Jack Frost

This morning we woke to a frosty covering over the village that we live in ~ for the first time this Autumn!! Much as I loved the beautiful white wintery scene that Jack Frost had left for us I wasn't so keen on venturing out in the cold to defrost the car before the school run. Out I went ~ de icer spray in hand ~ all ready for my defrosting task!! Unfortunately the car was freezing back up as I was spraying the de icer on, so I gave up and scraped the damn thing instead!! We all got loaded into the car ready to go ~ but we had to wait for it to de mist and then I had to drive along with the window open ~ to stop us all steaming up again ha ha !!!

By lunchtime the weather was glorious ~ warm and sunny!! What a strange climate we are living in at the moment!!

I had my weigh in tonight and I lost ZERO pounds this week ~ not a thing!! I am a bit fed up with it this week ~ I am not going to give up ~ that is not an option!! I just cannot work out how you can eat virtually the same thing 2 weeks in a row and one week you lose 2 pounds and another you don't lose a thing!! HOW THE HELL DOES THAT WORK???????
Never mind ~ onwards I go ~ I knew that it would get harder and slow down ~ but it still is a pain in the bum when it actually happens (tee hee!!).

After I got weighed, I decided to pop and quickly try and get some trousers!! You will be glad to hear that it was a succesful mission!! I no longer have to go to the Christening looking like a clown!! I have a very nice pair of black trousers ~ and they fit great ~ I was so pleased that I could fit into a UK size 12 at last (not sure what size that would be in the US or Australia ~ for all my lucky bloggy friends that don't live in the UK !!!!) ~ I did try on the size 10 pair ~ and although I could get in them and actually get them done up ~ they were rather snug and I don't think that I would have been able to eat, breathe or sit down all day (tee hee) ~ so maybe a few more weeks and pounds lost before I try that size again!!

The children are starting to wind down a bit now ~ they are only at school tomorrow and then have Friday off ~ next week is half term and we have lots of Halloween fun activities planned ~ so they are excited about that! They both brought home their school Christmas dinner menus today ~ which sounded yummy ~ they have to choose what they would like and send it back in after the half term! I am trying not to look at the christmas counter ~ I think it was something like 64 days the last time I looked at it ~ I am sure that can't be right ha ha !!!

I have made a start now on the childrens christmas present shopping and they have both made a start on their santa christmas lists.~ ( I had to buy a few things ~ as I keep having this dream that I wake up and it is Christmas morning and there are no presents and I have forgotten to buy anything ha ha !!) Lauren basically would like every single item that was EVER made ~ linked in some way to High School Musical ~ pillows, quilt set, books, make up and there is even a perfume now!! So she should be quite easy to please. Daniel is a bit harder ~ he has a few things on his list, he would like a guitar and a bike and some computer games. The main thing that he would like is a PS3, which I cannot afford to get him ~ but I think that his dad may be buying him that!! (He has said he will, I just hope he follows up on it!!).

Well, I am off to watch Silent Witness ~ one of my most fav programmes ~ and later Desperate Housewives is on ~ I think it is the episode that I saw on Sunday ~ but who cares, I will watch it again!! (I know ~ I need to get out more ~ tee hee!!). Have nice evening XXX