A better day today.........

After my small rant yesterday ~ I would just like to say Thank You ~ for all your kind comments and your e mails ~ I do appreciate it very much!! I have sent everyone that asked for access to my other blog an invite ~ and anyone who would like to read what is over there ~ just e mail me and I will send you an invite!!



Anyway ~ I am feeling better about the whole thing today and I am no longer in a bad mood ~ I told you that it doesn't last that long!!!



I still have my poor little lad off school ~ he was not feeling that good on Monday and has had a sore neck, sore throat ~ headache and aches all over ~ so I have kept him off ~ he just wanted to sleep the last few days ~ so it was hardly fair to send him back to school ~ but, all being well ~ I would hope that he will be back at school tomorrow ~ as he is in Year 6, I don't want him to miss too much time off ~ it being his last year in Primary school and all that!!

The weigh in tonight was uneventful ~ another week staying the same! It just goes to show you ~ that if you don't eat enough ~ for some reason you don't lose weight!!! As I was ill during the last week I didn't eat for about 3 days ~ so was expecting to have at least lost something!!!!! But no ~ nothing this week ~ ah well ~ onwards I go!!!!!!!



I mentioned on my other blog about Lauren having a dance workshop at the weekend ~ it is with a team of choreographers who have worked with Kylie Minogue, Robbie Williams , Madonna, Blue and Girls Aloud.........so as you can imagine ~ excitement is a slight under exaggeration of how Lauren is at the moment ~ she is so excited that I think she may well explode before the weekend!!! (ha ha)!!! I will update you after the weekend of how it went ~ the weekend includes lyrical jazz, hip hop, tv dance, musical theatre and hair and make up tuition ~

Lauren already thinks that she is a member of Camp Rock and High School Musical ~so I get the feeling that things will be a little bit worse after the weekend tee hee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you click HERE you can read all about the workshops!

Well ~ I splashed out after my weigh in tonight and bought myself a new omelette pan ~ so I am just off to try it out! (Keep your ears open ~ you may just hear my smoke alarm in a few minutes time ha ha !!!!).

Thank you once again blog friends for your support yesterday ~ I know that when I need it ~ you are always there and never fail to give great advice and kind words!!!
You are all truly wonderful!! XXXXXX

With my hand on my heart............

I am totally and utterly fed up today ~ I don't often have days like these ~ but I am in a totally bad mood ~ I hate the fact that it is cold, wet ~ grey and dark ~ we had snow earlier ~ which didn't stay but just turned into that awful cold wet sludge yuck yuck yuck!!!!! You see ~ IT IS ONE OF 'THOSE' DAYS!!!!!!

I am by nature usually a happy go lucky kind of person ~ I just bimble along ~ get battered about by life a bit ~ but all in all ~ I stay happy ~ stay positive and just get on with life!!!

Unfortunately where my children are concerned ~ I am very protective (as I am sure most mothers are!!!!) ~ and things that affect them ~ things that upset them ~ affect and upset me too!!!!!

There is a certain person who has peed me off ~ who I wish (with my hand on my heart....) ~ would just disappear ~ hopefully into a big black hole!!!! ~

All of my bloggy friends that have access to my other blog ~ which is a private blog ~ can pop on over to Look Behind My Smile and you can read the full unedited story!!!

Any of my regular readers who do not have access to the private blog, please e mail me ~ via my profile page and leave me the e mail address that you use to log into blogger ~ and I will e mail you an invite to the other blog ~ so you too can feel my pain ha ha ha !!!!!!

I have some things to post here later (please come back again ~ they are happy ~ nice things ~ I promise!!!!!!) ~ but for now I am off to have a moan ~ and kick something!!!!!
XXX

My Stars.......on stars!!

Dan and Lauren are sitting watching the TV, when there is a story on about space ~

Lauren ~ "Is that a shooting star Dan?"

Daniel ~ "Yeah, maybe, or it could be a meteor"

Lauren ~ "What is a meteor ~ is it a star?"

Daniel ~ "Sort of, I think ~ Dunno!!"

Lauren ~ "So it's a star........."

SHORT SILENCE.........

Lauren ~ "Did you know that stars are not yellow?"

Daniel ~ "No, they are silver ~ "

Lauren ~ "No, they are not.................they are all sorts of colours ~ blue, green, red, orange......"

Daniel ~ "No, .........how do you know they are all colours?"

Lauren ~ "We saw them remember, the other night ~ when we were walking back from dancing ~ they were flashing in the sky!!!!!"

ANOTHER SHORT SILENCE!!

Daniel " (laughing!!) ~ That was a plane Lauren..............!!"

Lauren "Oh yeah ........ "

".........................What colour are they then?"

(DANIEL GETS UP AND WALKS OFF ~ I THINK HE'D HAD ENOUGH OF STARS HA HA !!!)

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The 'Lurgy' that I had towards the end of last week and over the weekend has now moved on ~ and I am feeling alot better............................Sadly I seem to have passed it on to my sweet little son, who woke up this morning feeling not so good ~ he feels sick, has a headache and a sore throat and aches all over (yeah, sounds very familiar!!) ~ so I dosed him up and he has been in bed most of the day ~ I am waiting for Lauren to come down with it next. We are a very generous family ~ we do like to share Tee Hee!!!!!!! But, seriously ~ I feel for my poor little chap ~ if he feels half as bad as I did ~ it was not nice!!

