To do .......

Falling behind with Shimelles class as is the norm for me!! But without reading back and relying in my memory, I believe we were to post a to do or wish list.

So,

1. get a routine going. I seriously need one, I never know what to make for tea, have no housework plan, leave everything til the last minute. Basically get organised!!
2. Lose weight - yeah - still
3. Try to keep up to date with Uni work (all ties in with no.1)
4. Offload more stuff onto other people instead of trying to do it all myself.

So a bit vague, but that's the thing, the left hand doesn't know what the right one is doing so to speak, most of the time. I fail to plan. Mostly I am laid back about this and things don't bother me too much but every now and again I have a wobble and frantic panic to sort things out.

Sorry - bit of a waffle - tfl

ooooohhhhhh, I've customised!!!

Wow that was easy!! Thanks to The Cutest Blog on The Block I've got myself a new look. I reckon I will be chopping and changing every 5 minutes now!!

Love to find my kids playing this type of PC game ...

Time Well Spent??

So as I sit here at what is heading towards 9pm, casually reading through the 266 posts that have appeared in my Google Reader, I consider 5 things that my time would perhaps be better spent doing.

1. that leaning tower of pisa ironing pile
2. loading the dishwasher
3. studying and reading up on my notes
4. various Guiding paperwork jobs that I keep putting off
5. chatting to my teenage daughter as she sits on the other sofa on her laptop!!

OK with maybe the exception of the last one, I would actually rather be reading the blog posts!! I will never be totally on top of the ironing pile anyway, who would be with 6 peoples washing & ironing to do. Dishwasher? Nah! Studying? Well the assignment isn't due until after Christmas 0 what's the panic?? Paperwork - who needs that on a Wednesday night!! And talking to a teenager who has just got her own laptop? I don't stand a chance!! We communicate via our Facebook walls most often these days! Even my husband has signed up to Facebook to get a look in on the action!

So I will return to my new best friend Google Reader!

A Day Most Momentous!

Is that how you spell momentous? No matter. What I am meaning to say is that this day, Tuesday 2nd November 2009 is a day that will remain engrained on the memories of my 3 youngest children forever more.

I decided at the end of last half term to take them out of their school. This decision was one that many people think I am mad for making and cannot understand why I did it, after all we live 100 yards from the school they were at, they didn't need to cross any roads, it was a perfectly good school.

However, I work in another school within the county. My hours are pretty much school hours, and I found myself in an everlasting battle against the clock, the clock that ticked from when I dropped the kids at school to when I started work, or the clock that ticked from when I finished work to when I had to pick up the children. I would race home from work, driving like a woman possessed, wanging the car up onto the drive, jumping out & racing round to school to collect them, and so on ........

SO, just before the end of half term we had news that some children we leaving the school where I worked which presented an opportunity to me, there were places in each of the year groups of my children. If they were there I would have no need to race any more.

I chatted to the teachers, discussed how working in the same school as my children may feel, for me aswell as them, I talked it through with the kids, my husband, friends, my parents. The over-riding opinion was that this would be a good thing, my list of positives outweighed my list of negatives. So I made the arrangements, filled in the forms, put the wheels of change into motion.

Today was their first day.

They are happy.

I am happy!

Blogging For Scrapbookers

Well here we go, I have had the first prompt from Shimelle for her new class. I'd never thought of it before but she is right when she likens blogging to scrapbooking.

Blogging, it's a brilliant way to record what is happening either at special events or just in our every day lives, without having to spend a few hours on a page. So my plan is, directed by the very creative Shimelle, to blog about the everyday, with a view to go back to those memories - at a time to suit me, when I have a creative urge!

There are people all over the world joining in this class, so now off I hop to read some of those blogs around the world that are being created and updated by my classmates.

If you are one of them, good luck as we go on this journey and learning curve together.