Supersonic Saturday

Today, as you may have noticed is Saturday...and it has been totally MAD!!!! Gone are the days when I managed to get a lie in (infact they waved bye bye the day I had Daniel.....), now the weekends are one big whirlwind....We have to be at Laurens ballet early, so that means we have to be up really REALLY early so that I can spend at least 20 years getting her hair just so!
Although her hair is a long bob, she is currently studying for her first ballet and tap exams, during which she has to wear her hair up....in a bun (of all things!). I decided that this was totally impossible and would NEVER happen, that was until I went to the class last week and was assured by the principle of the ballet school that YES....it was totally possible!!!!


After at least a thousand tries I think that I have finally mastered it (to a fashion).....with the help of a wonderful spray called FRUCTIS EXTREME GEL SPRAY. The trick apparently is to gel it back and then spray the hair so it does not move. Believe me, after the amount that I sprayed on it this morning, I doubt her hair will ever move again....

She has her exams next Saturday, so she will be prancing around the house (again), all week and then ruining the kitchen floor (just a bit more!), with her tap shoes. Of course there will be an update next weekend of how she does.....and hopefully some photos of the dreaded bun.....my camera battery decided to die on me the minute I tried to take a photo, typical!!!

Well after ballet we literally ran in and then out of the house and then went shopping.....for yet another birthday present. The children are both constantly coming home with party invites, which is all very lovely for them, but not that good for poor old me, who has to fork out for yet another present, card, paper etc etc (yes my middle name is scrooge!!). I jokingly told them that they would have to try and not be so nice to people and then they would not get as many invites, but that was met with total disapproval ha ha (I was honestly joking....really).

Once that was completed, together with another visit to the ballet uniform shop and to the local football shop (Portsmouth is the team that my darling son supports!!!), we have finally headed home to more madness.

Lauren has to go in the bath so that I can try and wash the 3 tonnes of hair gel out of her hair and then I have to jump in the shower, because shock of shocks I am going OUT (yes you may have fainted at this point...but I AM GOING OUT!!!!!!). You may have guessed from that cheering that it does not happen all that often, due to babysitter shortages and money etc etc....

My friend Natalie has reached that wonderful milestone in life of being 40, and so a group of about 17 of us are going to the local (and very nice!), chinese restaurant for a little celebration and some alcohol (yippeeeeeeee!!!!!). I am really looking forward to it, nice food, nice wine, nice company, adult conversation, you get the picture.....

Well, I had better hurry myself along, it is 4.30 pm and I am meeting everyone out at 7.30, so it will take me that long to put on my slap, do my hair and generally spruce myself up.... and first I have to remove hair gel from my darling daughters hair.....wish me luck, I get the feeling I will be needing it XX