PAYDAY! woohoo is all i can say to that!
took jamie and lexi to tesco for breakfast to celebrate lol (its been a long month!)
the parents hamper is coming along very nicely now lots of treats and some basics as well. last night we bought my nephews christmas present off of the auction channel on tv its basically a cheap imitation of a wii £40 with lots of games pre installed comes with all the controllers etc, i think they will be happy with that. they will have to share, they are twin 7 year olds so they should be used to sharing.they actually sare a birthday with charity, how weird is that! we were introduced to charity on her first birthday, as we were meeting her my sister was being wheeled into theatre for her c-section!so they are one year apart to the day.
oh, i digress...
so after tesco (i spent £90 and managed to get about four items of actual shopping.....it was all christmas presents!!)then over to teh garden centre. jamie want to know if the christmas decorations are up yet (i dont know who was more excited him or me!lol) they arent there yet but we could see through the big black curtain that it was nearly time and the sign said early october....eek, not long now! after school we went to our other big garden centre as i know the 2 seem to have a race as to who can get their stuff on sale first, sadly aother big black curtain greeted us but again, it wont be long!did manage to buy a babies first christmas snowglobe and a little sockin ornament. the children get at least one ornament each year i write their name and the year on it. mypla is when they leave home they will have a box full of ornaments to start their own trees with. i have ornaments my nanny gave me and they are my most cherished christmas decorations.
talking of trees...
charity (chats) usually has a pink pre lit tree in her bedroom this year as she and jamie are sharing at the moment ive told her she will have to have a green tree and when she starts sharing with lexi they will have the pink tree in their room so for this year it will be in lexi's room i ill have tothink of a theme to decorate it and a theme for the tree in the kids room...decisions,decisions!
and theres still those birthday cakes to decide upon......well, j has decided on a big spider sitting on a spider we and chats well its down to a tray of cupcakes or a handbag/nacklace/mirror combo or a fairy toadstall or a tasselled cushion topped with tiara and sceptre which is my favourite idea at the moment...watch this space
today we finally managed to get all the junk into the loft so the babies room is useable
Monday 27 September 2010
Friday 24 September 2010
treats all round
jamie off school again today he hasnt not stopped talking for a second. he stopped lexi sleeping/woke her up so many times it just wasnt funny.
ended today with the husband coming home early from work so we took the kids over the road to sainsburys for a treat of hot chocolate topped with cream and choc chips and a pain au chocolat. and coffee for mum and dad (i needed it after a day with jamie chattering) jamie then went into complete meltdown in the middle of sainsburys then lexi woke up and started screaming because she wanted feeding. so i have to carry her round the supermarket sucking on my finger to stop her screaming, jamie is screaming and shouting his head off that he doesnt want to go to bed (omg we sound like a right rough family, we are not,honestly!)when we got home jamie has been scratching his chicken pox when i dont know as ive been wachig him and he's ben wearing fleecy all in one pj's but im gonna guess whilst in the toilet cos the ones he has scratched are on the top of his legs! i told him they will scar if he scratches them and he went into complete meltdown again for about 30 minutes!
anyway, ive bougt a couple more items to in hamper im putting together for my parents fo christmas and i treated myself to a fab cookery book in sainsburys called baking magic by kate shirazi. the husband says well i like baking the cakes and he likes eating them so everyone is a winner!its got some lovely recipies in and i cant wait to try them out, once jamie is back at schol and my head stops spinning!
mark bought home half a dozen fresh eggs from the customer he was working for today signed on top of the egg box 'with lots of love from * cottage' bless! so ham egg and chips for dinner the cutest tiniest eggs you ever did see!
ended today with the husband coming home early from work so we took the kids over the road to sainsburys for a treat of hot chocolate topped with cream and choc chips and a pain au chocolat. and coffee for mum and dad (i needed it after a day with jamie chattering) jamie then went into complete meltdown in the middle of sainsburys then lexi woke up and started screaming because she wanted feeding. so i have to carry her round the supermarket sucking on my finger to stop her screaming, jamie is screaming and shouting his head off that he doesnt want to go to bed (omg we sound like a right rough family, we are not,honestly!)when we got home jamie has been scratching his chicken pox when i dont know as ive been wachig him and he's ben wearing fleecy all in one pj's but im gonna guess whilst in the toilet cos the ones he has scratched are on the top of his legs! i told him they will scar if he scratches them and he went into complete meltdown again for about 30 minutes!
