The last few days.....

I have been feeling really rough ~ all I have wanted to do is stay in bed ~ but I have still had to get the children to school ~ still had to work ~ everything that needs doing still had to be done!! The joys of being a single mother!! OK ~ so I am through with feeling sorry for myself now ha ha !! Thank you all for your kind comments ~ thay have cheered me up so much!! I have got to come and visit all your blogs and catch up on the last few days ~ I feel lost without knowing what all my special bloggy friends have been up to ~ so I will be over soon!!

Tomorrow our village church will be celebrating the harvest festival ~ so on Friday my friend and I took the children that we care for to the church to see all the flowers being put in place and to take some fruit, vegetables and tinned food for the harvest donations (which are passed onto the local homeless shelter by the church). The children helped the place the donations around the font and enjoyed looking around the church.

The local ladies of the village help decorate the church with flowers, it always looks so pretty!

Here is a photo of me with the 2 children I look after (I am feeling pretty rough by the way ha ha !!).

Here we are again at the entrance to the church ~ which is always very nicely decorated ready for the harvest service. Today the children spent a few hours with their Dad ~ he took them out swimming and for something to eat ~ so I made the most of the time alone and went shopping (my favourite hobby tee hee!!). I splashed out on some new underwear at La Senza and bought some scented bath goodies ~ had a coffee ~ and went to the hairdressers...........with about 3 million (ok ~ maybe not that many!!) ~ pages from magazines of how I would like my hair!! I have been going to my hairdressers for a long time now ~ she knows what I am like ~ she knows that my style has to be VERY low maintenance ~ as time spent on my hair ~ is time NOT spent getting lunches ready in the mornings ha ha !! YET ~ I still roll in there every 6 weeks with pictures of styles that are totally not practical ~ have lots and lots of layers and would take the better part of 6 hours to do every morning (I am ever the optimist!!)......so ~ we looked at the photos ~ we discussed the styles ~ she said how nice my hair is looking at the moment ~ and I agreed that the style I have it in at the moment is actually quite nice and very easy to keep ~ so it was a case of a very quick tidy up ~ and much of the same ha ha !!!

This picture doesn't actually do it any justice ~ as it was taken quite a while after I had it done ~ and in my bid to save the ozone layer(????) ~ I opted out of the half a can of spray that was on offer tee hee!!!!

Tomorrow is the usual Judo in the morning for Daniel and then Lauren is off to yet another birthday party. It is her best friends party actually and she is very excited, as her best friend (Libby) is having the party at the gym that she attends and the children all get to use the gym equipment. Lauren has mentioned joining a gym class ~ but with all her dancing she wouldn't have the time and my bank balance is already on the verge of a breakdown ~ without any more added stress!! Laurens ballet teacher took me to one side this morning and told me that she is doing so well with her dancing and has a natural ability ~ which made me so proud!! She has always loved to dance and just has a way of picking up dance routines very quickly....she may have a career in dance ahead of her yet!!! (and then her overworked ~ very tired mummy can retire to a villa somewhere hot and drink cocktails everyday.....oh I can but dream.........)XXX