Well I've got to say 4-year-old has come a long way since starting school last September. He's now drawing and colouring quite intricately, starting to read, but mostly his love in life is making many many many many many objects out of cardboard! Today's make is a Dragon apparently.
The school always ask for any boxes or empty bottles or anything the kids can use for art and crafts. I know if i send some in, my son will just bring it all back home!! We are basically hording everyone else's recycling!
The 'best' one was one Friday he come home clutching an empty fabric softener bottle that was apparently his 'rocket.' Only it didn't have a lid and all we could smell all weekend was 'summer breeze!'
When he's not crafting something, wasting sellotape and slopping glue everywhere he's drawing and yesterday evening burst into the shower room, whilst I was in there, shouting because he couldn't reach his chalk that was in the middle of the dining table!
On another note, for those that remember 'Bob the Bug' you'll be pleased to know that he his not sounding quite so much like the 'bug*er he used to be!!'
Moving onto 7-year-old, sometimes I can't believe the brain power on one so small! She completed 60 times tables in 90 seconds the other day! I just sat there staring at her in disbelief and awe!
She reads constantly, got in from work yesterday, she was already in her room reading, didn't see her for more than an hour until i called her for dinner. She'd read over 100 pages.
They say children's brains are sponges, they take it all in and learn so quickly, it' very true.
Xx
Tuesday 30 January 2018
Wednesday 24 January 2018
Happy Birthday to me!
So as I embark on my last 365 days of being a thirty something I wonder where did the time go? How did I get here?!!
This latte loving, mother of 2, school run, part timer wasn't always me!
How did I come to love the Saturday evening's at home, just the 4 of us, watching bad TV and talking absolute waffle!!
Call it old age but I actually like looking at the kitchen stuff in shops! There's a really nice apple pie tin in Sainsbury's!
I also feel, now I'm at this point/age that we're actually 'living' a bit more. Now the kids are both in school, they're that bit older, no toilet training, no changing bag and half the house each time you go out, no pushchair etc.
Having said that there's also a birthday downfall, partly due to having school age children, and partly the curse of a winter birthday is the certainty that someone WILL be ill on my birthday!
Take this year, I was rudely awoken at 5am by 7-year-old coughing, sat in with her for a bit, went back to bed but couldn't sleep as hubby had been poorly too so started wondering if I needed a 'plan b' for my birthday. Then got up at 7 to sound of 4-year- old shouting 'MUMMY' at the top of his voice.
Spent the next 2 hours downstairs telling 4-year-old to 'be quiet' because his sister and daddy were still sleeping.
Decide to rearrange my plan for the day, meanwhile throwing my parents and brother into turmoil as they suddenly realise they're feeding an extra 3 people for Sunday lunch!
Get back home in the evening and continue to tell 4-year-old to be quiet as I really can't take any more!
7-year-old is now coughing almost continually.
Eventually when everyone else is in bed, I think I might get to watch something I like at least with a glass of wine - no of course not - have to keep running upstairs as 7-year-old is coughing or should I say barking, therefore not sleeping, and sipping the wine is actually making me cough more!
So I've not felt particularly celebratory this year but as above, there are good points, and it's certainly not the end of the world. Its just life.
Xx
This latte loving, mother of 2, school run, part timer wasn't always me!
How did I come to love the Saturday evening's at home, just the 4 of us, watching bad TV and talking absolute waffle!!
Call it old age but I actually like looking at the kitchen stuff in shops! There's a really nice apple pie tin in Sainsbury's!
I also feel, now I'm at this point/age that we're actually 'living' a bit more. Now the kids are both in school, they're that bit older, no toilet training, no changing bag and half the house each time you go out, no pushchair etc.
Having said that there's also a birthday downfall, partly due to having school age children, and partly the curse of a winter birthday is the certainty that someone WILL be ill on my birthday!
Take this year, I was rudely awoken at 5am by 7-year-old coughing, sat in with her for a bit, went back to bed but couldn't sleep as hubby had been poorly too so started wondering if I needed a 'plan b' for my birthday. Then got up at 7 to sound of 4-year- old shouting 'MUMMY' at the top of his voice.
Spent the next 2 hours downstairs telling 4-year-old to 'be quiet' because his sister and daddy were still sleeping.
Decide to rearrange my plan for the day, meanwhile throwing my parents and brother into turmoil as they suddenly realise they're feeding an extra 3 people for Sunday lunch!
Get back home in the evening and continue to tell 4-year-old to be quiet as I really can't take any more!
7-year-old is now coughing almost continually.
Eventually when everyone else is in bed, I think I might get to watch something I like at least with a glass of wine - no of course not - have to keep running upstairs as 7-year-old is coughing or should I say barking, therefore not sleeping, and sipping the wine is actually making me cough more!
So I've not felt particularly celebratory this year but as above, there are good points, and it's certainly not the end of the world. Its just life.
Xx
Tuesday 16 January 2018
In charge of a 7-year-old
My 7-year-old daughter is beautiful, kind, academic etc but sometimes......... well ........ ............. honestly I just don't know!!
Scenarios include:
1. Walking through the front door to the sound of said daughter shouting 'who turned my bird off' is not a statement one often hears! She was, of course, referring to her 'Little Live Pets bird' that she got for Christmas where if you switch it on it tweets away. You can also record something and it repeats it back to you like a parrot. So this little bird has been known to say many things including 'merry Christmas, happy new year' and 'who let the dogs out' as well as other song lyrics!
