Boobies!!!!

Conversation between Lauren and me this evening (I was in the bath!).
Lauren "MummmmmmmmmY"
Me "Yes Lauren"
Lauren "How old were you when you got your Boobies"
Me "I can't remember - I think about 13 or 14 - why?"
Lauren"Oh"
Long Pause........
Lauren"You know when you get your Boobies - do you choose which ones you want, or do they just come?"
Me - muffled laughter....."They just come"
Lauren "Oh!!! - but how do I know which ones I will get?"
Me "You don't"
Lauren "OH! - well I won't want any then......"
(wanders out of the bathroom with a disappointed look on her face!!!)

I really do love these meaningful conversations that we have.....I think she thought that you choose them out of a catalogue and they just get delivered.....I wish - I would definitly be ordering a smaller, more perky pair - ha ha !!!

Yet another Wednesday Post!!

It is the middle of the week again ~ I am sure that someone has a finger on the fast forward button of my life ~ time is flying by me at great speed these days!!

Wednesday always means weigh in night and this week I lost another pound ~ so that brings the total lost to 4 stone 6 pounds (62 pounds). It is still moving along in the right direction, but has slowed down alot ~ I will keep going ~ and at this rate I doubt that I will be at target by christmas ~ never mind, I will keep chipping away at it!!

On another note ~ Daniel is going to London on Friday 14thNovember to the Covent Garden Opera House ~ Daniel (and Laurens) school is one of only 6 in the country to be chosen to sing and perform a concert in front of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ~ in honour of his 60th Birthday. The children are singing 'All Through the Night' accompanied by the Royal Philharmonia Orchestra, which Daniel is very excited about. After the concert, Prince Charles will meet some of the children taking part!! I am very excited for Daniel and this is a great opportunity for him and the other children too.



There is a bonfire and fireworks display on Saturday night, which we are hoping to attend. It was meant to be on last weekend, but due to the awful rain (it rained ALL day basically!) ~ it was cancelled. Lauren loves bonfire night ~ I think she likes the fact that you get a drink and a hot dog best (tee hee) ~ but her face is pure delight usually!! I will have to try and remember the camera so I can post some pictures on here!!



There is a website, which a friend told me about ~ the link is here http://www.noradsanta.org/ ~ which apparently tracks Santas progress around the world at Christmas time. I don't think that it gets going until December ~ but I thought that I would share it with you ~ it may be a bit of fun for those of you with children. XXX

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

Sleep ~ beautiful sleep!!

A few of you have asked me if the ability to sleep has returned to my life and the answer is YES and NO!!! I have had a few nights when I have had a really great nights sleep ~ and then there have been a few others when I have just laid there awake ~ watching the hours pass by ~ and believe me ~ it is very annoying!!!

Lauren ~ my sweet little daughter ~ has not helped matters ~ she does not like the dark ~ so she sleeps with a torch under her pillow (ha ha ) ~ so when she wanders through to my room in the middle of the night ~ she shines her torch to light the way ~ the only problem is that she comes to the side of my bed and shines it in my face!!!! This combined with her saying "mum mum mum" tends to make you wake up with a start ~ and no matter how many times she does it ~ I cannot get used to waking up with a torch shining in my face!!!!! She has now been shouted at (tee hee) and told not to do this anymore ~ as mummy does not like it!!! I don't think that she will listen ~ I think that she likes seeing my startled face ~ like a rabbit caught in the headlights ha ha !!! She is turning into a right little madam these last few weeks ~ and we have had a few battles over various things. I have decided that when she reaches the teenage years ~ I am going to book on a round the world cruise ~ for a few years!!!!!!

This week has just flown by ~ infact this whole year has pretty much passed me by in a blur ~ I am still in denial that Christmas is so close!! I have noticed that the Halloween items are appearing in the shops ~ next will be the Christmas cards (then I start to get excited !!!).

I have given myself until Christmas to lose the last 2 stone ~ there is a reason behind this! For the last few years ~ I have promised myself that the New Year would be the year that I lost the weight ~ and each year I have not done it ~ this year I am almost there ~ so I really really want to get to my goal by christmas ~ if this fails ~ then midnight on New Years eve is the cut off point ~ and I cannot let myself down ~ the whole 6 stone just has to been gone ~ so 2 to go and counting!!!!

The new furniture has now all arrived for the livingroom ~ and is piled in the garage ~ I just need to sort out the old furniture now and get the new stuff in place!! I will take some photos ~ so you can see the transformation (or not!!) ~ I also have to buy the next lot of paint for the livingroom ~ so that I can paint the remaining walls and get rid of the awful border that is there at the moment ~ it is driving me CRAZY!!!

No ironing tonight ~ I am going to have a pamper evening ~ I bought a face mask today and I am going to run a nice bath when the kids have gone to bed!! I also need to find another book to read ~ I am a bit lost now ~ without the Twilight books to read ~ maybe I will just go back to the start and read the first one again!!!!

Have a fun evening XXX

Back to school they go!

Today was the childrens first day back at school ~ the pictures are of them both this morning ~ all dressed in their new uniforms and ready to go!!

