A SPOT OF RETAIL THERAPY!!

Hurray for FRIDAY!!!!! AND for once I actually finished work early ~ which up to now has been unheard of!!!! Not wanting to let the opportunity pass me by ~ I decided to pop to the shops and have a little look round!! There is so much that I need to do before we go away next week and I have planned that for over the weekend, the children both need their hair cutting and I am at the hairdressers on Sunday (still not 100% sure whether to be brave and have the haircut from the magazine ~ or something very similar!!).

Today we all got a little treat (it is payday today ~ so why not!!). Daniel managed to burst his most favourite football last week while he was playing in the park ~ so he has been nagging me to get him one all week ~ but the opportunity hadn't arisen until today. We stood and we looked at the footballs ~ ranging from the very cheap to the not so cheap!! Daniel had his heart set on one towards the more expensive range ~ which is holographic and silver ~ and nothing else would do ~ so I let him have it. He has been so great recently ~ and never moans when Lauren gets yet another piece of dance clothing !! So I didn't mind one bit!!
He has been in the garden with it all afternoon and it is already covered in mud ~ a sign that it is being well used ha ha !!!!

Here is one very happy boy ~ with one silver holographic football under his arm!!!!


Lauren is at a Dance Summer School next week and needs at least 3 million dance items before then!! Luckily she has most of the required uniform from the classes that she already does!!

One thing she needed was new tap shoes ~ with toe and heel taps ~ her feet just keep on growing (wish they would slow down a bit!!).

Here are Laurens new tap shoes ~ which she has been practising in on the kitchen and bathroom floor (There are scuff marks to prove it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) ~ THANK GOD FOR EBAY!!!!!

Dance sneakers ~ which I think will have to be surgically removed from Miss Laurens feet!!
I have tried making her take them off ~ and failed dismally (this photo was taken about 2 seconds before they went on her feet ~ not to be taken off since!!) Lauren still needs a pair of split sole Jazz shoes and a Kingfisher blue dance leotard ~ neither of which are that expensive and I have a 20% off voucher for the dance shop which I haven't used yet ~ which will come in handy!!

Now for a bit of Mummy retail therapy!! Yes ~ I am very boring indeed!! I went to my favourite place ~ Waterstones Bookshop and they were doing a 3 for 2 offer on most of the titles ~ so how can a girl resist (where books are concerned ~ they have replaced chocolate in my life ~ tee hee ~ I cannot get enough of them!!!!).

I treated myself to 3 new books ~ 2 by Anita Shreve ~ The Pilots Wife and Light On Snow and the other by Nora Roberts (who I have never read before) ~ called High Noon!!

I am going to be making another visit to the book store very soon to buy the books that Kat recommended on her blog a while ago ~ which are the Twilight series (I think!!) ~ by Stephenie Meyer ~ I didn't see them today while I was in there ~ but I have checked on line and the local store should stock them. I am looking forward to reading them ~ and from what Kat has said ~ they sound really good!!!

This week has been very tiring ~ with it being the first full week of the holidays ~ and there being so many children!! I am actually glad that it is over (not that anything majorly bad has happened!!). Next week lauren will be at Dance School from 11 am to 4 pm ~ so that means that I only have Dan and the 2 children that I look after ~ so it will be a bit more relaxed!!!

For now ~ I am going to put the kettle on ~ make a nice cup of coffee and start on one of the new books ~ XX