Life is a Highway - it’s the journey, not the destination

the gameboy micro for a DS. James is suitable jealous of his son now I think Marcus will really like it and it will be nice that he has something that is just his. Having spent most of their years in a shared bedroom they never really had much which was solely theirs and I always felt it was important for them to share their stuff. Now he’s getting a bit older I think it’ll be worthwhile for him to have his own special stuff and he now has his own room to keep them safe too.

So now I need tips on best places to buy games and all that stuff from all you DS obsessed people! I will so not be joining you all, I’m def not a gaming person!

Although the way the kids are behaving today I may just keep it for myself and hide in a cupboard somewhere with it…

thought I’d done well getting Marcus a Gameboy for his birthday and found a decent price at Game online. Anyway arrived today and I bought the wrong thing - managed to buy a 3 inch teeny tiny micro console!! Duh! Ah well, back to the drawing board

for this week. The past 2 weeks have been so not normal by the end of it I had 2 really awful children. Although we had a couple of trips to Magna last week which were really good so I’m making a note of it! There is a Wallace and gromit exhibition in the foyer bit and we all made some mini films and played around with the animation computer games. I think the kids got quite a bit out of it so worth the trip.

Housemoving was an absolute nightmare. All the paperwork and legal stuff went through fine but the actual clearing out and moving was just awful. Not helped by havign 2 kids underfoot who were hyper from too many sweeties and junk food and at the end of a 2 week stint away from home. Anyway, done now.

So I had high hopes for a nice calm week spent at home doing some quality stuff with the kids. It’s not been bad but certainly not what I wanted!! The house is just so crammed full of junk now since we moved the last lot of stuff and I just don’t know what to do with it all. It’s slowly going down but underneath it all is a filthy house and I just so want it clean and sparkly! Am very concious of having guests next week and could do without a scary house, esp as they are seeign Joyce after us - what a comparison!!

So, Monday I was up early and spent a nice early time with Marcus reading his Action Man comic. Marcus then spent some time drawing some pictures of vehicles the goodies and baddies could use. Alex woke up late and I can’t remember if we all did anythign of note!! The kids watched a video at some point and I tackled the vegetable plot which is looking awful! So high in weeds. Shall update garden blog soon. In the evening we went with James to look at a new car for him and as we were waiting Marcus decided he wanted to play with some kids who were outside (it was in a culdisac with a grass bit in the middle). he just went straight up to them and asked to play. I think they were a bit bemused!! He’s so good at mucking in with complete strangers, I was really proud of him. Alex is not nearly so good surprisingly, but maybe she’ll get better as she gets older too.

Tuesday I decided we needed to sort the kids rooms out but they needed storage boxes so the morning consisted of going to Argos to get some. Why does it take all morning to do stuff??? I’ve no idea, it’s not even that far away! So in the afternoon we cleared their rooms. Well it wasn’t *all* done in a day, but we finished it up today and they look much better.

Today I was up way before the kids which was nice. Managed to do a few chores before they got up and started breakfast (which also takes forever!!). I’ve filled out forms for Marcus to start football training in August and also for both of them to do a summer *camp* of football one week in July. Not sure if there will be places for the camps but we’ll see. Shoudl definitely have the place for the weekly training though so Marcus is very excited about that. Have also enquired about a gymnastics class for Alex as this is what she wants to do, not sure if we’ll get her in but we’ll see. Ought to really look at swimming lessons some time soon.

After breakfast we walked up to the park and to the post office and shop. Both kids asked beautifully for a 1st class stamp from the post office. They really are getting their confidence up. Not that I really have to worry about Alex much!! This afternoon we’ve spoken about compasses and which way is North and then we explored the farm for a bit. Everything is blooming now, so many flowers to see. The kids are getting really good at identifying stuff.

And that’s about it for now. I know I need to upload the Kessie pics, shall do them soon.

finally home in Scotland. Now have to unpack Shall try to do proper blog post soon!

All fairly painless except from a nightmare taking rubbish to the tip yesterday, but the house sale has finally gone through and is done and dusted!! I’m no longer a home -owner!! Bloody shattered now though.

been thinking about buying zoombinis for my 2 and have just been reminded of it after reading Nic’s blog. Anyone know of the best place to get it from? Which one is the best one or most suitable to start with or should I go mad and get the triple pack?

the password to the blog writing page that is. Suppose I could write up my Kessie account then.

Had a really good time all week, with only a minor blip at the beginning of the week that could have potentially made me a grump all the time. The kids are finally at an age now that I can relax a bit more with them and not have to have such a paranoid eye glued to them all the time. I think it makes such a difference. And of course with them growing up the nights became easier too which in turn left me in a better mood (oh and the airbed stayed up all week too which helped!).

Loved all the crafts even though I’m sooo not a crafty person, the cabaret night was fab too. Loved sitting around chatting to friends too while watching the kids pick up old friendships and create new ones.

Have felt so tired since coming back and really flat. House supposed to be completed by Friday so now I have the mammoth task of packing up all the remaining bits of shit in the house and I can’t face it. I want to be back on holiday!!!

James has been very jealous though as I think he’d have liked to meet up with everyone again. Have pondered a tour of the south some time, but can’t quite get my head round it yet. We’ll see!

Thanks everyone for the fab photo’s really enjoyed looking through them all And sorry for the crap update!

is here for those interested. No pics yet, shall try and upload some soon.

we took the stablisers off Marcus’s bike and he’s taken to it like a fish to water! I think the lidl bike has really helped. If I can fit it in I’ll be taking them to Kessingland and he can practise some more. Now to work on Alex!!

all that hard work paid off. Got my assignment back and got 72% - phew!