anyway, ive bougt a couple more items to in hamper im putting together for my parents fo christmas and i treated myself to a fab cookery book in sainsburys called baking magic by kate shirazi. the husband says well i like baking the cakes and he likes eating them so everyone is a winner!its got some lovely recipies in and i cant wait to try them out, once jamie is back at schol and my head stops spinning!
mark bought home half a dozen fresh eggs from the customer he was working for today signed on top of the egg box 'with lots of love from * cottage' bless! so ham egg and chips for dinner the cutest tiniest eggs you ever did see!
Thursday 23 September 2010
well, this is me!
so, here i am a 'blogger' (ive be called worse!) for someone so technically inept this is quite impressive!
the title of my blog.. kids, cakes and christmas tells you just about everything. lol
im a stay at home mum with 2 adopted children charity,8 and jamie,5. charity is my angel(with a slightly dented 8year old halo) and jamie is my whirlwind leaving a path of destruction behind him!jamie started school full time on monday..today (thursday) he is at hme with chicken pox...that says it all. Nothing in this house is normal, nothing is calm! but J starting scool couldnt have come at a better time.
I suffer from polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos), oh yes i couldnt just ha polycycstic ovaries, i had to have a syndrome too! ha ha! 20 years ago we started trying for a baby and nothing...we had 10 years of tests and hormone tablets but nothing. in the end we gave up, well we gave up thinking it would ever happen, you never get over the need or the longing. so we moved from heathrow to north devon, a beautiful place. 7 years ago we adopted our daughter at age one. followed 4 years ago by her brother also then aged one and life went on. this april after feeling continually unwell i decided enough was enough and took myself off to the gp to find out i was 4 1/2 months pregnant. to say we were shocked is an understatement and little lexi was born on 10th july and i am completely an utterly in love! people keep asking if i feel differently aboutthe older two childen, but i have to say, they are ALL my babies and my feelings for the other 2 have not altered at all.
so with a 10week old baby in the house i dont honestly have much time for anything else we moved into our home in april and i am just this week finding myself able to get the house properly sorted! and now i have 2 kids birthdays coming up (the older 2 are a week apart) Then in december its my 40th (surely not!) and then christmas!! i am christmas mad and so are my kids but this year im a little less organised then normal so i am currently looking what birthday cakes to make the kids...watch this space
the title of my blog.. kids, cakes and christmas tells you just about everything. lol
im a stay at home mum with 2 adopted children charity,8 and jamie,5. charity is my angel(with a slightly dented 8year old halo) and jamie is my whirlwind leaving a path of destruction behind him!jamie started school full time on monday..today (thursday) he is at hme with chicken pox...that says it all. Nothing in this house is normal, nothing is calm! but J starting scool couldnt have come at a better time.
I suffer from polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos), oh yes i couldnt just ha polycycstic ovaries, i had to have a syndrome too! ha ha! 20 years ago we started trying for a baby and nothing...we had 10 years of tests and hormone tablets but nothing. in the end we gave up, well we gave up thinking it would ever happen, you never get over the need or the longing. so we moved from heathrow to north devon, a beautiful place. 7 years ago we adopted our daughter at age one. followed 4 years ago by her brother also then aged one and life went on. this april after feeling continually unwell i decided enough was enough and took myself off to the gp to find out i was 4 1/2 months pregnant. to say we were shocked is an understatement and little lexi was born on 10th july and i am completely an utterly in love! people keep asking if i feel differently aboutthe older two childen, but i have to say, they are ALL my babies and my feelings for the other 2 have not altered at all.
so with a 10week old baby in the house i dont honestly have much time for anything else we moved into our home in april and i am just this week finding myself able to get the house properly sorted! and now i have 2 kids birthdays coming up (the older 2 are a week apart) Then in december its my 40th (surely not!) and then christmas!! i am christmas mad and so are my kids but this year im a little less organised then normal so i am currently looking what birthday cakes to make the kids...watch this space
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