2. I'm cooking dinner and in she strides announcing that if there is a child in the house under 5, and there's a fire, that we shouldn't call 999 but instead ring an 0800 number and book a free home safety check!! I don't think she's read the fire safety leaflet from school quite correctly!!
3. I'm in the bathroom for the obvious reason, upon leaving bathroom and opening door, I come literally face to face with daughter (I mean honestly there's barely a millimetre between us!) asking me if we need to keep a leaflet from the school advertising school holiday activities!! Seriously, how long had she been stood there, face pressed up against the door!!
And those who have read my blog from last week will know about the 'may the force be reduced' incident!!
Happy days 😂😂 xx
Scenarios include:
1. Walking through the front door to the sound of said daughter shouting 'who turned my bird off' is not a statement one often hears! She was, of course, referring to her 'Little Live Pets bird' that she got for Christmas where if you switch it on it tweets away. You can also record something and it repeats it back to you like a parrot. So this little bird has been known to say many things including 'merry Christmas, happy new year' and 'who let the dogs out' as well as other song lyrics!
2. I'm cooking dinner and in she strides announcing that if there is a child in the house under 5, and there's a fire, that we shouldn't call 999 but instead ring an 0800 number and book a free home safety check!! I don't think she's read the fire safety leaflet from school quite correctly!!
3. I'm in the bathroom for the obvious reason, upon leaving bathroom and opening door, I come literally face to face with daughter (I mean honestly there's barely a millimetre between us!) asking me if we need to keep a leaflet from the school advertising school holiday activities!! Seriously, how long had she been stood there, face pressed up against the door!!
And those who have read my blog from last week will know about the 'may the force be reduced' incident!!
Happy days 😂😂 xx
Tuesday 9 January 2018
May the force be with you
So 4-year-old has recently discovered Star Wars. Got a Star Wars light saber, slippers, pyjamas, lunch box and back pack for Christmas.
However I'm not sure about 7-year-olds understanding of the subject! The other day, 4-year-old was leaping around and playing with light saber whilst wearing nothing but a pair of pants and storm trooper slippers when 7-year-old leaps into the game holding a torch and shouting 'may the force be reduced!!' 😂😂
Yes, she actually thought that's what it was!!
Not sure me thinking it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard was particularly useful!
Anyway the phrase has now stuck and that's what she shouts every time she sees something Star Wars!
Also, you should never under estimate the power of a pair of storm trooper slippers! Since having the slippers they have worked as a form of bribery to get 4-year-old to take a bath, go to bed (wearing slippers, which were discarded as soon as he realised it wasn't very comfortable!) And get ready for school (obviously having to extract slippers from him to put on school shoes is a whole different argument!)
May the force be with you all today!! Xx
However I'm not sure about 7-year-olds understanding of the subject! The other day, 4-year-old was leaping around and playing with light saber whilst wearing nothing but a pair of pants and storm trooper slippers when 7-year-old leaps into the game holding a torch and shouting 'may the force be reduced!!' 😂😂
Yes, she actually thought that's what it was!!
Not sure me thinking it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard was particularly useful!
Anyway the phrase has now stuck and that's what she shouts every time she sees something Star Wars!
Also, you should never under estimate the power of a pair of storm trooper slippers! Since having the slippers they have worked as a form of bribery to get 4-year-old to take a bath, go to bed (wearing slippers, which were discarded as soon as he realised it wasn't very comfortable!) And get ready for school (obviously having to extract slippers from him to put on school shoes is a whole different argument!)
May the force be with you all today!! Xx
Tuesday 2 January 2018
Happy new year
So a Happy New Year to everyone.
Has anyone made any new year's resolutions? Call me pessimistic but personally I don't see the point! I mean, it's worth it if you're planning on stopping smoking or something life changing but you've still got to really want it. You've got to be mentally prepared, and personally I don't feel mentally prepared to stop buying lattes, start jogging or even go 'dry January!'
It's taken every ounce of mindful preparation this morning just to organise the kids into helping take the decorations down without any melt downs (from me that is!) And given that it's raining, yet again, it's going to take some brain power to find something to amuse them this afternoon as well, without getting soaked through, and I don't feel I can accomplish that without a takeaway latte in one hand!
Yes, I got up yesterday morning, not hungover as we didn't party the night away the night before (we watched Harry Potter and were asleep by 11!), and carried on just being the same person I always am. In case you hadn't gathered from the above, I will continue buying lattes, having the odd glass of wine, and definitely won't be jogging anywhere unless it's some sort of emergency!
So hopefully my regular posts will resume now, provided I get my usual daily inspiration from the small ones in 2018!
See you soon. xx
Has anyone made any new year's resolutions? Call me pessimistic but personally I don't see the point! I mean, it's worth it if you're planning on stopping smoking or something life changing but you've still got to really want it. You've got to be mentally prepared, and personally I don't feel mentally prepared to stop buying lattes, start jogging or even go 'dry January!'
It's taken every ounce of mindful preparation this morning just to organise the kids into helping take the decorations down without any melt downs (from me that is!) And given that it's raining, yet again, it's going to take some brain power to find something to amuse them this afternoon as well, without getting soaked through, and I don't feel I can accomplish that without a takeaway latte in one hand!
Yes, I got up yesterday morning, not hungover as we didn't party the night away the night before (we watched Harry Potter and were asleep by 11!), and carried on just being the same person I always am. In case you hadn't gathered from the above, I will continue buying lattes, having the odd glass of wine, and definitely won't be jogging anywhere unless it's some sort of emergency!
So hopefully my regular posts will resume now, provided I get my usual daily inspiration from the small ones in 2018!
See you soon. xx
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