing that a lot these days… Monday We had a fairly low key morning. Ady left for the week before 6am and as I had been up IMing the night before and not gone to bed before midnight I got up to see him off and then snuck back to bed for …
Birthday monitor says
Happy Birthday Alison (Big) – hope you have a great day 🙂
Knew I’d find my way back here eventually!
Just took a little longer than I expected 😉 So a two day round-up then which will no doubt leave out loads of what I had planned to say but never mind. Yesterday we went into town for various things – Scarlett needed new shoes and I wanted to get something in the sales before …
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Best laid plans and all that…
I was supposed to have had a bath about 4 hours ago, then I was supposed to have enjoyed my dinner, then I was supposed to have sat and blogged – I even had it semi planned out in my head. But oh what an encumbrance the whole computer thing has become of late. The …
Just, y’know, stuff…
Blah day today really, the weather was grey, my mood was grey. All grey. The children did a fair amount of playing, as usual, first thing which predictably included watching disc 2 of C&CF and doing more Oompa Lumpa dancing. Tried to explain to Davies about there actually only being one actor playing Oompa Lumpas …
Sometimes I do despair…
I’ve gone to great endeavors to use the word of the day. I have made concentrated and cogitated and contemplated efforts to weave it into the daily musings that are a blog post from myself. But sometimes a word comes up which simply does not apply to me at all. It is not relevant, pertinent, …
Onwards and upwards…
I’d meant to come back here yesterday to boast that I had indeed done some thank you cards with the children so we could tick off reading and writing too but wine, a bubble bath, my turn to cook dinner and the last double bill episodes of series one of Lost all contrived to keep …
Facing it in a pugilistic fashion!
Been a rather good morning thus far. I’m on my second load of washing – after which there is only one more load before I get to the 4 sets of bedlinen which have been building up since the weather changed to make outdoor drying impossible. I hate trying to get duvet covers and sheets …