CHILDREN'S PARTIES PART 2

This series of posts could run & run!! Don't worry dear reader, it won't!

Yesterday we were at a play centre party & very good it was too. It was here, at Alphabet Zoo. We've not been there before, well I took my nephew to a party there 8 or 10 years ago but we were a week early so we didn't stay!! Alice enjoyed herself - right up to the moment the bloke in a monkey suit came out! She really doesn't like those & isn't even fooled into thinking its a real monkey. "I don't like the man-in-a-monkey-suit bit Mummy"!

Anyway I would personally like to thank Mr Sainsbury's for selling 'High School Musical' dolls for half price & I'm wondering if Mr Tesco would do a similar offer on something for boys. Thank-you.

LAKELAND RULES!

Being something of a half descent cook (own trumpet successfully blown) - I have decided to concentrate on my presentation a bit - too much 'Masterchef - The Professionals' I fear. Anyway I've been looking in to buying some cooking rings - you know, those little metal rings to mold whatever & make it look all restauranty.

I went down 2 routes originally, firstly to buy some. I found that they range (generally) between £2.99 & 10 quid each. The only problem with that is you are stuck with the same size & I'd probably be spending £50 as I wanted 6.

Plan B was a great chav approach! Wash empty Heinz Pasta Shapes tins & remove the bottom! Hhmmm! I think we can do a bit better than that.

So after a bit more thinking & a prompt by the way of a brochure through the door, I tried good old Lakeland. They had had a massive brain wave on the cooking ring front & come up with these affordable & size altering beauties - not to mention they store away flat. You can even (with the aid of a v sharp knife) add some more slits for even smaller rings. Oh fabulous! Needless to say my 6 rings are here & awaiting use!

WHERE'S MY HEAD AT?

Twice, I've gone to empty the washing machine this morning to find that I've not actually switched it on - idiot! The 1st time I hadn't shut the machine door & the 2nd time I hadn't pressed the flashing green button - it's the same load as well. It's hardly rocket science. I obviously have my idiot head on today, I blame the lack of Magners - ah well the weekend is only a day away :-)

UPDATE
Clean washing successfully removed from machine - a small triumph in the day of a housewife!

TASSIMO UPDATE

Yay! It's back. They've just changed the espresso pod from Kenco to Carte Noir. Unfortunately if your Tassimo machine has a Kenco badge on it, the new pods won't work! Fortunately ours doesn't but my thoughts are with those Kenco badged Tassimo machine people.

TUMBLE TOTS

Last week I took Amelia to a trail session at Tumble Tots, she was a bit quiet to start with but by the 1st break for singing (play, sing, play some more, sing some more, go home!) she was lovin' it! Cheering & clapping after every song. So, I decided to take her again this week & enroll her. This time she was knocking at the door to get in as the leaders were setting up! She climbed on everything & at singing time she not only cheered & clapped after every song - she looked round the group saying 'Well Done' to the other children! I think she's going to be one of those children everyone knows the name of!!

TASSIMO HORROR

A couple of years ago, I bought Christian a Tassimo coffee machine for Christmas - it didn't quite top the Xbox gift but has come a close second! Since Amelia started walking (running & climbing), I have found a great love/need for this delicious caffeine based beverage - latte in particular. But to my horror I can't seem to buy any latte coffee pods anymore. Sainsburys in Dronfield & Sheffield have stopped selling it, as have Tesco in Chesterfield. So to the website ..... oh no ....out of stock - it's a complete Tassimo horror!

POORLY BUNNY

Poor Alice isn't very well at all :( When I picked her up from school yesterday she looked very pale & sad. The teacher told me she had a nasty fall & grazed her elbow, so I thought she was just feeling sorry for herself & a bit shaken.

At home she was still very upset & just lay on the settee, so as all bad mothers do, I offered her a MacDonalds Happy Meal for tea! This seemed to work & she perked up. Not long after setting off in the car for said happy meal she decided to barf all over! Well better before than after - I do so hate wasting money ;)

This began a long afternoon & evening of my poor little girlie throwing up, aahh, finally ending at about 9:30pm. So far today she's had milk, Rice Krispies & toast - so I would say she's on the mend. I hate my babies being unwell :( A well deserved 'duvet day' is the order of the day I think!

CHILDREN'S PARTIES

Since Alice started school she has attended at least 1 birthday party per weekend. I think its lovely that she's making so many new friends & I do keep finding some rather good bargain presents all well under a tenner.

But today was the party from hell .... it was a disco in a party hall next to a park in Dronfield. It maybe could have been OK but the DJ was rubbish. If you're going to do kids parties please at least research what 5 year old children are interested in. Playing Agadoo, The Music Man & Superman on a loop isn't anyones idea of fun & if you're going to play party games, explain the rules - don't just hold up a board of do's & don't's ... they're 5, they don't read.

2 pain filled hours & I didn't know any of the mum's & it was too loud for smalltalk ..... moan over - goodbye!!

BACK!

I know, I know I've let my blog slip a bit this year - 2 words... Bejeweled Blitz! It's a free game on facebook & I came a bit obsessed. But I have walked away from the facebook & returned to blogging!

So much has happened aswell - Alice has started 'big school', we still haven't sold the house, I've made about a billion cakes, I turned 37 (no biggy, I was convinced I was 37 all last year so I'm just having 2 years at it!), we went to The Old Vicarage for dinner & Christian bought me diamond earrings. Oh & of course our camping holiday was cut short by the arrival of a hurricane - great!

Anyway a new look blog & new posts to come - catch you later ;)

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES ....

I have been shamed by my child in Sainsburys this morning.
Whilst minding our own business a couple walked past us & in her loudest voice, Alice shouted "Poo! They haven't had a shower!" ...OMG.... She was quiet right, they did smell ... rather bad actually .... but you just don't say anything!!!
Another couple thought it was all very funny. I tried to explain to Alice that it's not nice to say things like that, but she just kept on saying "Why not, when they smell"!
Unfortunately we kept on bumping in to them down each aisle, the man glared at Alice & she walked past him with a cloth covering her nose & mouth! It was secretly very funny ;)