Shop 'til you drop

Brother-in-law is visiting today to drop of cargo of yet more Easter goodies for Junior:O)  My sister normally sends her niece the best pressies...as in cool stuff that has just landed in the shops..type of thing (she works for a well known supermarket so has first-hand pick of stuff).  So, J can't wait:O))  My older siblings are really good with Junior.  They watch out for her big time, even though they're so far away.  I know sometimes they sense that I worry about what will happen to her if I wasn't here and who will care for her, etc.    That's why they're godparents.  No getting out of it now.  lol   Most people probably have these dark worries, don't they?  

Her daily diary is coming along well.  Some of it is in "diary" style and some is in "magazine".  Still, at least she is writing through choice:O)  

The guitar she got for Crimble has finally made it's way out of the storage box.  She's ready to have a serious go and so we're aiming at getting practice in everyday...and some music reading:O)  Recorder playing in this house, however,  is a REALLY noisy affair.....the dogs just howl and howl..don't think for a minute they are singing along:O)   So, we have to wait until neighbours are out for that particular activity.  lol

Today we're off to the nearest big city for a look around (bro in law loves shopping, can you believe?  Sister hates it!!)  Shall send her something nice back, though:O)

Now, time to go.  Comfy shoes at the ready!!  lol    

Send Comfort

A home edding friend has just lost her husband...the kids obviously have lost their dad.   They are a lovely family and he was a nice bloke who worked hard for them.

Not fair, is it?

Was the funeral today.

Baby, it's cold INSIDE!

So, this morning.  "Let's see if we can be a little healthier in the food department a la breakfast:O))  All those Easter eggs....tut tut.

What shall we have?  I know....a smoothie".    So,  out with blender and in go all the ingredients.  Luverly, jubberly.  Hands Junior her glassful and off she tootles.  I get mine and  commence to consume the goodies....far too quickly as it happens.    Was very nice!   But...then.....arghhhhhh!!!!!   pain!!!......clutches head in hands!!     Min's got......BRAIN FREEZE!!

(Note to self:-  In future, must remember to take my time when drinking smoothies made with frozen fruit!!)  

Dental Work

Spa Night didn't get going!   Nor did my Chocolate and Beetroot cake. 

Junior had headache due to worrying too much about a wobbly tooth which was bleeding a bit..due to lots of fiddling with!!  She felt a bit sick and icky and decided to try and get an early night..and was asleep by 8.45.

So, all day today she has been bothered by this wobbly tooth, which was hanging on by a thread and not letting go!!  I asked if she wanted me to assist in its removal and she declined my kind offer, can you believe:O)?  So she's been driving me POTTY with constant wittering and worrying.

Anyway,  we had an invite to dinner and went to my mother's.  Ate dinner (which was delish), sat and had a natter, did some art and Junior had a final cuddle from her Gran before we departed for home.  Anyway,  Gran is cuddling and rocking Junior.  Junior is STILL prodding her tooth.  So,  Gran "accidentally" hitched Junior further up onto her knee and this co-incided with J prodding that blasted tooth.  Result being one evicted baby tooth:O)  Hooray!!!!    Her appetite has suddenly increased and she has more than made up for yesterday's lack of:O)

Toothless child came home considerably richer (twelve quid!!  £2 for the tooth and the rest instead of a sugar-laden Easter egg!)  Oh, to be young again:O)

Now she's wittering about the big hole it's left!     Arghhhhhhhhh!!!

She's writing her diary as I type.  It has all the gory details of the tooth eviction!!  lol 

Wind and Spa Night

So, it's  been blowing a gale up in hill billy land  and snowing now and again..but it's lovely and sunny at the mo.  Total schizophrenic weather  which is about normal for the end of March! The mogs are being blown in through the cat flap. They land unceremoniously upon the kitchen laminate, shake themselves back into shape (look round to see if anyone spotted this undignified "landing")....and trot off upstairs, with a feline trill, to the warmth and peace of MY bedroom!!! Too much hassle elsewhere, what with their rampant 4 week old kitty nieces and nephew running riot. lol From the corner of your eye they look like huge, black, furry spiders. Eeek..glad they're not!!

