Rocco's come home !!!!

Gosh what a couple of days I've had.

This past week Sam has been very reluctant to go to bed, despite on days being very very tired. But as soon as I put him in his cot - he's crying and begging to come back downstairs. More about that later - during the course of the post.

So Wednesday evening I went to go pick Rocco up, installed him on my pc, and had a play with him. It wasn't hugely succesful I have to say, although I got it to cut ok, it seemed to shred the letters I was trying to cut.

I had put Sam in bed when I left home, and for the first time in what seems ages he had gone to sleep and everything was A OK. But I phoned Gary during the course of the evening, and he had got back up. When I got home, Sam was in our bed, still wide awake. In the end I brought him downstairs and we slept intermittantly on the settee.

So Thursday morning came round, my mum was taking the girls to the swimming baths, and Sam was going to nursery, so running on adreneline I had two hours to play. I managed to cut a couple of words - it was fabby. !!!!

By lunchtime my adreneline rush had vanished and due to the interupted night the night before I was zonked. So after dinner Sam and I laid on the settee for a bit and we both fell asleep a short while. Then the girls came home, so we had tea and then they all went to bed.

Needless to say Sam was up again not long after, and so there was no more Rocco, just nursemaid to Sam - bless him he was so upset. Anyway by 10pm he had fallen asleep on the settee so I took him back to his room.

So we went to bed, but Gary had had a few and was snoring dreadfully!!! And I couldn't nudge him like normal to get him to roll on his side - cos he was already on his side!!! LOL. Mind I wasn't laughing at the time - I was soooooooooooo tired. So i huffed and puffed and thought I would just sleep on the settee again!!! And by half twelve or so, sam was crying again, so he came and joined me.

So Friday came, the usual run to Asda etc etc, well not usual cos i had three children in tow not just the one!! But before that I had booked Sam in at the doctors. So we went there first, and the doctor said his rash on the backs of his knees was excema - quite severe at that - so he gave us some cream to put on - sparingly cos it's a bit strong. After that we went to Asda - Friday night curry night. Really miffed cos I forgot to get some more coffee - and I'm living off that right now - need something to keep me awake!

And so after a late lunch and a tidy up etc etc I have been playing with Rocco again - I managed to redo a welded word and also a template with text in - I had to print the text first with the registration marks and then rocco would know where to cut, so the text appears in the middle of the template - anyway thanks to good advice and tutorials on uks i managed it - all on my own !!!!!!

So i almost have a new lo done - with everything on it cut my rocco - will post it later!!!

And that's that - Friday night is indeed curry night, and I envisage another long night tonight - it could be a couple of days before the effects of this cream kick in for Sam - poor lad!!

Half Way There

We're half way through the half term now.

We havn't been able to do very much really - weather has been a bit damp and cold.

Anyway Sam has been in nursery yesterday and this morning, yesterday me and the girls went into Accrington and Abs bought a scrapbooking kit and Georgia bought a watch to make and decorate for the prinmcely sum of £1 each, which brings me to Abigail's story.

On Monday, one of her teeth fell out, I told her to put it in the kitchen and even showed her where to put it - in the corner on a top of a container.

Later that day I decided to blitz the kitchen - part of my ongoing house task at the moment - and how ruthless I am being LOL. Everything seems to congegate (sp?) in the kitchen, so I put on my blitzing head and out it all went.

You know what's coming don't you !!! - so Gary got home and Abs went to get her tooth to show him - "mummy where has it gone - have you thrown it away?" - oh no!!! how could I have !!!!! but I had - so I had to write a note to the tooth fairy saying how sorry I was, and Abigail was much happier the following day when she got double the amount (owing to the fact that the tooth fairy felt sorry for her) and hence bought her scrapbooking kit!!

I have Yorkiegirls' Journal to do at the end of Feb, and I havn't taken any proper pictures and I'm not sure how to remedy that either. We have done bits and pieces but nothing photoworthy IYSWIM.

Last night I went to my crop in Clitheroe, been a few weeks since I have been there, and I had some fab suprises, my friend, Jenny had managed to source AGES ago a clippy kit bag - you know the ones that were going for next to nothing at the PDSA - well she got one for me and last night was the first time in yonks we met again - and so i am now the proud owner of that.

