people out there

I have been doing this blog for just over a week now and i am having great fun with it ,the only trouble is i have had only a few comments.These have come from my good pal len and from my hubby so if anyone else out there just happens upon this please leave me a hello

Anyway me being a woman decided i needed to put a bit of my lovely gold paint on one part of my hall wall, just to see what the effect would be. I can now see what it will be like when i finally finish.It does as the tin says for a change and really does give a suede effect.The only problem being it is not that easy to put on .If you are a woman you will get the idea ,if you can imagine giving yourself a body scub ,then that is what it is like and feels the same.

well i like things to be a bit different and my hall cetainly will be, so far everybody has loved it and can't wait untill i finally get my backside into gear and finish .Then i can sit back and let andy do his stuff with the tiles for the floor.Alas poor andy, another of his weekends taken up again,Tommorow i am dragging him off to look at carpets for the stairs and landing.

Boring painting

Well i can safely say i am sick of the site of paint ,every spare minute seems to be me with a paint brush in my hand.The good thing is i have now finished glossing all the dark brown and have now started on the cream gloss .I have the walls and ceilings yet to do .

So andy and i decided to take a break this weekend and are off to brugge ,neighbours are looking after Tyson for us so we are off for a bit of parenting break without kids or pets (yippee i can hardly wait. Next weekend i have been promised Alton towers or Thorpe park, it will be so nice to go on all the rides without having to worry about the height restrictions.

 

Depressed dog

Well we got back from the airport yesterday minus the kids,and got the usual hello from the dog.The only problem was for him (no kids), Poor tyson he has had a bad week, first of all his two friends who he plays with every morning have moved a couple of miles down the road and so we are not going to see them on our daily morning walk and now the kids who he adores have gone and left him.Well anyone who owns a dog know, they have there routine and are not as dumb as some people believe .

Never the less we were saved today , i took him out as soon as i got back from work and tried to play but he was not that amused (i am not a dog, and don't play half as well as his friends)
Just as i was giving up with the ball another boxer arrived on the field she is called kye and is a white bitch it was friendship on site and quite happily played for the next half an hour ,ball cme out,tug of war was played ,chase was played then we had two very slobbery and drooling boxers on our hands .Great fun was had by all and my dog looks like he has a new playmate, plus she has just moved in down the road from london

Anyway enough about me being a sad dog owner (dogs are like kids they become part of the family).

jamie and stephanie fly the nest

Well today was the day Jamie and Stephanie went off  to Portugal to stay with their Nan and grandad.It was not as straight forward as usual but Andy explains it on(another day another girl) much better than I would.I am still not impressed I only hope they get it right when I go to New York in October.

While we were on our way up to the airport a bomb disposal van passed us.
What the kids said:-

Stephanie:- What was that?
Mum and Dad together:-A bomb disposal unit.
Jamie:- oh no!
Stephanie:- what's a bomb disposal?
Mum and Dad together:- Nothing for you to worry about.
Stephanie  to Jamie:- what's a bomb disposal?
Jamie to Stephanie:-You don't watch the bill do you!.

Needless to say Stephanie is still clueless.

All packed

Well it's sunday up bright and early with tyson,quickly do some last minute shopping for the kids to take with them tommorow.I got the bags down to pack cd players with new batteries, gameboy for jamie ,tickets ,passports etc.  We packed a little ,then feeling guilty about by babes going away for three weeks ,i decide to take them to the flicks to see "two brothers " what a great film i'm slightly biased as tigers are one of my favourite animals.

The kids totaly enjoyed the film and i now not feeling so guilty go back to packing.WE are now all done ,bags waiting in the lounge ready for the morning .Jamie takes tyson out for me so now i can get on with cooking the dinner,tommorow will be a busy day(lets hope we have better luck than Amber did with her attempt)luckily we are not going ryanair,the kids are going british airways solo.

so beautiful

Besides my children who i think are both beautiful in their own ways.There is nothing better than living near a wood and the sea.I got up early as i do most mornings and tyson and i headed for our morning walk,this started at 7.45 this morning.
Where i live it is only 5minutes walk from the water it was beautiful this morning the tide was in and there was a flat calm.There was the early morning dew on the grass and only tyson and i on the beach(heaven),there is something very tranquill at this time of the morning,after walking along the shore we finish up walking home through the woods.The world and all the pressure of life seem so far away on our walks ,i feel one of the lucky ones to live near such a  lovely place .
As i walk through the front door reality takes over again and i am once again trasformed into the hectic life i lead(big sigh).

never enough hours

Thursday is always a busy day for me,besides doing my normal job of dealing with customer complaints i then have to go and clean one of my houses, after that it's straight to school to pick stephanie up,then come home pick jamie up and take him to do his kumon(extra english lessons). If i am lucky i can get home about 4.30, it is then time to sort kids out and cook some tea as well as take the dog out and feed him.
Andy has a rugby meeting so get him out of the way and do a little painting.It was dog training tonight but as i havn't done any practice this week i really don't feel like being told off tonight so i'm not going ,so it's now 9pm and i am just about to sit down, but first get the kids sorted out and hopefully of to bed, then i may just put my feet up and try and grab my 3rd cup of coffee of the day.
Why is it us mum's never have enough hours in the day  

computer

I have'nt been here for a few days as my computer decided to fall out with me,or me fall out with the computer.
anyway for my pal len all i can say is (READY STEADY GO).

30 minutes later and i'm still waiting where are you mate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well i have at long last started to gloss the old paintwork but it's going to be a slow process as i'm back to doing all my jobs now.

