i discovered this…i like the idea of it. A little open letter exercise. You can click the box below to see some more….

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Dear man in park.

yes i saw you, saw you watch your dog poo on the path and walk off and leave it there. Yes it was me giving you total dagger stares and not trying to hold back the fishwife screeeech i wanted to send in your direction. I have little kids its not good to swear in front of them. People like you make me sick. literally. 

there are never any excuses, sarah

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Dear under floor heating system, 

WHAT IN THE HECK ARE YOU DOING? is wizzing the temperature up to 22 degrees at 2am in the morning in preparation for unexpected middle of the night travellers?

crazy thermostat love, sarah

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Dear flu/stomach bug. 

sod off. 

that is all, sarah

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Dear large supermarket, 

Can you just give me £5 off at the till rather than give me a jaunty little, soon to be lost, voucher for my next shop. It just irritates me A LOT, when i forget which is always

prolly not your fault tho, Sarah

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Dear wonderful son of mine, 

my darling boy you have sent me off another great song because you play it continuously in your room. Love that you love music son..but variety is good huh?

when you have moved on from this song, i will still be unable to listen to it. 

mama

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Dear hair, 

Getting yourself stuck to a calpol spoon just after washing and drying is so NOT funny. Smelling of sweet sickly kid medicine all day was not super fun. thanks.

whats that in my hair now, sarah

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Dear sweet potty trainer of mine, 

Coming in with a big grin on your face and in a self- congratulatory way saying 'i did a big poo in my pull up' is somewhat missing the point. C'mon now. 

mama

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Dear swimming instructor, 

when you tell my son that he needs to wear his clothes into the pool for his personal survival award. maybe would have been good to say put your trunks on under your tracksuit. Then he wouldn't have worn his underwear into the pool and had to go home commando

not so comfy im told, sarah 

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this week in the gallery. Me right now… click and see what other people are doing when they are reading what the gallery challenge is. So mine was this, which i posted on instagram because its my youngest in her cute baby slippers…and i thought awwww…but when i read the challenge to post a picture of what i was doing when i read Tara's gallery hint for the week. This was it. 

Okay so its not a picture of me…but i was sat on the floor one evening fiddling with my phone and checking out the gallery.  What makes me laugh about this image is that i could take this several times over throughout the day. This little person standing by me, sitting on me, hitting my legs, hands up 'pickmeupplease', jumping on me, gettingonandoffandonandoffandonandoffandonandoff my lap. Love me my little shadow #notallthetime. 

Seconds later she climbed on my lap and sat twiddling her cuskiboo and humming. So that was me right now. 

'Waiting to pounce'

1. Is it a bit naughty that i put both my kids to bed yesterday at lunchtime? knowing that my 3 year old would go to sleep (but probably didn't need to) and that would probably effect bed time…but i knew that I would bestarting my night shift and OH will be at home dealing with it. Is that really bad? is it?

2. On sunday my heart was warmed and my eyes prickled when someone was just 'kind' to me when they didn't need to be at all. I was left a bit speechless…

3. OH went away this weekend on a outdoor training thing…incredibly the first night EVERYONE slept ALL night, this is no small thing…as we have some totally shocking nights at the moment. phew. 

4. My daughter calls the Anglican Cathedral "the Anakin Cathedral" – if you saw the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral then it sort of looks like somewhere Anakin might hang out. Dark and gothic looking. Very star wars.. 

5. I booked a hotel for my weekend at britmums live conference. I think i might just stay in the room and sleep….no…really im so excited about meeting people who ive known online for a while. *skippety*

6. A lady walked past me on Sunday when i was out on my own with all the kids and the conversation went like this:

'are they ALL yours?'

me: 'uh huh' 

'wow..how to you cope?'

me: 'sometimes i don't!'

'my mother had 9 you know'

me: 'oh'

'so are you having any more?'

me: 'dont think so'

'yes that would be crazy wouldn't it'

and there you have it a personal conversation about both my contraceptive and mental health with a complete stranger. Lovely. *eyeroll*

7. Its so nearly the end of January and im not sorry to see the end of the month. Its felt very very LONG.

8. Music of course:

ive always loved this song and right now i would so l -uh-ove to be sat on a beach with the warmth of the sun on my face. Also try and think of another song that incorporates the words 'diddley squat' huh? betya can't

9. i bought some of this.. i like the idea that it gives 'radiance' to your skin. My skin could sure do with some of that right now. Actually that should be, I could do with some of that right now never mind just my skin. 

10. And leaving you this tuesday with some a few pearls of wisdom:

hannah

Lucy

Helen

Jo

theoriginalbritgirl 

If you have a blog why don't you join in with the ten on tuesday. Go on 🙂

Later in the year I am going to Britmums Live. Its a conference in London about blogging mums and other things. Im really excited about it espeically about the bit where i get to stay in a hotel in London overnight *squeal* like a grown up..no kids…ah so exciting…

There are lots of other mums going and Carley over at Stepfordwifey is running a little link up so that some faces can be put to some names. If you fancy joining in go over to Carley's blog and join in.

So here we go. 

Hellloooooo  *waves*

Name: Sarah

Blog: apartyofseven

Twitter ID: apartyofseven

Height: 5ft 4 and a little bit (its very important!)

Hair: shoulder length reddy brown depending on the bottle 😉

Eyes:Green/grey

Likes: photography, sunshine, snow, blue skys, kids laughing, Lady grey tea, diet coke (i shouldn't i know), cadbury chocolate, sunflowers, roaring fires, hot chocolate, bags, beaches, skype, twitter…..

Dislikes:  Inequality. injustice, poverty and people who don't pick up their dog's poo. 

thats me with my 4th baby who won't be coming to britmumslive…. *skip*

so im setting up a bloglines reader account, had one ages ago to keep me updated with rss feeds and something happened to it..and i can't for the life of me remember what it was but while i was entering some of my favourite blog feeds i came across this little meme being run by Actuallymummy  and the idea is to post up something funny on a sunday…

This week actuallymummy blog had posted a link to a Michael Mcintyre clip which had me chuckling..so i thought post this brilliant mum's take on the things you say in a day. I think i may have posted it a while back..but just love listening to it and funnily enough every time i do i seem to hear more and more of myself in it…

have a listen its only short….and go and check out some more by clicking the link below. 

🙂