I plan to have a great summer!

Today is the last day of school here in England.

When they go back in September I'll have a child in year 4 and one in year 1.

Eeeek,why do they have to grow up so fast!

Until then though we have six weeks of summer holidays.

Six weeks.

I don't know if I am excited or scared.

You see last summer I had all my friends nearby and we all met up

about every other day so our kiddies could play and we had a fantastic summer.

This year we moved and my friends are a bit too far away to do

those meet ups.

I haven't really met any any other mums yet.

Making new friends is HARD.

Nevertheless I do want to have a good summer and not hear

 "what can we do, I'm booooooored" every five minutes.

I would love to do something arty crafty and have fun each day

 so for the past couple of days I've been

looking for some good ideas of what we can make / do.

Last year we made masks

This is something we are definitely doing again this year, They not only loved decorating

their masks but they also had some good imaginative play after.

Another hit last year was making puffy paint pictures

We'll make some more of these masterpieces this summer.

A few other things I want to do with them this summer are

Make paper plate sun catchers

Make ice cream cloud dough

Do some scratch art

Make salt dough necklaces

Make some kites

Do some egg carton painting

Make salty watercolour paintings

Make kool aid play dough

Make home made bubbles

Paint with water

Paint rocks

Make cress head people

Make collages

Decorate water bottles

Make cardboard houses for the Lego people / little ponies

Make summer journals and write in them every day

Make jewellery

Make and decorate a trinket box

Make waffles

Make and decorate cupcakes

Make home made ice cream and ice lollies

Bake cookies

Make loads of smoothies

Make lemonade

Bake a cake and have a party for no reason

Make a summer play list and play the songs every day

Learn a dance routine to a favourite song

Go on a nature scavenger hunt

Go Geocaching

Go for picnics

Go to the zoo

Go on an ABC photo walk

Let the kids play in a stream

Go fossil hunting

Go to the play park

Have water balloon fights

Go to the beach

Make sandcastles

And if mother nature decides to give us some sun

Have the pool up in the garden!

Phew, looks like we ARE going to be busy.

Well I am ready for it.

Bring it on!

Have a great summer my friends!.

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Hello my lovelies, I am so glad to be back after being sick for a couple of days.I hope you all had a good weekend. Ours was wet.The British summer is not going so well this year, I think the sun has truly forgotten us. Anyway, want to know what we got up to on Saturday?Good, because I'm ready to tell you all about it. It was just an ordinary day and nothing special happened.


We all woke up relatively early, kids are still in that stagewhere a sleep in means getting up at five minutes past seven instead ofseven on the dot. Made breakfast. I had mini croissants and pain au chocolats in the freezerso I quickly baked them in the oven for a continental breakfast.Emily decided she wanted coco pops instead.

Kids were excited because the school fair was on so they ran up to get dressed as soon as breakfast was finished. 

Redressed they kids. Dylan came down wearing trousers that got way too short

and Emily decided to clash her colours. I am not that strict on what they wear but I don't

want them to look like little clowns.

It was too early for the school fair so the kids decided to watch a cartoon

Emily spilled orange juice all over her top so I send her up to change clothes AGAIN Found Emily in her room doing her hair and she asked if she could do mine.I let her. We look nice, I know!

Got her another top ready and had a shower

Did the dishes.

Asked Simon to quickly do the hoovering

Watched Simon do the hoovering.

Got ready to go out to the school fair, noticed Dylan's sandals are now too small too.Has this kid grown overnight??

Got the kids scooters out of the garage and started walking

Walked back because it started raining and we needed an umbrella

Kids still wanted to scoot to school so off we went

Walked around the school fair and spend too much money on needless thingsand tombola tickets. Won a necklace in the tombola, yay!

Walked back home in the rain

Simon decided to treat the kids to Mc Donalds for lunch. Kiddies werevery happy with that decision. 

Ate Mc Donalds and went back home

Decided we should buy Dylan some new clothes as he's turning into a

little giant

Drove to Canterbury (in the pouring rain)

Too rainy to walk around town so decided to stop in The Range instead. Looked at all the craft stuff and made some mental notes. Also found some great ideas for summer holiday projects with the kids. Nearly bought some new curtains.

Went to Matalan to buy Dylan some new clothes and shoes

Went straight to the Woman's shoe isle Let out a squeal when I saw these 

Tried them on and put them in the basket  Found Simon and the kids in the kiddies shoe isle.  Helped the kids try on some new shoes  Decided on a pair and went to look for jeans for Dylan  Ignored all the "oh can I have this?" pleas from the kids  Ended up buying more than what we came for, including new towels and a bucket!  Went home, it was still raining  The whole drive home we discussed what we were going to have fordinner. We settled on pasta bolognaise.  Stopped at the supermarket and changed our minds to havepasta pesto chicken instead.  Hubby quickly ran in to buy the ingredients while me and the kiddies stayed in the car. We turned the radio up and sang along as loud as we could to Bruno Mars's "Today I don't feel like doing anything".  Came home and Simon made dinner.  Kids and me decided on what movie to watch.  started watching Jumanji.  Had delicious dinner while watching Jumanji.  Continued watching Jumanji with Emily on my lap because she's scared of the hunter.  Finished the movie and send the kids up for bath time 

They had a quick shower and put their pyjama's on

Tucked the kids in bed and read them a bedtime story.  Sang songs to the kids.  Came down and found Simon had done the dishes (great husband!)and his dad was visiting.

