RIP

Looks like the blogging journey is over, the blog has been compromised. Bring me sunshine!

Handbags at 10 paces and random info

My aunt bought Madam a sparkly mini handbag. Needless to say she loves it. Needless to say that she has gone about my jewlery box to fill her beloved bag with. the word magpie springs to mind, anything sparkly and chunky ended up in her handbag. I keep having to hide the handbag before we leave the house to ensure she does not take anything of great value out of the house.

Bought hyacinths today, two of them, good old reminder that spring is round the corner. Am hoping the bulbs I planted with the boy will start making an appearence.

Boy is so fast on the scooter that I cannot catch him running at full pelt. Madam is content with balancing on her scooter whilst I pull her along.

Fish are settling in, we bought a new plant today, our shoal of 5 will soon become larger. They are very relaxing to watch but the sound of the filter makes me want to pee all the time.

Boys party largely organised, ordered the party bags last night, what else would one do on a Sat night? Rock and roll, it isnt.

Madam had a terrible cough today, so much so that she threw up at one point. She then fell asleep on me for an hour. Its magical having her fall asleep on me, the smell of her hair, the sound of her snoring, sent me into a delerious 40 winks. I needed it as she was awake quite a bit of the night.

Whooo hooo

Managed to leave Henfield today in a car. We cheered as the car left the close. We booed quietly when the car slid all over the place.

Have ordered Camerons bday present from us, a bike, have to plan military operation to find the store and lug it back to the car tomorrow, should be fun with all the snow underfoot.

Have managed to buy a shed load of magazines for my forthcoming NHS mini break. Shall mostly be cooking tomm evening to ensure families blood sugar levels do not fall to critical levels. In Madam's case this will entail cooking half a cow, at least.

Er, thats it. Am now off to sort my work life out for tommorrow.....

A Decade

Eva makes a brilliant point on her blog. Summary of a decade. Well, here goes mine. Main highlights are obviously my two children. My husband, who ten years ago insited would never get married and have children. Would love to meet his 31 year old self and show him the future.

The last ten years have been an even split of 5 years of near constant holidays to the holiday from sanity and reality following the birth of two children very close together. They are fab though, easily the highlight of the decade.

There have been qualifications: PADI, PRINCE2 and graduation to the ninja art of project management. Wonderful memories of Eva: convincing her to come out for one drink, which morphed into many drinks and a nightclub, dare I mention the biscuit factory..... drinking on the beach with Erika and Gabi listening to music blasting out of the Concorde bar. Amy dressed up in on my hen night. Inuagural book club. LM being design queen on an interior design day out. Walking on a remote diving island with Stuart, askign him what was moving over in the water, only to find it was a large monitor lizard heading for the beach. Lazy days in Koh Phi Phi, crazy days in Barbados. Beata, Erika, my aunt I in Italy. Dion, Sue, Dan and Kat in a Hummer in Vegas.

Kids making me laugh till I almost cry. Memories of my dad at Alabardos restaurant. Zita speed shopping for all she was worth in between flights. Mama being addicted to mango chutney.....

All in all a decade of decadence but now I am hopefully older and wiser, deffo not the same Barbara as in 2000. Which is the way it should be, no?

Summary

Summary of summaries I am afraid, as I have too many documments / emails to update. I have calculated that apart from this blog, the kids private diary, my private diary, I probably generate / update on average 15 documents a day (this includes private emails). This is simply too many if, you want to remain marginally sane and go to bed before the sandman hits you in the back of the head.

So, here is is: feeling life it sloooly getting back into normal before the days of two very small children. they are now both out of nappies during the day. madam is now in a bed sans rails and delights in not staying in the bed when she is supposed to be there at 8pm. Great news is that she will quite happily sleep until 10am, bad news is that the boy wakes up with the cockrels.

had a great time in Italy, hubby and I managed to grab a day out with my uncle in Lugano, got some much needed adult time whilst the two kids kept the family amused with their antics.

we have been snowed in, this has prompted unprecedented levels of cabin fever, especially as madam does not like the snow. too cold. we can make it about 10 meters out of the house and she starts to whine. and she whines REALLY well.

I have laughed with my wonderful family over christmas, cried at Dr who and decided to play reggae music and take the kids to the tropical fish place in order to inject some much needed heat into our lives.

we have helped the reverend clear her soft top sports car from snow, had jumping on the bed competitions, and I have forcibly cleaned the kids toy room up. the house is lightter of toys by one big dustbin bag, and they have not even noticed.

A certain swedish furniture manufacturer will be providing me with some storage solutions in the not too distant future whilst hubby cries at mere mention of putting together flat packed furniture.

I have been at an Italian shopping mall at 7am. This is due to my granny's flight leaving at stupid ockolck from an airport in a shopping mall. Ironically granny got home ealier than we managed to get into our first shop. Did a modest amount of shopping for the boy as he has developed crane like legs which wont fit into trousers. Did not manage to buy anything for the girl as Italian shops have an annoying habit of thinking small children have a waist. Madam has never had one, and if she carries on at this rate, never will. I have a wonderful picture of Madam in front of a tray of biscuits. You know can probably fill in the the rest of the story.....

My auntie and Mama cooked up a storm, they made culinary delights that I am still salvating over. Hmmm, we have probably eaten our weight in parma ham. My cousins are now grown up young men, sometimes I have to pinch myself that they are so tall and adult like.

Good news is that the tropical fish tank is in place.....just need the fish now.