What are you doing this evening??

.........I am smiling (for a change ~ see proof below!!) ~ the childminding children all went on time ~ and it is very peaceful and quiet here at the moment ~ no arguing ~ no shouting or telling of tales..............


The reason for this peace is this..............Daniel is lying on my bed (please excuse the jacket and my hairdryer in the background ~ I am so messy ha ha !!)...........he is watching the James Bond Movie ~ The world is not enough ~ he is glued to the TV..........(nothing new there!!) ~ I think he must be using the PS2 to watch it on (instead of the DVD player ~ hence the controller!!?? ~ who knows!)
My other little devil......oops I meant angel ~is sitting in the livingroom watching an old film called Shark boy and Lava girl (don't ask ~ it is not one of the classics but Lauren loves it ~ tee hee!!) ~ here she is wearing her 3D glasses ~ and eating some after eight mint thingies (which I am not allowed to have ~ boo hoo!) ~ and looking very cute!!??
SO ~ this means that I have some peace and quiet ~ to sit here and catch up with some blogging!
I should be ironing (there is a mountain to do!) ~ or cleaning the bath or something else like that ~ BUT NO ~ I am sitting here ~ enjoying the lack of arguments between my children and thanking who ever the wise person was that invented DVDs ~ for giving me at least a few hours of quiet ~ before hostilities resume again (siblings arguing ~ don't ya just love it??)
Hope you are having a peaceful Tuesday too ~
love and hugs, Tabitha XXXX

A LITTLE BIT OF SEX...........AND THE CITY!!!!!

After another busy busy day ~ here is how I am spending my evening.......

Lying on the sofa in my Pjs with my slippers on (it is getting cold here people and I don't like the cold ha ha!!).............(by the way ~ please note the LONG Pjs ~ after almost freezing to death the other night ~ I decided that they were needed!!!).


Watching this DVD......which I treated myself to today!!!!!

All that is missing is a bottle of wine (or 5 ha ha !!!) and a huge bar of fruit and nut chocolate!!!

BUT ~ they are not joining me on the sofa (more's the pity tee hee!!) ~ instead I am sharing my evening with a diet coke and a tuna salad!!!

I love love love Sex and the city ~ the titles are rolling the music is starting ~ so bye bye for now my friends ~ time to catch up with all my SATC friends that I have missed so much!!! XXXXXX

Help I cannot sleep!!!!!!!

It has been a busy few days ~ the children are back at school ~ which means we are back to the term time routine (which I hate!!!) ~ making lunches ~ cleaning shoes ~ ironing uniforms and doing homework (the kids of course....not me!!) ~ we are also on a time limit in the mornings ~ as we have to drive to the school and get to lessons before the bell goes at 8.50am ~ so every morning at the moment is a little bit mad!!

It would be alot less stressful if my sweet lovely children actually got up when they were asked, got showered when they were asked ~ got dressed when they were asked (get the picture) ~ but they don't !!!!!!!!!!!!!

The mornings are a rush of me shouting (tee hee) ~ and usually being ignored and rushing about!! Roll on half term in October!!

Matters are not being helped at the moment by the awful weather we are still having (I know that it is nothing compared to the hurricanes etc in other places!!) ~ but I just hate getting soaked day after day and I am not liking the wet and wind swept look at all ~ it is doing nothing for my hair ha ha !!!!

I also seem to have lost the ability to sleep this last week. There was a time when I would lay my head on the pillow and the next thing that I knew the alarm was going off the next morning!
BUT for the last week or so ~ I have been going to bed and lying there ~ just not able to sleep. I could understand if there was something on my mind (in which case I do usually lie awake!!) ~ but there is nothing at all on my mind ~ so it is a mystery!! I got so fed up the other night that I actually got up at 1am and made the childrens packed lunch and then went back to bed ~ this was not the best idea as I was exhausted when the alarm went off at 6am!
Any one with any ideas of how I can bring the sleep back into my life ~ then let me know ~ all suggestions gratefully received!!!!

The rain has also killed our carefully planted and much looked after carrots ~ I think that they have got totally water logged in their pot and are not looking well at all! The children haven't noticed yet ~ so maybe I can come up with a cunning plan to save that situation!!!????

Weigh in day tomorrow and this week has been the hardest so far ~ the smell of freshly baking bread in the supermarket on Sunday morning nearly sent me totally crazy! I must admit that I nearly gave in to temptation and bought some ~ but I didn't ...... the diet angel won over again (thank goodness).

Lauren went back to her dance classes last night ~ she did her tap class and her new modern class which she loves. On Wednesday she has hip hop classes and on Saturday is Ballet, so it is all go. Dan also goes back to Judo on Sunday ~ so we are going to be quite busy!!

I am totally loving driving the new car ~ the bunny hopping has finished, I have the hang of driving it now ~ it is still very quiet and I keep thinking that we have stalled ~ but apart from that it is great ~ I actually enjoy driving on the school runs now (I must be mad!!) ~ the children like to argue about what seat they are going to sit in, but they have a choice of 6 ~ so they are taking it in turns to sit in each of them!

I only have about 20 pages left of Breaking Dawn and I am so sad that I am at the end ~ I don't want it to finish. I noticed online that the film is out in November (not sure whether that is the UK too, or just the US) ~ I cannot wait to see it ~ so that's something to look forward to!!! XXXX

Just typical!!!

I sat here last night in my pj's (I know ~ I am very sad ha ha !!!) ~ all snuggled up on the sofa ~ with the fire going ~ all warm and toasty ~ ready and waiting for Ugly Betty to start!! I have missed this show so much over the Summer ~ while it was side lined for Big Brother (which was a big load of rubbish!!).

At last 9pm came and the titles started ~ oh how I have missed you Ugly Betty ~ the show started ~ and then DARKNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It took me a minute to work out that the power had gone ~ I thought that maybe using the fire had caused a fuse to click off ~ but it was soooooo dark ~ and when I looked out the curtains ~ there were no street lights ~ no lights in the other houses ~ it looked like there was no power anywhere in our little village ~ probably thanks to the storm we were having!!!

So, I missed Ugly Betty (boo hoo) ~ I will have to try and watch a catch up episode !!
In my boredom I went to bed (with a torch) and read quite a bit of Breaking Dawn ~ by torch light ~ I haven't done that since I was a child ~ reading under the covers with a torch (although I didn't have my head under the covers last night ha ha !!!!!).

There was still no power when I finally went to sleep at 11pm .

It is back on now, thank goodness ~ if you saw the state of my hair this morning ~ I would not be going anywhere ~ without the use of my precious hair straighteners!!!!!

Well, I am just off out to clean out the old car and take all our stuff out of it ~ I have to collect the new one at 10.30am ~ and all 3 of us are excited!!

All I have to do now is get used to having a 7 seater and of course driving a different car (no problems there ~ I have driven lots of different cars over the years) ~ it will be the parking of said new 7 seater that will be the problem ~ I am the worlds worst parker EVER ~ ah well ~ we will just have to park at the very top of the multi storey for a while, when we go shopping ~ where no one else parks (tee hee!!!) . I am sure I will get the hang of it eventually...........I will hopefully be back later with some photos of my new baby (car that is!!!)XXX