Also, I have seen and hence wanted for even more yonks ago - a k and co flip album - bit hard to describe if you havn't seen them - will posts a piccie later - thats easiest

well last night i managed to get one - julie already has one, and a lady at the crop goes out to the states regularly - she went out before christmas and posted six out to her daughter but they got lost in the post - anyway she just got back again and has bought the last one - ever - and i now have it - how fab is that!!!!!

and then tonight i hope to pick up rocco

So life is pretty good right now scrapping wise!!

I have been trying to put together my layout for the house challenge at the crop tonight, and I made my cj for the new circle I have joined - my theme is tips and techniques and I ahve a fabby new technique to try for that - I am going to mount a photo on chipboard and then emboss it - might have a play with that tomorrow - the girls are going swimming with my mum and aunty and sam will be at nursery - but having said that - Rocco will be home and I might prefer to play with him!!!

I received another email about my crocheted bag this morning -
Thank you for sending us your picture of the bag which we will pass on
to the RecycleNow team.

If only everyone found great new uses for products like yourself. The
world would be a better less polluted place.

Keep up the good work!

So that's cool!!!

and I received another email from a friend - how true is this
Subject: Congratulations to all the kids born in the 1940's 50's 60's and 70's

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after the trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a van -loose- was always great fun.

We drank from garden hosepipes and not from a bottle.

We shared one drink with four friends from one bottle and no one actually died from this.

We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because we were always playing outside.

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day, and we were ok.

We would spend hours building our go-karts out of scraps and then ride them down the hill, only to find we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-Boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no text messaging, no personal computers, no internet or internet chat rooms.......... we had friends and we went outside and found them.

We fell out of trees, got cuts, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We played with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us for ever.

Made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not poke our eyes out.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them.

Local teams had try outs and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with the disappointment. Imagine that!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law.

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever.

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

And you are one of them!

Congratulations,

You might want to share this with others, who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and Government regulated our lives for our own good.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

How much more political correctness, take no blame society, misplaced charity and one sided tolerance can WE put up with before we finally sort things out!!!

So that's it for now, sorry it was a bit longwinded - a lot has happened, but not very much

The Bag Lady Returns

I showed you last week or so my claim to fame with my recycled tote bag being put onto a website - well it's happened again

Check it out http://www.everylittlebithelps.co.uk/recycling.html

This occured cos after posting pics of my bag on UKS i received a pm from someone who has a recycling website, so she asked if I could write a little piece about it - she drafted something up, sought my approval and it went live earlier today!!!

Still hoping for a commission somwehere along the lines !!!! LOL

Today we were meant to go to church but didn't as abigail was a little unwell again forst thing. but she improved as the day went on, so hopefully now we are over the worst.

So I hoovered up and did a few chores, then whilst everyone was playing I attempted my altered clipboard.

I did my lo first and I was sooooooo happy with it, but then I tried to seal it with my mod podge stuff and it all started to wrinkle and buckle - I am not too pleased about that - I have now removed it from the clipboard and when it has dried a bit I hope to salvage it if I can. I was going to do the same LO for the reverse of it, as it seems a shame to have something so fabby and then cover it up with paper that you are writing on!! So before I mod podge that I will have to look at how I stick everything down in the first place - so watch this space.

I am also trying to think of my Feb lo for Yorkiegirls 2007 journal, we don't seem to have done very much up to now really and I havn't taken any piccies yet this month!! Hopefully that will change this week with half term on the way.

Anyway that's it for now - Sunday night is TV night - Wild at Heart - to remind Gary of South Africa!!!! But Trial and Retribution isn't on til tomorrow and Tuesday for some reason.

Anyway - catch you soon

Nothing much happening

Last week my neighbour from across the road came round - she brought with her pictures we had ordered from the photographer, so we have Abigail and Georgia sat on the wall by the church waiting for the bride to arrive. They are begging to be scrapped.






Nothing much happening today. I had decided last night that we may not get to dance class this morning due to Abigail being quite unwell last night, and finally the snow arrived, and I don't do driving in the snow - EVER. But this morning Abigail was fine, and the snow had turned to rain and had almost vanished, but as I had resigned myself to not going - we didn't!!

So I had a nice lie in, I decided to carry on with my house blitz and cleared the airing cupboard out, a task I wish I hadn't started, as it tuend into a mammoth session leading to other things - as always.

Then I had a bath, whilst the girls were playing and Gary and Sam were watching the rugby!!

This afternoon I scrapped - I did another lo of Christmas, but I need to wait for daylight as I need to photograph them. The one I did yesterday is full of bling and glitter - thanks to Ali - and I really don't want to bling the scanner - I would not be popular!!

