Hats Outrageous!

Oh my!

A little bit of stress and tension in our household.  First off we have Husband working.  Okay, one day money will be coming in, but it's not happened yet, although there is a rumour that it shall be showing its face somewhere near the end of the month.  Which is soon.  Hurrah!  Secondly, Husband isn't happy where he's working, most upset last night about being away from home and hearth, as it were.  It's the weekend though, so there's a little bit of relief in sight, and we prayed about it, he mostly has to remember to take some reading material with him next week, that was half the problem.  I can see the books he intended to take...sitting on his desk!

Next we were waiting for the notice about what school our baby boy is going to go to - okay, he's 4 in May, he's not such a baby!  The notices went in the post yesterday, and I only applied for one school - the one his sister had gone to and his 2 older brothers are currently attending.  Even though the odds were fairly stacked in his favour, sibling-preference and all that, and having 2 siblings at the school would likely stack them even higher, it still didn't stop me having a heart-sickening worry that he wouldn't get a place. 

Anyway, the post's been, he's been awarded a place, as we'd hoped.  Hurrah!

Lastly, and quite possibly the most pressing one - I am selling at Misty Moon Easter Art and Craft Fair tomorrow!  I'm not quite sure how much stuff I will have, but I have a niggling feeling in the back of my mind that it's not quite enough, and I'm going to put a bit of an effort in between now and then...what am I doing on here??  Wish me well!

Bleurgh

Husband's home! Hooray!  I feel ill.  Boo!  Is it possible to be allergic to onions?  Every time I eat them I suffer all night long, belly pain.  This morning I've been suffering in other ways...no I won't go into details, but I've been able to catch up with a lot of my reading, if you know what I mean.  It's not nice.

No. 1 Son is going to make his first foray into the big wide world of public transport by himself today - and I say it's about time.  He has a book group he attends, and ordinarily his sister or I would take him, but she's away on camp, and I'm feeling under the weather, so it's off by himself.  He's very nearly 10, and I'm going to take him to the bus stop and see him onto the bus...he knows exactly where to go, there's no reason for him to not get there safely, and I'll pick him up when it's over. 

He's a bit scared (more than a bit!) and so am I, but I mustn't show it!  He has lots of mates who walk to school by themselves, which he could quite easily do too (or at least catch the bus - there's others who do that too) but he lacks the confidence.  MInd you, his sister was the same, and she goes to and from school by train these days, and pops into the shops for me if required...I guess it just takes a first time and then he'll be fine.  He's made strides in his confidence levels lately, he attends a music class at the church across the road of a Saturday afternoon, and he's able to get there and back by himself.  We can only try.

Hooray!

I have a little job!  Nothing massive (duh!  That's why it's a little job!) but it's 1 hour a week typing a manuscript for a local man who's had this book going around in his head since 1945...and he started putting it on paper 10 years ago...basically he needs someone to tell him "that's enough!" and type it out, because he keeps making changes...hence the 10 years!  My job (apart from the typing) is to be objective...and firm!

We met today (after having first talked on the phone on Tuesday night) and he's a lot of fun, we had a good laugh!  He's old enough to be my grandfather, and he reminds me a lot of my Dear Nanna....sniff!

First paid appointment is this Friday at 10am - wish me all the best!

Crafts with the Kids

Good Morning (well, actually, good afternoon, it's 12.12...)!

I don't know how your half-term is going, or even if you have a half-term, but today at our house it's very very wet!  So, rather than go out anywhere, the children and I have made some bookmarks!

I found this website the other day, when I was having a bit of a search on Twitter If you have a bit of a look around, they're more than just a webshop, they've also loads of ideas of things to make with stuff you may just happen to have lying around.

And so we did!

Our bookmarks came from this page on their website.  We adapted the directions a bit - would you like to see what we made?

 

The third one is my daughter's - isn't she talented!  The rest are mine though...what do  you think?  The book is an old one we brought over from Australia called "Victorian Lives".  I bought it from a library and I don't think I've ever read it...it's made from the most lovely paper - I think hemp, because it's woven - so rather than have it cluttering our shelves, unloved, it lives to see another day!