The Good ~ The Bad ~ And the down right Crazy!!

Today has been one of those strange days ~ that happen every now and again! A bit of a mix of good things, bad things and a small drop of 'crazy' just to keep me on my toes!!

The day started well ~ I have not been working today, so after dropping the children at school ~ I had the day to myself!! I went shopping ~ didn't spend too much ~ but bought myself a much needed new handbag!! My current one is a bit small and a bit battered around the edges ~ so I bought myself a nice new (bigger!!) one ~ so I can now carry even more junk around with me tee hee!!!!!

I met up with one of my friends for lunch and then we went to a new retail park which has opened not far from where we live ~ to look at the new shops!!! I was very boring and visited Halfords ~ to look at the roof boxes for the car ~ I am having a small crisis ~ as we are due to travel to my Mums on Sunday and I am starting to doubt that I will fit Me ~ the Kids and ALL the presents and the luggage in the car!!! SO ~ a roof box may still be needed! They were very reasonable and Halfords will fit them for you ~ I just have to decide whether I can justify the cost for something that may not be used that often!! My other option is to streamline what we are taking ~ or leave the kids here (Tee Hee ~ only joking!!!!).
I have had a really great day ~ and it was much needed ~ I have well and truly started to wind down before christmas ~ and as of 12.30 tomorrow lunchtime ~ I will be officially finished work for 2008 ~ YIPPPPPPEEEEEEE!!

While I was out shopping I had a phonecall from one of the people that I used to childmind for ~ telling me that her husband has left her and their young son (won't go into too much detail here ~ as it is a personal matter!) ~ which made me really sad. It is always sad when a marriage ends ~ under whatever circumstances ~ but a week before Christmas is not a good time ~and with a young child involved ~ it is so hard!! I feel for them both and I hope that they somehow find a way back to what they both once had!! I think that 2008 has held the world record for the amount of couples that I know (married or otherwise!) ~ that have seperated ~ it has not been a good year in that way !

Tomorrow is the last day of school for my two little stars ~ so they have gone into hyperactive overdrive ~ the excitement levels here are unbelievable!! IT IS A TAD CRAZY RIGHT NOW!!
They have both suddenly become soooo excited about Christmas and at one point I thought that they were both going to explode ~ when the excitement got too much!

Lauren always has her hair done in a 'Christmassy' way for the last day of Christmas term ~ so we had a trial run ~ here is her Christmas hair do for 2008!!


Tinsel hairband (bought from Claires accessories ~ not lovingly made by me ~ tee hee!!)

Lauren was suitably impressed ~ so we have to make sure that we recreate the look in the morning!!

I have so much to sort out before we leave on Sunday ~ the first job of the night is to clean out the fish (oh no!!) ~ so I had better go and start that much hated job!

Hope you have had a good day ~ hopefully without the bad and the crazy! XXX