Kids came down to see who was there, said hello to grandad and went back up  Simon went up to tuck them in again  Watched another movie (Source code), while stuffing myself withbiscuits and crisps.  Felt bloated and went to bed.  There you go, that was our Saturday. Nothing spectacular happened but it was a good day.Sometimes those days are the best.  Now, remember my giveaway?Today someone has won these

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sick sick sick

You know I had some really great posts in mind for this week, I really had,

 but instead my body decided to sabotage all those

ideas I had by feeling crappy.

Headache, painful joints (and I mean painful, even my ankles hurt making

my walk like an 80 year old) and general feverishness.

Not fun at all.

You know what is fun?

Finding your daughter in your room trying out a new updo using every single 

hair clip she can find.

She's kind of obsessed with learning how to do her own hair these days.

Anyway

I'm off to have one of these

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followed by one of these

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While I am having a  nap and trying to get back to

my healthy self you can always enter my giveaway and

win yourself a nice pair of earrings.

Good luck if you do.

Good mood = giveaway!!

Hello hello all you lovely people,

It's Tuesday today and I'm in an extremely good mood.

Could be because I'm on a high from just finishing a job interview

that I think went really well, followed by a delicious frappucino and some

retail therapy.

I'm also extremely happy that 100 people so far have taken

an interest in this little blog of mine.

Something I would have never thought of when I started.

I love you all!

Because I'm in this good mood I will do a little giveaway,

but hold on, read the rest first!

So, job interviews,

Crazy stressful things no?

You try to look your best and impress your possible

future employer.

This morning I decided it was the perfect time for me to try out

a new hairstyle, and in the process burn my forehead with the curling thongs!

Yep,  a nice 200 degrees burn right there.

As if that wasn't enough I also pulled a muscle in back!

Good times!

A burning forehead and aching back are not exactly the best conditions to

go on an interview with but I pulled it off effortlessly.

Don't know if that makes me very determined or utterly clumsy though.

You decide.

As I mentioned above I also did some much needed

shopping retail, yay!

Here's what I came home with

strappy top, blue top, coral top: Primark. Bracelet, earrings: Debenhams

You see those nice earrings?

yes, these

I bought and extra pair just for you!

All you have to do to win these is

 be a follower of my blog and leave a comment telling me so

want to have an additional entry?

Great, follow me on facebook and again, let me know by leaving a comment

on my blog.

One lucky person will win these lovelies!

The  winner will be announced next Tuesday.

Good luck!

I'm off the cool my forehead with some ice cubes now!

Linking up with with fabulous ladies

Miscellany Monday

Happy Monday everyone!

I hope the weekend treated you well.

Ours was fairly quiet.

 Saturday we moved sofa's, a bookcase, the TV and some

pictures...in short we rearranged the living room.

Yesterday we had a poorly boy so we stayed at home and

watched some movies.

On to today.

Monday.

Miscellany Monday, yay!

Why don't you join me.

Here we go!

1. After drooling for weeks over a necklace EVERYONE

seems to be wearing I finally bought one myself.

It's coming all the way from China and I can't

wait to start wearing this.

2. One of the movies we watched yesterday was Zathura. It's a bit

like Jumanji only it's set in space. My kiddies loved it and Dylan asked

if we can buy that game for him. I hope he doesn't think

the same will happen to him as to the boys in the movie.

Can you imagine!

3. Friday was Camo day in school. The kids had to dress up

as soldiers or wear green and brown and money was raised for a charity.

Dylan dressed up as a little soldier boy and Emily

wanted to be a sailor girl. She even wore daddies old cap.

What do you think?

4. I have a job interview tomorrow, eeeeeeeek!

To say I'm nervous is an understatement.

I've been trying on every single thing in my wardrobe

and think I have made a choice on what to

wear. Wish me luck OK my lovelies.

5. I think I might make a risotto for dinner tonight.

I like risotto's.

What are you planning for dinner tonight?

6. Yesterday evening we got the treadmill out, all ready for

me to use in the morning. It's now after midday and

it's still out....unused.

Don't think it will get used today.

Sorry body, no fat will be burned today!

7. 99 followers. That's on less than 100.

think I might just pee my pants with happiness!

Thanks so much to each and everyone of you,

you guys ROCK!!!

8. I'm just thinking I could do with some new shoes for

my interview tomorrow...and maybe a new outfit.

Hey, I've got a good excuse right.

OK, think I'm gonna hit the shops now.

Tata for now

Have a great Monday.

fun in the sun

I don't know what it's like at your house,

but when my kiddies come home from school they are famished!

First thing they do when they get through the door is raid the cupboard for

goodies and after school snacks.

Must be all the learning that makes them so hungry.

clever little peanuts.

Yesterday the sun remembered it was in fact summer in England

so instead of having the kiddies indoors I decided to treat them to an

after school picnic.

They loved it!

Once their little bellies were all filled Dylan went off to play ball tag

with some friends and Emily and me played "the princess and the witch", me

being the witch of course!

It was loads of fun.

We'll de doing this again soon.

Have a great weekend my lovely friends!

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Ode to the stripey summer dress

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Oh stripey summer dress how I love you!

You might not be the most flattering thing for me to wear,

but it's OK, I forgive you because you give me so much flair.

I want (need) you in every single colour

Long or short

Thin stripes or thick stripes

Blue, red, yellow, or green

It's in you I like to be seen.

Anyone of these will do

so husband, family or friends

you know what to do.

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Stripey summer dress you are my crush

Simply because you are lush!

Linking up here today

Have a great Thursday my friends

Oh, and I do apologise for my bad rhyming.

A poet I am not.