a new day…

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when my girls got to part ways……these two…been together for a while now and are best friends. That sounds mushy and cutesy but Maisie said to me today as i was trying to get her excited that it was just 'mummy and her'…'but I miss Poppy, she is my best friend.' Awwwww…tears right? Well maybe a few…..

I would seriously recommend the age gap between these two, which was an 'at the time' incredibly short 15 months. But i havent seen many other young kid relationships like these two have.  So anyway…

Tuesday saw the start of Poppy at pre school and Maisie at school….this picture is just outside the pre school and Poppy was raring to go in. It seemed very strange leaving her there and coming away with Maisie. Like I said, they have always done everything together. People have often commented that they are a bit like twins. I dont really agree. Twins are at the same developmental points at the same time. Poppy is not the same age as Maisie, she isnt the same school year, there are some things that she cannot do or actually understand but oh.my. does she ever want to do all the same as big sister. I dont think she thinks she is any different. Which is why this new adjustment in their relationship might be tough…

When we got home from pre-school and it was just me and her. She went all quiet and then suddenly she looked bereft and started to cry. I asked her if she was missing Maisie and she looked at me with a large amount of indignation on her face and said 'No! i'm missing Isaac!'…..

Not sure that i believe her…..
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So you never knew I was a thrill seeker then?

well ex-hu-use me…but i think you will find this some convincing evidence…

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although got to fess up and tell ya that when i zoom in on those pics my knuckles are so white holding onto that rail im surprised that the blood was still flowing….and the reason you cant really see my lower legs in the last picture?…well that was because i had wrapped my legs around the underside of the seat and was hanging on in a way that made my calves hurt…and yeah..okay..i had my eyes tightly shut for about 85% of the time!

yeah…thats me…

thrill seeker…

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The Queen…

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wearing what appears to be a necklace of polo mints…but really..

least of her concerns…check out the square nose.  But 'tis lego and i imagine the designer did the best they could. 

In other news….

we moved into September and it began to raaaaiiiin……nothing like Britain in the rainy season…oh wait..thats all the time!

we have finally moved Isaac into his own room, tonight is the first night..gonna see how it goes.

Our good friends Barry and Kate fly to South Africa in a few days time. So very excited for them.

We are going to try and do something that might make our kids appreciate what they have…getting fairly tired of the 'can i haves' all the time. More on this later.

Matilda is keeping some bizarre and frankly anti social hours at the moment. My eyes were stinging by 9am this morning…

Isaac goes back to school tomorrow..i have a bajillion name tags to iron/stick whatever and yet im sitting here doing this…

Maisie has t- 4 days till her first day in school. Prepare for the school pics – she looks very cute.

Our car passed its MOT…that was until ben said 'what even with that rear brake light not working?' to which mechanic said 'oh i didnt notice that' – i think maybe we should be concerned about their thoroughness…is that a word? Kirstin?

and finally the girls sat on the lap of some strange man……..

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Have you ever noticed…

that i pretty much always do my blog at some mad hour at night? Well not today, although there is a strong and very likely chance that I will get side-tracked, called on or otherwise in the next few minutes…

But im trying because I always leave it too the last minute. The last thing that 'needs' my time. Neglected and waiting at the back of the queue. – the old blogola….

Trying to change that right here – So today I went to this very funky little store, which i stumbled across whilst at the local outlet village. It is Australian, i think or maybe Kiwi..not sure…but anyway i stumbled across it and fell in love with some of their ranges…

Today i went there with all four kids by myself on the purpose of getting some trousers for Poppy. She seems to have none and also is refusing to wear anything that we try to put on her. So instead of letting my child charge around naked…which she will do…I thought i would give it a try…

The other totally BRILLIANT thing about the shop is that hidden in the corner is a small TV screen which, today, they were playing High school Musical 3…..oh Lord I have landed in heaven…

okay…

so not quite…

But my three bigs will sit and watch and not move for about 15 minutes whilst i browse the shelves without having to worry about them destroying stock, running from the store, or being pinched by some mad man…etc….

I got chatting to the store manager, who was a lovely Irish lady who asked me that question 'are you done at four then?'….(hmmm..yeah wont go into the inappropriateness of complete strangers wanting to know your family planning!)…and then proceeded to tell me her sister in law is just about to have her 7th! Yikes! Holy Uterus! that cant be fun!

Im going off the point….after about 5 minutes of being in the store Matilda (who was alseep) woke up and decided very quickly that she was, in fact, hungry. You may remember that I said, whilst generally a bit quiet, when hungry or tired, she goes 0-60 quicker than a lamborgini…

So me frantically wondering how i was going to feed a screaming baby..behind a row of clothes, sqwatting on the floor all without abandoning my children to the aforementioned mad man….

and then the manager mentioned that i could sit just outside the door to the shop (on a bench) and the kids could stay and watch the TV and that would be cool. I also had a bit of unpaid for merchandise on my buggy which she said was cool….

and i breathed a sigh of relief..someone had seen my plight and offered a solution and not just staring at me and saying something really helpful like   'awww is she tired?' 

Matilda got fed, the kids got the dose of information on how american teenagers live out their days at school (dancing and singing everywhere ob-viously!) and i sat…

which is always good 🙂

So pumpkin patch now have my patronage…which it earned not because of its great clothes, but because their staff saw me as an individual person and not a credit card…God bless ya..

and on that note..it is a ridiculously early 6pm and i should get and feed the masses…

peace x
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Back to base..

we have returned from the seaside…

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and yes it was a bit windy….
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