They both have great teachers this year and have had a nice day ~ they both had so much to tell me when I picked them up this afternoon ~ it was a bit hard to take it all in (ha ha !!) ~ I think that I got it all though!!

In true British weather form ~ the skies opened just as we were on the school run ~ making the drive to school VERY interesting (the wind screen wipers couldn't go any faster!!) ~ it stopped for a bit and then promptly started again when I was on the way back to the car!! Thank god for my rain jacket ~ very unflattering ~ but who cares ~ it kept me semi dry!!

I haven't got as much to do tonight ~ just packed lunches ~ so I won't be standing ironing for 2 hours tonight (thank goodness!!!).

I have just been to get weighed and this week I have lost 2 pounds ~ bringing the total lost to 3 stone and 10 pounds. Another 4 pounds and I will have lost 4 stone ~ I am quite pleased with that!! Only another 2 to go now!!

I have about half of Breaking Dawn left to read and so far I have been unable to put it down ~ it is just wonderful!! Part of me wants to rush through and read as fast as I can ~ to find out what happens in the end ~ but another part wants to read slowly ~ as this is the last book in the series and I don't want it to end!!

I am at the bank in the morning ~ so wish me luck ~ I will let you know how it all goes and hopefully come Saturday we will have the new car!! XXXX

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY!!

FUTURE BLOGGER!!!!!! xxx

Windchime!!

At last Lauren has finished her windchime - it has taken ages and ages, due to the fact that it has hundreds of little beads that have to be stuck onto it and little miss independant had to do it all herself (she actually got it as a present for christmas!!). Now it is finished and she is so proud of herself, it is going to hang in her bedroom window - but before I was allowed to put it there, I had to take some photos for the 'blog thingy' (Laurens words!!).

So here, finally is the long awaited windchime!!

Next up is the paint your own tea set kit - watch this space - it should only take her a few months to complete!! (Tee Hee!!)

Snowy Day

These pictures are of what we woke up to this morning - Snow - quite alot of it aswell. It came as a bit of a shock, I can't ever remember it snowing that heavily here, in the 10 years that we have lived here.

The kids thought that it was great, so we were out quite early messing about in it and throwing snowballs (most of which were aimed at me - ha ha!!). We met up with my friend Jane and her kids and made a snowman in the garden.....unfortunately by about 1pm it had all started to thaw and it has all but gone now.

We are still off on the holiday tomorrow, although we have had to have a bit of a re think about what we will do, and have scoured the internet for some fun things to do if the weather is a bit colder than anticipated.

Hope you all have a nice week, we will be back late Friday, so no doubt I will update the blog on Saturday with all our boring - oops I meant very exciting holiday photos.

Suitcases and Sunglasses

The suitcase is packed - done, zipped up and ready to go!!!
I am definitly not going to unpack it again....whatever isn't in there - tough!! (ha ha).

We have had a pretty quiet day - for a Saturday - Ballet and Tap for lauren this morning and then a bit of last minute shopping for the week away next week. Lauren found some High School Musical pink sunglasses that she just had to have (even though the weather for next week looks like rain, rain and more rain!!). She has had them on constantly since we bought them, and when I went in to kiss her goodnight - she had them on in bed......I convinced her that she really didn't need them on at night, so they are safely stashed under her pillow (which is where all her treasures live - I have no idea how she sleeps on it!).

All that we need to do now is pick the hire car up on Monday morning and then we are off, Devon here we come....

Peace

It is Friday night, the kids are fed, bathed and I have read them more bedtime stories than I thought possible. They are now tucked up in bed, fast asleep (have been for the last hour) - and Lauren in snoring loudly.....

This week has been hectic and at times my 2 children have driven me mad, BUT watching them sleeping peacefully I know that I love them more than life itself and no matter what they do or how they act, that will never ever change!!

LAUREN

My darling daughter was most upset that her brother got a spot on my blog....all of his own...so I promised her that I would do a post just for her......

No words are needed - I thought a photo would be enough!!!!

A bit of ballet and football

At last the much awaited day has arrived, yes, it is the 15th and the day of Laurens ballet and tap exams. She is taking her first ISTD tap exam and her first RAD ballet exam. We had to be up at the crack of dawn to do her hair and make sure her uniform was just so.

Laurens hair takes ages and you have to use at least a whole gel spray and 3000 grips to keep it in place and then put a pretty scrunchy over the top....just to hide all the mess underneath (ha ha)..

She thinks that she has done well and I was outside when they were doing the tap exam and it sounded like they were all in step (in my very unprofessional opinion!), we have to wait a few weeks for all the exams to be marked and then she gets a certificate and a medal or trophy, depending on which exam.

Not wanting to miss a photo opportunity, Daniel went to his friend, Jacks, party at Soccer City and wore his Pompey (Portsmouth) football strip, so I had to take some boy shots of him....just to balance out all the girliness!!!

CUPCAKES AND COOKIES!

Today my 2 little darlings decided that they would like to make cupcakes and cookies...on their own, with NO (yes I said NO), help from me, their darling mother (haha)......they did quite well and the only help I gave them was with the oven (obviously!!!!). The results were not at all bad and they tasted nice too...so well done you two......you did good!!!!