of parenting. Last friday/saturday we had our kids in bed at 6.30pm!!!

why?

because we needed to. Boy oh Boy no-one mentioned that turning four is that age when children start with the ‘i know it all’ thing….

or that siblings….squabble…..a lot. I’m thinking that our 7 seater is not big enough as we will start needing more substantial divisions between our children for long journeys….mmmm….like some of that sound proof stuff. LOL

So the parenting path has been steep recently, dotted with the odd thorn bush. Stopping to sniff the flowers isnt an option at the moment.

But then today, I had a nice day with the kids. We played after nap time in their bedroom, just tickles and stuff and i found myself loving these small folk that share our house and our lives.

So we are running at capacity here. Got the party at the weekend. Just got 420 pics back from photobox so looking for some serious scrapping now. Oh yeah can feel the inspiration……

blessings guys x

the birthday boy and some not so bad pics with the dreaded flash 😉

yep….double birthday in our family. Two wonderful, groovy and fabulous guys. One one the small side at the moment and one not.

Our little isaac is 4 years old today….can’t believe how time flies.

My big brother is *coughthirtysomethingcough* today……and also can’t believe how time flies.

We started a tradition in our family this morning with Isaac opening presents in our bed with all of us first thing and having a bit of chocolate. Yep…thats my kind of tradition 🙂

Isaac dished out his chocs to the family…we call it… ‘Sharing the love’

Poppy had her first taste of a chocolate button…initially she spat it out and then a realisation came over her face…MMMMMMM…she said 🙂

So here a a couple of pics of the birthday boys…really sorry paul, but you know i just had to 😉

yep, thats me in the background. Couldn’t just humiliate you bro’

and our boy doing his most favourite thing….riding a train

something i found yesterday which just made me think of my boy…….especially as he gets bigger and starts to grow away from us and discover who he is….

Figure it out for yourself, my lad,
You’ve all that the greatest of men have had;
Two arms, two hands, two legs, two eyes,
And a brain to use if you would be wise,
With this equipment they all began–
So start from the top and say, I CAN.

Look them over, the wise and the great,
They take their food from a common plate,
And similar knives and forks they use,
With similar laces they tie their shoes;
The world considers them brave and smart,
But you’ve all they had when they made their start.

You can triumph and come to skill,
You can be great if you only will;
You’re well equipped for what fight you choose,
You have arms and legs and a brain to use;
And the man who has risen great deeds to do
Began his life with no more than you.

You are the handicap you must face,
You are the one who must choose your place.
You must say where you want to go,
How much you will study the truth to know;
God has equipped you for life, but He
Lets you decide what you want to be.

Courage must come from the soul within
The man must furnish the will to win.
So figure it out for yourself my lad,
You were born with all that the great have had;
With your equipment they all began,
Get hold of yourself and say, ‘I CAN.’

yep..thats where i have been…..

‘calling hughie on the big white telephone’

A *lovely* expression for being sick that we discovered i think while i was on holiday in France many moons ago.

It seems that every couple of months i get struck down with one of these bugs. Anyway should be at work today, but im not. Instead i am wobbling around the house, opening windows and doing mountains of washing.

Isaac seemed quite concerned yesterday when i wouldnt let him take a swig from my bottle of water. ‘Its got bugs in it’ I told him.

He looked totally horrified and said ‘I want none bugs mummy’

well tomorrow is a biggish day here in our house……so got to get on with the washing…..

Latah.

🙂

that we are planning on moving house?

We are hoping to move to a bigger house with a bit more of a garden. As we currently have no garden. This will probably sound really odd to my north american friends but we have a little patch of concrete outside our back door which we call a ‘yard’

Our house is a victorian terraced house which was built in something like 1905, i think. Back in them days they didnt seem overly concerned about outside space.

Anyway so we are looking for something with a bit of grass and some more storage because boy oh boy do we need it 🙂

So we have been looking at houses and I was struck yesterday when viewing yet another house that was for sale because of the breakdown of a marriage. Just how sad it is to see homes like this. The people showing the house seem okay but their homes look broken. No feeling, no stuff just kicking around, you know the stuff of living. Its sad. The houses, they just seem a bit, i dunno….lost

I mean i’m not passing judgement on people in this situation. You can just really feel it when the heart has gone from a home i guess.

So far we havent come across a house that ticks all the boxes. We found one that was so awesome. Big Edwardian town house with big garden and a kitchen that was HUGE. I could see the Christmases in there….know what i mean 😉 but one big downer..it is on a very very main road…just too busy *sigh* so we had to say no……

anyways…..we have been having a heck of a lot of rain recently..can you tell?

Once i managed to get these pics printed off, i will for sure be scrapping them 🙂

……okay so a bit of nostalgic ’80’s referencing there…but it made me laugh:)

can you see her?

further proof that we need a bigger house when we have to resort to ‘corners’ of the room for high chairs ‘cos the train track is just taking over..!!!!!

Okay…just realised after i had posted this that the title didn’t make sense and that some peope who read this might be thinking…wha?