End of the holidays

We have all had such a wonderful half term holiday. We went out every day and spent time with my fabulous Liz, Wendy, Emma and Lucy and all their lovely children. It was Thomas and Holly's birthday in the week as well so lots of cake and pressies and treats we to be had :-)
We saw Gulliver's Travels and Tangles in the cinema and took the children to a Chinese restaurant - they took the 'all you can eat' part literally!! Emma and Liz also introduced us to Geocaching, a sort of treasure hunt walk. My lot absolutely loved it and made a 3 hour walk with the dogs alot more fun. Tom had a GPS thingy for his birthday so was the leader and found all the hiding places with Samuel very closely beside him at all times! I think Jetney was very pleased that we were all home to give him attention all day and take him for nice walks.


Yesterday was Emma's 30th birthday and Matt and friends organised a surprise birthday for her at the White Horse. It was really nice to get together with everyone during the day. Again the children loved messing around together and we got to chat and eat lots of cake YEAH xx



I have been a little naughty today and have bought a couple of Emma Bridgewater mugs!!!! (it would seem my mug obsession is outgrowing my shoe obsession!) - in my defense they are not for me though.............. I've got a yummy one for my mum with Labradors on it and one for Ben saying Daddy (which is to be kept for Fathers day if I can cope hehe). I'm so pleased with them, I had to get Ben's early to save on postage of course!!!!!!!!!.

Ive got the day off tomorrow so I'm intending to go through all my clothes and send a few bits (alot if Ben has his way) to the charity shop! The great Lang detox has to continue as my two weeks annual leave to decorate is coming up soon and I'm needing it all to be ready in time. I think I might add a shelf or two to the list of DIY jobs to put my lovely mugs on :-)

 

       







Half term YEAH xx

We have been very busy over the last month! but finally it is half term and time to relax a little and enjoy some time together. I've got to work on Monday but then I have the rest of the week off which will be really nice.
Well I'm sorry to say that my craft party did not happen! We have postponed it. Lots of my friends were not really into making cards and the ones that wanted to come found the night too hard to arrange babysitters for or were away. I'm so so sure that it is my thing at all, not when I can buy from a friend who has a card selling business!! I know this is not the idea but life is far too short I have decided to be messing around sticking and stamping things. I love the cards my children make far too much to try myself xx
The dining room got painted what I thought was a really fab yellow colour!!!!! Big mistake it looked awful and I had to paint over it again the next day - I was really disappointed but it's back to cream again but looking alot fresher. I've just bought some new picture frames to put up this weekend which I cant wait to get on the wall. For some reason we don't have too many pictures of ourselves around the house so I thought I would remedy this. The fabulous Julie took my curtains up and made me a small 'net' out of some muslin I had and my window now looks amazing. I have also found in our local market a man that makes and sells wrought iron curtain 'tie backs' so I'm going in on Tuesday to meet him with an idea of what I would like. He's made some amazing things. The room will be finished and look great soon.
Samuel has been very romantic this week. Being only 9 we were very impressed!! He decided that he needed to but Ruby a present. He started his search in Country Chic! I persuaded him out of buying a fabulous necklace for £30.......We ended up in another shop buying her a bracelet for £3 hehe (Sorry Ruby). We didn't get chance to see her on Valentines night and she was busy swimming the night after and Samuel was getting a little frustrated with the whole thing as he so desperately wanted top see her aaaahhhhhh. He is a very resourceful young man as Liz turned up with Ruby and Tom later that evening - after receiving a phone call from our younger Romeo! He'd gone up into his bedroom with my phone and called Liz on her mobile asking her to call in on the way back from swimming!!!!!!!! We were shocked - and on any other day would have got told off - but Liz felt sorry for him and called over as he had been so sweet. Liz and I have decided that it was possible the most romantic thing that we have heard of, bless him. Just hope he puts as much effort into the day when he gets older :-).
The house detox continues boo and hiss! and today we are making multiple trips to the tip, fun fun fun. At least I will have the children around me this week to help!