My camping hell....!

Doesn't look too bad here does it..? This was probably the only five minutes when the sun actually came out and it finally stopped raining. Wasn't exactly my dream weekend break but we did have some good laughs and I think I would do it again......maybe!

Happy Fathers Day Dad!

I am such a lucky girl to have a daddy like you - you are a lovely, kind, loving and gentle man and I am lucky enough to have you as my dad. I miss you lots but will see you very soon. Speak to you later - love and hugs xxxx

Hurrah - it's the weekend..!

Joe and Izzy are only very happy that it's the weekend and there's no school for a couple of days. They are also going to sleep overr at Aunty Helen's tomorrow night while Ellie May gets to sleep at Nanny and Grandad's so this weekend involves a very late night and lots of junk to eat. We are also very excited to get rid of the kids so we are having a load of people round for a big dinner party tomorrow night where we can make as much noise as we want and stay up really late cos we can both lie in on Sunday morning.

Joe finally got his Silver Merit Award!

Well he has finally done it - he has got his Silver Merit Award Certificate. He's very pleased with himself and rightly so and I am very proud of him. He works hard most of the time although whether he will continue to do so is another matter entirely. There are only five weeks left of term and he has realised there is no way he can get the ultimate Gold Award so doesn't think there is any point in pushing himself anymore. Fair point I guess and shows some kind of intellectual reasoning to have come to that conclusion and deserves an award in itself!

Shall I cut my hair....?

This is the burning question at the moment - do I chop it all off like I usually do about now when growing my hair, or do I persevere and try and get that flowing mane of curls that I've been wanting for as long as I can remember. To cut or not to cut, that is the question. Does the hair go - you decide....?

Joe went on a very Tudor school trip...!

Joe went on his school trip to Sulgrave Manor today as part of his Tudor project at school. He had to take a Tudor packed lunch - basically a miserable lunch wrapped in a piece of muslin. He seemed to enjoy it though which is the main thing and out of his spending money he chose to buy Izzy and Ellie a present each which I thought was the sweetest thing. Maybe he does love his little sisters after all - he's just doing a very good job of hiding it!

What a nice weekend...

It's been glorious this weekend so we had loads of time to spend in the garden enjoying our new decking. Here are my three little cherubs playing chefs on the deck with a bowl, a wooden spoon and some shredded pieces of a cardboard box. Who needs a Playstation when you have got cardboard..?

Am I secretly married to Gordon Ramsay.....?

I think I might be which is quite good cos I fancy Gordon Ramsay in a strange, dirty deeds in the kitchen kind of way.

Isabelle Rose

This is my middle child, Isabelle Rose. She is gorgeous and beautiful and takes the best photos ever. This one was taken by my brother-in-law who is an avid photographer and camera bore, I mean buff. He's trying to turn Nathan into one too and so far he is succeeding! He has entered this photo into the Digital Camera Magazine Photographer of the Year competition and I think he should win hands down. Izzy looks so beautiful in this photo and much older than her five years. He's got an even more stunning photo of her that I don't have on my Mac so I shall get him to send it to me and I shall put it here in the near future. Isabelle may take an amazing photo and look serene and angelic but boy, is she currently a stroppy moo who stomps a lot and slams doors if she can't get her own way. Typical woman eh?

Me, my mum and my ickle sister

I love this photo. It's of me, my mum and my baby sister while we are visiting them at their home in the South of France. We have had a few rough patches the three of us and some good old barneys but we still love each other to bits. I miss them something rotten - they are too far away to cuddle when you are feeling crappy and need a shoulder to cry on. Thank goodness for the telephone and seriously cheap phone calls which soften the blow of regular hour long phone chats. I wish they lived round the corner but at least this way I get to go to a beautiful part of France for regular holidays and at the same time I can catch up with the folks I love sooooooo much.

My baby's gone on her first school trip....

This is my youngest, Ellie May, and she has gone on her first school trip today to a local farm. It's great cos it's the first day I have ever had to myself and it's a taste of things to come in September but I didn't half panic when I said goodbye to her this morning! She's small for her age and has speech problems therefore seems much too little to be off enjoying herself for the day without me. She'll be fine and have such fun - it's just me who has been in a flap all day. Actually, I think I'm most worried about the fact I stupidly put her new pale pink shoes on which are probably going to come back filthy and covered in sheep poo!

My family in France

My parents, my sister, brother-in-law and their two children live in the south of France. I miss them something rotten but at least we get to have lots of nice holidays in the sun or near the snow - that is if there is any snow!

Come on Gordon.....

If I can do it mate then it must be easy so pull your finger out and start your own blog!

I can now add photos!

Ok so I have just learnt how to add photos - I'm so excited. Computers freak me out slightly as I have been out of the workplace for so long and have never really had the need to get to grips with them. In fact when I worked last, computers were the size of small cupboards and were only really good for a bit of word processing therefore it's no wonder I am slightly computer phobic! I am now really proud of my IT achievements and my nine year old son will be less ashamed of his silly old mum as he's better at this tinternet stuff than I am!

OK Nath - I've done it!

Well I've finally had a spare few minutes in my mundane but hectic life to get round to this blogging thing. Nathan, my computer literate and IT genius husband, has been going on about blogging and how I should get on with it, for ages so now I have so there you go love of my life - I have finally done it! What the hell I am going to find to write about I do not know. After all I am a housewife and mother of three and spend my days washing or cleaning and doing nothing exciting at all. Maybe I will have to invent some alter ego of mine that gets up to all kinds of hi jinx while the kids are at school. Maybe I'll become Milton Keynes' answer to ElastiGirl from the Incredibles cos she did look hot in that lycra outfit and I could have all kinds of fun if I was that stretchy - Nathan's ultimate fantasy wife. Unfortunately I'm nothing like her - I'm unfit and so inflexible I can't even touch my toes and the lycra would get some interesting comments whilst doing the daily school run. Therefore my mundane life it will have to be - sorry folks!