We went to local market town today. Got supplies for choc and beetroot cake, plenty of fresh fruit n veg, locally made spinach and onion bread which smells gorgeous...  AND maple syrup...pancakes just aren't the same without maple syrup:O))     I feel a "Martha Stewart" coming along and so am on the hunt for a waffle maker. Junior isn't usually a cereal/toast/porridge type of girl for breakfast (only by force)...so we try different things. Some days we fancy savoury..some days we don't. Doesn't matter what she eats, though....she's still very slender. "I was like that at her age.   She's just like me"....I tells son no 2. "Yeah", says he.."just see what she's got to look forward to!!" Hmphhh!!      Still, he must love his old ma and sis 'cos he sent us some chocolate Easter eggs in the post.  He lives down south, you see.  Anyway, the postage cost more than the actual eggs....bless:O))

Tonight is Spa Night. We agreed a sort of timetable ages ago..and, My God...she remembered the nice bits!! So, we will be massaging feet and hands, pedicuring and manicuring this evening. I did have the foresight to buy a little box of chocs (which she has spotted already). We've got grapes, too..but I'm not peeling them. (this is my Mother's doing...."don't eat the skin...you don't know where it's been". Sooooo, Junior does not do grape (or tomato) skin).

And, horray.....I found the instruction of use for my camera!! Hopefully your eyesight will be saved from now... no more boggled and unfocused piccies. Got to find my specs first..so I can read the instructions:O)    Such are the joys of growing old!!!

The latest new of Cary..who has just had a tough time and seems destined to not have anyone of her own sort to love:O(( xx

Happy Easter to those who are celebrating:O)   Ours isn't for a few weeks yet.

Wah!!!

Won't be long now until I'm a granny:O)  

Son no 2 and his partner are very young for this (18 & 20) and so I and mother-to-be's mum worry...alot... as to how they'll manage..but they seem to be looking forward to becoming three and have been buying stuff in preparation.  Son has just started a new full time job, too and so feels a bit happier to have money coming in to provide things of choice and not just necessity:O)  It only seems like yesterday that he was playing with his lego, toy cars, riding his bike and tearing his trousers.  Now he's about to be a parent himself.

They grow up too quickly!!!

I bought my first bits for the baby yesterday.  She's got a couple of months to go and I didn't want to buy anything before because it was too early..... incase.....  OK..I'm superstitious!!  

Anyhow, when I was paying for my items I suddenly felt really emotional.  I very nearly started blubbing as I was paying and walking out of the store.  Well,  little grandchild will be very much loved by granny and I can't wait for that first cuddle:O)   I wonder if baby will have Daddy's red hair?

The parents-to-be want us mums to be there at the birth.  Fat lot of good I'll be,  going on yesterday's antics...I'll probably be the biggest baby there!!  

On the Home Ed front:O)
Boxed French course for Junior.

Fancy little Easter box that Junior made from scratch for me one day last week.

4 weeks old today...and they won't keep still for one second!!!

Meet Roxy...the adventurous one..with Cupcake at the rear:O)

Little Wrigglers:O) The four of them have discovered life out of the nesting box. They scoot and romp around, playing with everything in sight. They won't eat kitten food..have tried it on them but they're not having it...so we're not having to "potty train"...yet! Ah, such fun that'll be:O))

This weekend we are hoping to try our hand at a chocolate and beetroot cake! Gonna have fun trying to veganise that one!!

On a depressing note

Too much hassle to deal with at the mo.  No wonder some folk go barmy..or just up and go!!     

House, finances, red tape, ..even the allotment...it's getting all political there too, with people walking round clutching clipboards.. tut tutting at certain plots.  The ones that are run by the retired blokes who spend all their time up there, some sipping their home made whatever,  are all preened and clipped while those plots that belong to folk who work or have other duties in life are more, er...normal.  And the kid from hell who lives next door is on fine form, too.   Rude as rude can be.   Arghhhh.

Wonder if I can find us a nice little place away from all this hassle?  Nothing too big, just enough land to grow fruit and veg...maybe put the odd rescue hen or twelve on:O)  Yes...in my dreams me thinks:O(