So back to the computer i have borrowed one of the kids and will get mine fixed when they go away.It's a good job we have 3 computers in our house,and jamie will be pleased as he will be getting mine when i get it back from being mended .I will just have to get used to having a smaller screen again. 

weekends

I had to go to town with jamie saturday to get some new trainers for going away. I don't know how this child seems to go through so many pairs.We seem to average about a pair a month.Luckily it did not take long and we had time to indulge in a mcdonald's.Stephanie had gone to her friend Amy's and won't be back till sunday evening.It always seems to happen that we can only get rid of one child, how is that?never both of them normally together. But then i do in only a weeks time.Please don't get me wrong i totaly adore both of my children but my house is always so hectic it is nice once in a while for andy and i to have the place to ourselves or to go out without getting a sitter in.

gowing old

I saw this and thought i should share it all with you.

We do not stop playing because we grow old.
We grow old because we stop playing.

So for those of you out there who are over 40 keep this in mind and it really works,jamie who is 13 thinks this is true as his mates of the same age think i'm a pretty cool mum.( yipee i have not become a fumpy old mum yet).

steph's swimming

stephanie has been going swimming with the school every afternoon for the last 3 weeks,so to give myself a break today i decided to surprise her and help walk them up to the pool.It was a nice day and it was only about a mile each way.
Well her little face beamed as she saw me and i got one of her special hugs,it was definately worth the surprise.Her swimming has got so much better so she will have great fun when she goes out to mum and dads on the 26th.My mum and dad live on a lovely boat and just hop around the med (what it's like to be pensioners )it also helps when my dad used to be a captain and has had something to do with the sea for most of his life.So the kids are off to spend three glorious weeks with them without mum and dad and get no doubt spoiled by the grandparents.With a bit of luck if the hall is going ok andy and i will go off somewhere to.

spindles

40 spindles later on the banisters in the hall and i have now finished them(yippee).So i only have 5 door frames and 6 skirting boards left to do then i can start to paint.Today is a good day i feel as if i have really achieved something and there is light at the end of the tunnel.What's even better is it is wednesday so it's up the pub with the girls for an hour so i had better get my skates on and muster up the kids

bargain find

Last week jamie's school had a book fair,well being a good mum we popped along and came home laden with books.I spotted a beautiful illustrated book filled with jewels and scripts.jamie pleading with me to buy it promising, that if i bought it he would read lots more.How could i resist that, the book was priced at £17.99 but got it for a bargin at £5.00 later showing it to a friend who loves dragons we look up to see if we could get her a copy.Well the book is no longer in print and when looking on amazon it would cost you £64.95.Do i now save him the book for christmas or put it away and keep it safe?
as for the diy i'm still stripping paint.

And what the husband says Another day another girl

bad day

well first thing i need to do is to appologise to my hubby andy, bless him what i didn't put in yesterday was while i was doing the paint stripping ,he did all the ironing for me and helped pull the carpet up he reminds me.
well today stephanie decides while brushing her teeth that she is going to faint,then andy has a dodgy stomach,i'm signed off work for a week and poor jamie is the only one well enough so he goes to school.so inbetween dashing to the loo i have andy filling in all the cracks and sanding down. Well he's at home he can help out.Anyway lets hope i get them all of to their respective places tmmorow.then it will be just me and the dog.

things going wrong

I got up ready for the dog show looked out the window and yep it was raining so went back to bed.I had allready done dinner for when we got back so that was done ,so andy and i hit b& q for more floor tiles for the hall,did some more rubbing down of wood and pollyfiller.Then i decided to have a brainwave much to andy's (oh god she's of again) i start to take up the carpet on the stairs.not such a good idea as it was 6pm and everyone wanted to sit down an relax, but being a typical woman i had to do it there and then.Never the less carpet is now up and i can do some more paint stripping,i think i had better start that tommorow.

1st dog show

7am came, we all got up stephanie and her friend amy very reluctantly as they decided to go to bed at 11pm,picnic was made, tyson was ready and we set off.The weather was on our side as tyson's not that keen on the rain,we got clear points on our down stay and clear on the sit,but then as it is his first time at this level it all went downhill.The main problem being was where the show was,we often go walking there and he just thinks of it as playzone(with a capital play).He did his stuff some of it ok but basically like a young child the consentration didn't last but hey there is another one tommorow and another picnic to organise friends to meet up with and hopefully good weather again.

tyson

let me introduce you all to tyson,he is my three year old red and white boxer dog.Among all the other things i do we go to obedience to shows. thursday nights are training nights,well anyone who has a dog knows how hard some dogs are to train let alone to competition level.So we practice all week get the exercise down to a fine art at home and of course will he do it when we get to class (no)he is worse than the kids and you could just throttle him,he has two shows this w/end not that i think at the moment he will behave and do the things he's meant to, but at the end of the day he is our family pet and it's a great family day out so please wish us luck

DIY

Have you ever started a job and wish you hadn't,well i did that this w/end.Having a hubby in the building trade i decided to help out and start stripping wallpaper in the hall.Well of i went steamer in hand and half the plaster came off.Not what i needed to happen anyway the building inspector came round today and yes i need the walls re-plastered.so being the good wife and mum i am i started to strip the paintwork no probs besides it seems to take ages and i have much better things i could be doing with my day off.I have little time for myself as any mum will know holding down three jobs two kids and a dog,but hey any mums a supermum.anyway it's kids tea then i become a taxi service to tae-kwon-do, the only good thing about that is a few of us mums manage to go to the pub for a quick drink while they are there.