nearly 7 months for Poppy to work out that she has to shout loud in our house to get some attention.

Over the past 2 days she has developed this habit of yelling(not crying) yelling and then going all smiles when a face appears to talk to her. This afternoon I have been saying to her ‘Poppy stop shouting’ and even that gets a big grin. I guess she figures any attention is good attention….oh dear……..

So typepad was down yesterday, hence the silence. So what to do with myself I wondered when i couldnt trip down typepad lane last night…well here is some of what i got up to…..

another bit of news in our house is that our little maisie now sports a ‘proper’ pony. As in all her hair into a little tuft on top of her head. works wonders for keeping her fringe out of her eyes and also stopping her itching her neck. Im thinking i need to work on my portfolio of hair designs…at present, very very limited…..

have a good thursday. i’ll be back.

ps…and so will our powerbook…very soon…yippeee

…my name is Sarah and i live a lie……

i tell my son on a regular basis how much fun playing with trains is and really…i don’t have a whole heck of a lot of time for the ‘number one engine’

I don’t know quite what it is i don’t like about him. It isnt because its a train, train’s are okay. `its just something about Thomas and all his stiff up tight ‘you’re a really useful engine’ friends…..

But okay, i will admit, i kind of have a soft spot for Toby…the sort of garden shed with wheels one…i mean who wouldn’t?……

So today we realised we had left a thomas train at the childminders. I tried very unsuccessfully to convince him that there were other thomas trains to play with but he would’t have it…

So we all got into the car and went to retrieve him. I asked Isaac what was so different about this Thomas he said to be quite incredulously …..“its chuffty chuff Thomas”

Of course. 🙂

A few layouts peeps. Thought you might wanna look see….two very random layouts. first one is on white card so the edges got lost on the scan but you get the idea. Second one is Poppy, the title is 2 much fun..but yes it does look like heart 2 much fun, as so helpfully pointed out by my husband, Had meant to just have a few random letters by the 2 as i just love that 7 gypsies tape….but hey it was very late……..

🙂 Cyas

hello everyone, hope you had a good weekend. We did, had a good saturday of not much at all. I had some great quality time with Isaac. We rode the bus!!!! it was cool, you know, my lil’ boy just rocks.

He said on sunday when we where having tea (we decided to have ‘pudding’ we don’t usually but we had strawberries, meringues and cream in honour of wimbledon) Isaac not being a great lover of sauce, creamy type things…i said to him…..

‘Isaac do you want some cream on your meringue?’

he said…’No i dont want cream on my merangutang!!!’

Heeheehee. Ben nearly choked….

So onto the something a bit good…. today i went to work to say hello, im coming back in a bit and here is my new baby. It was good seeing everyone and I really enjoyed it. Weird seeing the little premmies again…and not weird at the same time??
But the cool thing i heard was this….

We have some international nurses working for us and they are largely from the phillipines and india and the like. Apparently a few months ago they were told that their contract were unlikely to be renewed as there wasn’t enough money in the budget. They are initially given a two year contract with the unit and this is what brings them over to the UK.

Weeelllll……they get all a bit upset and some of them walk out of the shift….so then, the news gets to our neonatal director…the grande fromage….head man and he goes to human resources and says to them that if they have any intention of getting rid of any of the NICU nurses after they have fought for 5 years to get the numbers to a decent level he would resign.

and guess what……

they renewed their contracts :0)

So. HAH….makes you want to climb to the top of a big building and yell ‘POWER TO THE PEOPLE”

Don’t you just love it?

Been playing around with the manual setting on our camera, having a bit of a lesson in photography from Ben. Thinking i will always need the kids to remain motionless for all shoots…yeah….who am i kidding!!!!

One year ago today, 55 people where killed in an attack on London.

The word above defines something that seems so unlikely and unachieveable in the world we live in today.

I was at work when we first got news of the attack and my lasting memory is of the screaming sirens and frantic work of the emergency services.

I work in acute care and have had the honour really of being with parents when they hold in their arms the babies that they have to allow God to take home.
It is, yes, a tragic moment for the parents but they are present, even if that fact alone tears them apart, they can know that their babies will spend the last moments of their tiny lives in the arms of the people who love them most.

Today my thoughts are with those parents who never had a chance to say goodbye to their children, the wives that kissed their husbands goodbye, expecting to see them in 8 hours time, the children who where maybe asleep when their daddy or mummy left for work only never to return.

I am not out to make any kind of political statement here. To be really honest I dont really have one to make anyway. I don’t know what it will take to create a safer world, I don’t have the wisdom or intelligence to know the solution.

But I want peace in our time, dont you?

can you believe it? ……sheesh mother, what was going on with that dress? I mean HOW SHORT? Im thinking that either there was some of this outfit missing (lets hope something with slightly less pattern on it) or that I (yes, it is me!) was obviously in some kind of audition for small kid cabaret. But my goodness do i need any other evidence that the 70’s were SO WRONG for fashion, i mean i know it has come back again since then, but really…..im at a loss for words!!

Anyway i stumbled across these photos here on the little ‘visiting liverpool’ ibook as my mum and dad had all these old slides put onto disc for a party about 6 months ago. So believe me, there are some other absolute CORKERS, but hey, some things are best left unseen by a internet viewing audience…if you know what i mean 🙂

So today was steffan day, Isaac’s little buddy Steffan stays for lunch at nursery and they get to hang out for an hour or so. You should see them, they are so cute. I took isaac to visit the little boy’s room when we got to nursery and little Steffan follows me in and goes into the next door toilet to isaac. The they start shouting at each other through the partition…hey, isaac, im having a wee too…I’m nearly finished….i’m going to wash my hands next….me too…..and so on. Cute little buddies. love it.:)

last little pic for this evening. some scrapping hopefully tomorrow evening…YAY…

but check this out, i mean how about those cheeks…..

Lotsa big love….s