Excitement but not as we know it!

We had a very eventful weekend-culminating in a sunday during which I spent most of the afternoon with my finger plugging a leaking pipe! M had done a brilliant job installing the new towel radiator and was nailing the floor boards back when the excitement started. A nail and the pipe came a bit too close for comfort and we had a nice fountain! I plugged the whole while M went to wickes to get the things he needed to repair the situation. To make a long story short after about 3 hours the water stopped flowing and I was able to move my thumb. I can completely sympathise with the little dutch boy who plugged the hole in the dyke.

The other excitement of the weekend was putting a deposit down on a new house. If all goes well we will be in by the beginning of may which doesn't leave us much time to get this place ship shape to let out. Our new house is in a small town outside leicester called Syston and it will mean M only has about a 15 minute commute into work. Will post a photo of the house later. It is a 3 storey town house with lots of room. We will all be sad to leave Pboro but will be close enough to be able to come back for mudpud, swimming etc. Hopefully our friends will make the trip over to see us as well. Must investigate home ed groups in leicester as well, I 'm sure they can't be possibly be as good as mudpud.

Sam is going to get a good education in diy, legal processes, banking and frustration over the next two months!! Not sure they feature in the national curriculum. We must stick as close as possible to our normal day to day activities to maintain some type of continutiy for sam and to maintain my sanity.

magnetic personality

We spent most of the day messing about with magents from our 3rd young scientist club kit. We did all of their suggested experiments plus loads of our own. We both had fun and hopefully we learned a thing or two. I really recommend the young scientist club, they are reasonably priced, the kits come with almost everything you need and above all they are fun! Their website is www.theyoungscientistsclub.com. Other than playing mad scientist we spent the rest of the day doing normals, playing with friends and running errands. We ended up at the drs as poor sam has a ear infection. He can't be in too much pain though as he managed to eat his dinner and listen to his shuffle. Still I dosed him up with capol and antibiotics before bed so hopefully he will sleep well.

Thank you for all my birthday wishes. I had a nice day. We lazed around in the morning and then went house hunting in the afternoon. The house that we really liked was in a lousy position and had a garden almost smaller than our current one. The hunt continues this weekend, we have found a few developments that look promising. Meanwhile back here I have painted half the living room and we will be doing the bathroom at the weekend.

Party preparations have started in ernest here, sam is so excited about the big day. sourced all the things for the party bags, now just have to organise the food and do a practice run with the cake. Can't believe my little baby is going to be 5 next week.

shameless self promotion

Happy Birthday to me!!!!! I am now 38, which seems awfully close to 40. Funny, I don't feel that old and I certainly don't think that I am as grown up and responsible as my mother was at my age. Sometimes I marvel that on the outside I seem like a reasonably mature grown up capable of making mature grown up decisions when on the inside I feel like I am still an uncertain, insecure teenager. Wonder if my inward maturity will every catch up with my outward maturity, and if it does is that a good thing or a bad thing.

The 80s seems like yesterday and seems much more relevant to me than the culture of the 90s, it must be true then that your teenage years are your most formative. Seeing all this 80s revival fashion around at the moment just makes me giggle-most of the girls wearing it weren't even born then!!

I guess I must be getting old though because what I really wanted for my bday was a eggloo and a couple of hens. It just isn't possible at this house-plus the cats would think of them as a catch your own supper opportunity.

Not sure what today holds-nothing special planned, just being able to spend the day with M and sam will be nice. though as M has been on nights all weekend I suspect he will sleep most of the day. Given the fact that it is now after midnight and I don't feel tired yet I may end up sleeping half the day! If only a certain young man will up up at 6 bright eyed and bushy tailed ready to start the day.

silence is golden

sam's second sleep over has now come to a peaceful interlude. sam and p are now off in dream land-about half an hour earlier than last time. I hope the boys have had a good time. It was a bit chaotic when P first arrived as we were still finishing off painting the kitchen. After a yummy pizza dinner (thank you to my in laws!) the boys settle in to play hot wheels and then some quality time with wak & tak. we finished off the evening with scooby doo. just hope they don't have nightmares!!!

It has been a bity week. I have been very preoccupied with the potential move and feel that I haven't given sam as much attention has he deserves. Next week should be quieter so we can spend more time together doing fun stuff,not boring grown up errands. We have done normals everyday, worked a bit on our iditarod project and played lots of wak & tak and zoombeenies. we have also had lots of bday parties this week so all that hype and sugar has made sam v. exciteable. that and the fact that he is practically counting down the days until his party. I still have so much to do, the main one being sending out invitations!! Can't believe that my little boy will be 5 in just over 2 weeks. where has the time gone??

As far as the house goes I think we are pretty much decided on buying the new house in leicester provided the garden size and direction passes muster. It is scary and exciting all at the same time, especially as the house would be ready by May which is soon than we were planning on. there is still so much to do to this house to get it ready to let that I can't believe that we will be ready in time. we may go up on monday to have another look around and chat with the sales advisor so watch this space!

Long time no blog..

life in our little house has been busy the last two weeks. The highlight was without a doubt seeing old friends. Not only were we able to meet up with my old school friend M and her family for a wonderful sunday lunch but my friend from college (university for my english friends) MK came to stay for a week.

MK and I hadn't seen each other in about 14 years but it was like no time at all had passed when she got here. It was so much fun catching up with her and showing her our part of the world. I just hope that she had as much fun as we did. Sam had as much fun with her as I did, especially as she kept him entertained with stories about her mischevious pets. She must have been shattered when she left, we kept her busy everyday. It was a sad sam and I who trooped in after dropping her at the airport on monday.

The rest of this week has passed in a blur-normals everyday for sam and I as well as getting to grips with our iditarod project. We have now done our map, chosen our musher and done a table to show all the checkpoints. Next we are going to learn about all the equipment and the sleds, not to mention the dogs! We have each chosen a musher (sam, Matthew and I) and have agreed that the one whose musher finishes first can choose a family evening/outing. Not sure what we will do if none of our mushers finish. Would love to go and see the race one day, will have to add it to the list of things to do!