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I was very proud of myself yesterday ~ I am ever so slightly DIY challenged ~ I can't even put up a shelf and hanging a picture is a serious job!!! Well, I bought a shelf system that goes between the bath and the ceiling and is used to store all the shampoo and bath oil etc ~ all neatly and safely!!
It took me quite a while to put it together ~ but I was soooooo good and followed the instructions to the letter (after I found them in English ~ they were in 68 different languages I swear!!!!) ~ and voila ~ it was done ~ and before I knew it, all the shampoo and bath roomy kind of things were on there ~ all stored and it all looked wonderful!!
I was even more proud of myself when I went in the bathroon before bed, and the thing was still there ~ still looking great ~ I decided that I was now a DIY DIVA after all .....................................
WELL..........off to bed I went AND at about 4 this morning, there was an almighty bang and crash and clang (you get the picture!!) ~ I shot bolt upright in bed, thinking that we were being burgled (by some very noisy burglers....) ~(Dan and Lauren both appeared in the hall too!!) then shot out of bed to see what was going on (I am not brave ~it's just the Ex ~ Police Officer in me coming out ha ha !!!!) ~ once I had checked the living room and made sure that everything was ok ~ I ventured into the bathroom and there was the storage shelf thingy in about 50 pieces in the bath ~ surrounded by all the shampoo and bits and pieces ~ SO ~ I am not a DIY DIVA after all ~ the shelf thingy is ruined ~ the shampoo and stuff is all over the place ~ and I am off to Argos tomorrow to buy a unit that goes under the sink (ready made ~ I just have to bring it home and stick it under the sink!!!) ~ I am so useless ~ it's quite sad really ...........never mind, my Mother always said that everybody is good at something ~ AND ~ when I have worked out what that SOMETHING is ~ I will let you know TEE HEE!!!!

Smiley cake Sunday

As I have spent most of the last two days on the sofa ~ feeling a bit ill and all that!!

When Lauren asked me this morning if we could make cakes, I thought that I had better muster up the energy and help her!

Luckily we had a cake making kit in the cuboard (better to take the easy option....thank you Jane Asher for your wonderful cake kits!!!).



So here to cheer up your Sunday ~ are some Smiley face cakes!!



Um, Yeah!!! Not sure what this one is meant to be???? I think those are ears on the side....

and the smarties are eyes and the nose (maybe????) .....anyway ~ let's move on ha ha !!


Ah, that's better ~ apparently Lauren made this one for me........NICE EYEBROWS!! (I have just checked in the bathroom mirror and my eyebrows are nothing like that HONESTLY!!!).

This is the one that Lauren made for Daniel..............Nice moustache going on there!!!

And this is the one that Lauren made for herself......(I am jealous actually ~ as I wanted this one Tee Hee!!!!!!)

12 smiley face cakes ~ (there are only 10 now ~ because some bad person ate two of them.....ok, so it was me.......BUT ~ may I just add that I have been ill and haven't eaten anything for 3 days ......... that's my story anyway and I am keeping to it BAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!).

Hope you are having a smiley face Sunday too!!

Love and hugs XXX

A bit better.........and oh......those jeans!!!

I am feeling a little bit better today ~ still not 100% ~ but a bit better!
I took everyones advice and drank lots of fluids and had a bath and an early night ~ and after a very long lie in this morning ~ I eventually dragged myself out of bed and managed to take Lauren to ballet classes!
I then came home and went back to lying on the sofa ~ under my quilt again!!

I am glad to report that by about 3pm today ~ I was alot better and decided (for some mad reason) ~ that I should sort through some of the clothes that I still have in my bedroom that no longer fit me!

I found the jeans that I wore when I went away on holiday last April ~ just before I started to diet ~ and decided to see what they fit like now ~ I haven't tried them on since I started dieting and they got a little too big ~ so here you go!!!

My jeans from last april ~ and the jeans I had on today........
Trying to show the size difference..........

Lauren wanted to see if she could fit in the old jeans with me ~ and shock horror she could!!

It was a very tight fit ~ they wouldn't zip up and neither of us could breathe ha ha ~ BUT it just made me realise that they were big enough (almost) for the both of us!!!!!

I was actually horrified that they were so big ~ but at the same time it made me realise that I have come quite a long way ~ and on the days where I feel like eating the whole contents of the fridge ~ I should get out these jeans and put them on........that should do the trick ha ha !!!

I must just tell you here ~ that my motivation to lose weight was not for vanity ~ not because nothing fitted anymore and I couldn't get nice clothes ~ not for any other reason than my health!

I saw a programme on TV about weight loss and the impact it has on your health ~ and decided that I owed it to my children ~ to lose the weight and be healthy!

I can truly say that 73 pounds later I feel great (well not at this exact moment ~ as I have the lurgy ha ha !!!) ~ I no longer get out of breathe ~ my knees no longer hurt when I walk up the stairs and I am not tired after a day chasing about after little people!!!

It has been hard ~ I will not deny that ~ and there have been moments where I could have quite happily given up and eaten 300 big macs ~ but I haven't ~ I am still plodding on ~ and 8 months after I first started ~ my goal is in sight.............so, if you want to lose weight ~ my advice would be 'go for it' ~ you can do it ~ there are highs and lows ~ it is not always easy .......but if I can do it ~ anyone can........... (please don't think I am preaching here ~ I am no angel ~ and no expert ~ I just follow the principle of eat less ~ eat healthily and exercise more ~ nothing else!!!)

Well, before I go back to lying on the sofa again ~( this feeling ill comes and goes ha ha !) ~ I just wanted to say a big 'Thankyou' for all your kind words and wishes ~ it really has meant alot to me!

Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to spend the whole day 'OFF' the sofa Tee Hee!! XXXX