So Ady went back to work today and much as I missed him it was sort of nice to return to normality a bit. In many ways I’d love to have him home more, or infact all the time, but because he’s not and it is a temporary state there are irritations which would be …
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Birthday monitor say…
Happy Birthday Anna 🙂 Have an excellent day and look forward to seeing you at the weekend 🙂
I got chills….
This morning Davies reminded us of the one request he made way back on Christmas Eve when we said how Ady would be off work for over a week, which was to go to ‘the dinosaur place’. We’ve not been for months and infact I’d let the season ticket lapse without renewing it but had …
Little things…
My pc really does seem to be dying. I’ve run all of the various system tools which seem to have made it run faster but it still keeps switching itself off. I now dimly recall hearing an odd noise from it last week and have decided, in my capacity of total computer know-nothing- that the …
Happy New Year :-)
Welcome to 2006! I’m intending to live life with vim. I’m also intending to use the word a day in my blog that I get emailed to me from dictionary.com every day 😉 We had a pleasant enough evening last night, my parents were over and behaved true to form, so at least some things …
a question I’ve pondered but never found the answer to before…
and now I know 🙂
Lottery – it could be you!
Ady’s just done a mad dash to the shops to get a lottery ticket for tonight cos the shop round the corner’s machine had broken down. We stopped doing the lottery last month – we used to have direct debit and do five lines a week and I have not really given it a thought, …
Out with the old then…
I’ve already done my round up and I don’t do NY resolutions so this is just a round up of today rather than anything monumental. I popped out to Sainsburys this morning to get a few bits to see us through the next few days – and some more alcohol for tonight! Called in to …
Sod whiskers on kittens…
These are a few of my favourite things… A cuddle from Scarlett, a hot mug of tea My shiny new laptop, a Will Young cd Heat magazine full of celebrity chatter Oh yes I know the things in life which really matter! 🙂
It’s raining, it’s pouring…
and we never got any snow to play in here 🙁 Yesterday at Drusillas there was barely enough to scrape together a snowball (although I did and chucked it at Ady just as he bent down to set up the camera for a self timer shot and in a never to be repeated fluke of …
In summary…
2005, the best of times, the worst of times… This year has cemented for me that Home Education is the right choice for our family. It has proven itself to me over and over again in watching my own children, the other children I know who are Home Educated and also the children I know …
Challenges and compliments…
My turn to get up early this morning and early indeed it was before 6am! Watched TV cuddled up with both children for a while and then they decided to go into the playroom, Davies to play Zoombinis and Tarly to watch him and do some painting – she produced a very g ood likeness …
Lull…
I did have plans for all the things we were going to achieve for this week and thus far we seem to have achieved none, but we’ve done lots of lazing and just being together which is very probably far more important than working through the house room by room decluttering really! 🙂 Had a …
Wrapping up the year…
Everyone feels better here today – thankfully! Not the case over at my parents apparantly where Frazer is suffering, so glad we didn’t go over there today! Infact with the exception of me braving Tescos for some essential bits and pieces (stuff like Christmas cake which we’d not bought any of, some alcohol and so …
Huddled on sofa..
Not sure if it is Christmas come-down kicked in already, a less severe bout of what laid Ady low yesterday (he’s much better today if a little delicate) or just a case of too much sleep but I’m sat on the sofa in pjs, listening to my new Will Young cd, looking at everyone’s flickr …
Birthday monitor say…
Happy Birthday to Tiegan. Hope your day is filled with love and laughter in the tinsel 🙂
Earlier than planned!
We’re home again. Ady started feeling unwell this morning and was being ill by the time we arrived at my parents. He did manage a very small Christmas dinner but was looking pretty crap and feeling worse so it seemed a bit crazy to stay there the night on a very ‘make do’ sleeping situation …
The boys from the NYPD choir were singing Galway Bay…
Had a very Christmas Eve-y Christmas Eve so far today and it’s been lovely 🙂 We spent most of the day at Chris and Julies while the four children ran around in the state of excitement that only four small children on Christmas Eve can achieve. Julie and I drank mulled wine and there were …
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Birthday monitor says
Happy Birthday to Joseph from Classroom Free – hope you have had a lovely day 🙂
The Christmas Staff Don’t…
which would be the opposite of the Christmas Staff Do, which is what we attended last night. I have done many a Christmas Staff Do in my time; I’ve done sit down, buffet, no food at all. I’ve done dressy, casual, somewhere inbetween; I’ve done posh venue, trashy venue and on one memorable occassion multi-venue …