By tea time Abigail had faded again and was complaining her chest was hurting her, so after their baths she went straight to bed - hoping she's ok in the morning - I can see a trip to the doctor's next week.

Next week is half term, so I'm hoping for some nice weather and then we may be able to do a few days out - fancy going to the coast - I love going to the seaside in winter!!!

So that's today done, tomorrow is church parade with the Brownies ....

Typical Friday morning

Well as I had set aside yesterday to go and get and then play with Rocco, and I couldn't get him in the end, I spent most of the day scrapping - esp as Gary was away overnight with work too - like old times it was !!!!!

Above are the two lo's I did, the Faves at 2, was for the weekly challenge on UKS and the January one was for Yorkiegirls 2007 journal, also on UKS.

Today was like a typical Friday morning prior to starting work, off to school and then off to Asda for the weekly shopping.

At school they have been holding a Europe week, so this morning was a parents assembly, so the children could show off what they have learnt. Georgia's class said "Good morning" to us all in German and counted to ten, and then they sang a song in German. Some people in Abigail's class told us what they had been doing about Greece, and then some children including Abigail did a spot of Greek dancing.

Then it was off to Asda to get the groceries, including curry for Friday night curry night. No change for me - still the same old same old Chicken Tikka Masala!! Old habits die hard.

I also went to the bank as work had very kindly paid me twice at the end of January, unfortunately they wanted it back, so I had to transfer it into my cheque account so I could do that for them. With my money I am buying Rocco and also I am going to treat Gary for a meal out next weekend - my treat.

So shopping done and packed away, hoovering done, kitchen floor mopped, time for dinner and then I am going to scrap Christmas Traditions.

snow and toys

Well today I was supposed to be collecting Rocco, snow was forecast so it was always in doubt wether I would be able to get there.

Abigail was poorly in the night, very hot and had stomach aches, so it was on the cards because she might not make it to school, that I would be able to make my trip anyway, but she woke up this morning OK and has gone to school.

There were a few snowflakes in the air, but nothing major, but I had to think about getting home too. I just don't drive at all in the snow - EVER and to make it worse Gary has MY jeep to give it a good run out and also to help him get home easier just in case - so I am left with the "other" car which I loathe!! and is no good in snow to boot!!

Anyway I digress, I had made my mind up not to go and collect it, as I have to get back to collect the children from nursery and school, so couldn't afford to get stuck anywhere, so I made my phone call to say I wasn't going, and was told that the snow was already settling out Preston way - which is where I was headed, so that definately made my mind up for me.

So I'm home alone, with no plans beacuse today was play day and really fed up!!!!

To make it worse, the snow isn't settling here yet, and I sooooo love the snow, so I don't even have that yet to offset my disappointment.

Oh yes and to top everything I have a massive spot on my chin too !!!!

photo update

Well I said i would come back - and here I am

Below are some photos of Christmas and suchlike, as promised, I havn't gone overboard as I could !!! There is one of Abigail and myself the night she took her Brownie promise, and one of each of the girls during their show at danceschool in October. There are the girls faces as they opened the door on Christmas morning and saw their presents, Sam in his posh suit looking very pleased with himself, the girls again just after Christmas dinner, and Georgia lookign very much a princess in her new tiara, bought by Abigail with her very own money.

Life this past two weeks has resumed to normality, life as a stay at home mum again. I am currently blitzing the entire house, and being very very ruthless into the bargain. It's not making me very popular at home - but hey! - they'll get over it!!

I finished my crocheted bag last week - it is made from plastic carrier bags from Asda, Tesco, Argos, The disney Store, Oswaldtwtistle Mills and The Range, I got my instructions from http://www.marloscrochetcorner.com. I have emailed several recycling companies, and one has put it onto their website - with my name !!!! The site is here http://www.recycle-more.co.uk/nav/page1690.aspx

I also has a pm from someone on UKS - who also has a recycling website. She asked for permission to use the piccie and wanted some details, these have now been sent and hope to be live somewhere else later this week too!!!

But apart from all that life is pretty normal again

I am very excited at the moment though - I am supposed to be going out tomorrow to get my new toy - my craft robo - which already has a name - "Rocco", although he may end up being called many other names too - watch this space.

We are also anticipating snow this week, just hope I can get Rocco before it comes, as I don't do driving in the snow.