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 ;)

THE EVIL GOLDEN ARCHES

Today I have been rather foolish. We (the girls & I) have been to a play centre this morning, where children play & mothers drink coffee and gossip, then straight from there we went to Mothercare, Next & even Matalan trying to find a pair of slippers to fit Amelia (unsuccessfully). By 2:30 I remembered that 2 lattes aside I hadn't eaten anything & was actually starving & a little light headed. So I decided to forget my diet for half an hour & stop at the McDonalds drive through, I may as well right the day off as fat pig central. 2 fish finger Happy Meals for the girls (bad bad mother) have been liberally distributed across the dining room floor (Amelia) & I had a Big Mac, large fries & some sort of fried cheese nugget things, but that wasn't it ...... McDonalds have this awful affect on me that make me feel hungrier when I've finished than I was when I started ... which is usually very hungry hence stopping there in the 1st place. So after my fried-shit-in-a-bag meal, I have also had a box of Mikado biscuits, a large slab of still a bit frozen lemon cake, Quavers & 6 water biscuits with cheese - now I feel very full if not a bit sick! Thank you evil clown for your "2 all cow patties, special additives, processed crap & old lettuce in a sesame seed bun"!

POCKET OF PLEASURE ...

This doesn't happen very often to me but today, Alice is at pre-school, Amelia is in bed, the washing is in, dryer on, dish washer emptied, house (fairly) clean & tidy & it's lunchtime. A little pocket of pleasure to sit down & watch tv whilst having my lunch. Unfortunately I have nothing pending on sky plus & the best that sky can offer me is ..... Loose Bloody Women! Screw that - so it's a quick post & twitter for me ..... wasted opportunity, never mind!

WASTING AWAY

I've just brought myself up to date with Tracy's blog & she feels like it's turning into a housewife cookery course or something!! Well if that's the case mine's turning into the diary of a fat chick! (they actually have these on the slimfast web site!) Anyway if its all to mundane for you dear reader then look away now.....

I have lost another jean size - yay!

I am quiet comfortably sitting here, breathing properly in size 14 jeans.... come on!

WEIGHT CHECK

After a quick bmi check, I am no longer obese ... I am officially overweight! Who'd have thought that statement would make anyone feel proud!?

It was one of my New Year resolutions to loose 3 stone .. well 50lbs to make a nice round number & so far I've lost 18lbs so I'm quiet pleased with that :)

I was so ashamed last year to go to the British Grand Prix in size 18 jeans - ouch! If I can keep this up I will be definitely in size 12's this year - yay!