feels like i havent done one of those in ages….

1. Not that im focused on it or anything but its only 4 days till i fall into the next decade of life. Im still undecided about how i feel about it really…

2. Wondering who is going to buy what from my list ……

just kidding….

a bit 😉

3. Isaac is worried about what car he will buy when he is 18, how he is going to get the money and what sort of job will pay enough to get a car…didn't have the heart to tell him that there is no way he will ever be able to insure his own car at 18 let alone afford one. His short list so far consisted of Land Rover, Volvo, Mercedes…a mini cooper went past us and he said 'oh not one of them they are too small..' thats the response of a kid from a huh-ooge family right?

4. We went to a christening on the Wirral on sunday. Such a pretty little girl and baby friend for our J bird. 

5. Bouncy castle for the party on Sunday or not.? just can't decide, if it didnt mean sacrificing so much of the actual garden then it would be an easy choice..but then i suppose it could be raining?

6. I went to the dentist last week, check up…was in the surgery for less than about five minutes and when i came out the three older kids who i had left in the waiting room had helped themselves to three cups of hot chocolate from the complementary drinks machine….i ushered them out before the dentist saw…but really should there be hot chocolate available in a dentist and also…who slams back a cup of coffee just before seeing the dentist…? coffee breath is not nice at the best of times but when you are up that close its got to be bad. 

7. My iphone had what i think was a bit of a 'petit mal' the other day, it just went blank and wouldnt come on again, eventually i managed to get it on but im wondering if it is on its swan song so to speak…and i accept that i may be wishing that 'cos id quite like the iphone 4…

8. Today i walked a grand total of 8 kids home from school, no-one got lost, run over or disappeared and it was only when i crossed a particularly busy road and i made them all stand in a row that i thought 'wow this is a lot of kids' and also 'im not surprised so many people are staring at me?' hey…Maria Von trapp?….

you got nothin' on me 🙂

9. check out this blog post… here..not sure im an introvert but i love some of her ideas. Especially the single line journalling, think im going to give that one a go. 

10. and leaving you with one of the songs that oh so much takes me back its not true…hahahahahahaha…yeah ;p

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we have had a great weather week. School is out and the sun appeared for most of the week. Which as we were 'staycationing' this half term was brilliant. Isaac got to play football at a local Uni campus for two days of the week. Ben was labouring away fixing the deck and sorting things a bit for next weekend and so us girls got to hang out a bit. I did a a lovely shoot on Thursday, you can see that here if you fancy a peek… and when i got back we played around a bit with the lights in the front room. 

the full compliment of James ladies jnr. Yes there had been face painting!

one suspicious looking baby..she has since finally worked out the leg/knee co-ordination for proper crawling..although she looks a little like one of those wind up crawling dolls. 🙂

and a little cheesy but the girls were playing with the 'alphablocks' so we gave them to J. Mind you, it took Ben passing by and telling me that i had spelt her name wrong……

I think its good though that i was actually calling the right child by the right name. Sometimes there are entire days when that doesnt happen at all!

and no..she wouldn't stop eating those blocks!

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much…

🙂

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remember this:

okay so who jumped up and down at a school disco to this? C'mon you can admit it, we are all friends here?…great thing about this song tho, no dance ability required. It literally tells you to jump up and down in your 10 hole DM's….

Yes…yes..they have already been in fashion kids….

Until i searched this song on youtube i had know idea the name of the band, what the lead singer looked like but that tune is engraved on my memory forever…

love it!

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that meant i couldn't upload some movies from my 5d to the 'puter. Thats now fixed, which is a relief, although fixing it nearly gave me heart failure when the iphoto library blinked at me with exactly zero images in it………

anyhow it was resolved by my super techy minded husband and i breathed out again. 

But i am now able to share this little clip from our skiing holiday, which seems like a long time ago now! This was probably the afternoon of the day that i helped rescue a 71 year old british guy who had taken a bit of a tumble, dislocated his shoulder and torn a large chunk of his face with his sunnies…

what?

i didn't mention it before?

;))

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