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

Bye Bye FiFi ~ Hello Bella!!!

We were very excited this morning ~ I had to brave the rain and clear out the old car ~ which we had affectionately called FiFi over the years (it is a Renault ~ therefore French and the kids decided that it was a good name!!).........

Then it was time to head off and collect the new car......

Here are some final photos of FiFi ~ as we were braving the awful rain this morning!!!




The children were quite funny ~ they have become quite attached to the old car and were sad to see it go!! I am afraid that I cannot get emotional over a car ~ although it has done us well over the years!!

And (drum roll please.......) ~ here is our new car........................................

My nice shiny black car!! I did want to call the new car Edward (as I am now a totally addicted fan of the Twilight books!!) ~ but as all our cars are usually girls (tee hee )~ we have called her Bella!!!!!! (I know ~ we are a very strange family ~ we always name our cars !!!!!!)

So far I have not driven it far ~ we bunny hopped out of the garage forecourt (ha ha ) ~ then I had to go to the petrol station (where I had some trouble getting the petrol cap off !!) ~ then we drove straight home (about 4 miles!!) ~ so I am not used to it yet!! I kept putting the wind screen wipers on instead of the indicator and when we came to a junction, I thought that we had stalled as the car was sooooo quiet!! We are going out a bit later to town (where I have to park the thing tee hee!!!) ~ and I will have a bit of a drive around to get used to it!!

I am very pleased with it and the children are very excited about it all ~ they wanted to stay out sitting in it when we came home!!!! I will update you all later on how the parking goes!!! 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

YES!!!

The bank agreed the loan ~ I collect the car tomorrow morning at 10.30am ~ I am so so excited!!

I am meant to be posting my breandas photo challenge photos today ~ but I haven't done the post yet or uploaded the photos ~ so I will be doing that later!!!

PS ~ did I tell you I am excited ???????????? YIPPEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! XXX

Welcome to the weekend of madness!!!

Today was the start of the weekend of total dance madness. Lauren had her dress rehearsal ~ which was excellent ~ all the cute little girlies (and boys) dancing about ~ it was so sweet!!
I had my camera all ready to take lots of exciting photos ~ and guess what ~ the camera battery was not actually in the camera (ha ha ) ~ it was at home here charging ~ so no photos I am afraid!! I promise that there will be loads of photos of the dress rehearsal and the show tomorrow and sunday!! Lauren was a little star ~ dancing away and looking very pleased with herself ~ she was very sweet!!
Tomorrow we have to be at the dance venue at midday and the show ends at 9.30pm ~ BOY ~ it is going to be a very long day ~ infact it will be a very long weekend ~ as it is the same on Sunday!! I will not be doing alot this weekend ~ apart from this dance show!! On Saturday night Daniel and I will be in the audience watching Lauren and the show ~ but on Sunday I have offered to help out and my offer was gratefully accepted, I do not know what I will be doing ~ something backstage I would think ~ there is so much to do ~ hair ~ make up ~ costumes ~ making sure everyone goes on at the right time!! I don't mind what I do ~ it will be a bit of fun!!
I actually love doing things like this ~ I loved dancing when I was little and that feeling of being part of something ~ and I don't mind one bit that it is taking up a whole weekend ~ not if it makes my little girl happy!!!

Just as a little bit of fun ~ I was sent this via e mail from my sister today I have tried it about 5 times and each time it has come out correct ~ see what you think!! You will need a calculator (if you are rubbish at math like me ha ha !!!!) ~
It is called the age calculator and will be able to tell you your age ~ so here goes......

First of all pick the number of times that you'd like to eat out each week ~ more than 1 but less than 10 .

Multiply this number by 2.

Then add 5.

Multiply it by 50

If you have had your birthday already this year, then add 1758.
If you haven't had your birhday yet ~ add 1757

Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.

You should have 3 digits left.

The first digit is the original number you chose (ie ~ how many times you would like to eat out!!) and the second 2 numbers are your age!! (oh yes they are!!!)

2008 is the only year that this will work ~ so pass this on while you still have the chance!!!

Hope that keeps you wondering how it works ~ just like me (tee hee!!)

I will try and get on to post something over the weekend ~ between trying to grab a quick bite to eat and getting some sleep!! ~ if not, there will be lots of pictures next week XXXXXX