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