Life has moved on since my last post in more ways than one.
Firstly my mum turned 60! Yes, 60 and did we, by which I mean my whole family, let her forget it? No! We've been building up to it for months now and at every possible opportunity have managed to mention 'bus pass/seniors discounts/heating allowance etc.' in almost every conversation. Even Katarina got in on the act and has been pulling grandma's leg unmercifully - she's obviously been well trained.
My step-dad, Richard (yes, another one), planned a surprise meal for various family and friends. Actually surprise is a bit of an overstatement because mum knew something was going on but not the actual where or who so it wasn't that much of a surprise. I don't know about anyone else but I had a great time. It was so nice to meet up with family members I either haven't seen in a long time and in one case haven't even met yet. My cousin Kurt and his wife Helen each fall in to one of the previous categories. Richard (my Richard) and I really enjoyed talking with them and Helen is so lovely. Kurt's not so bad either
I've finally got around to uploading the photos from the dinner party and, putting on my best "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" voice, they are to be viewed in a nostalgic 1950s humourous style (for those of you with trombone arms: just click on the little pictures for the big picture!):
Scrapbooking wise I've not been very pro-active. I did complete one LO which I have been trying to complete for months. You know what I'm talking about. The LO you take to each and every crop, pull out of your tote, shuffle the photos around on the page, play with the embellishments and then end up putting away saying "I'll have a look at it another time!". The same LO that then stays in your crop bag untouched until the next cropping day where you take it out and repeat the whole process again. And again. It's not that it was a hard photo to scrap. It's not. I mean look at that photo. It's just that I really wanted to do justice to it, not over crowd and take any focus away from it. I also was adamant that I wanted to use this particular range of Christine Adolph paper as it is just so 'right' for the photo. I also knew that I wanted to use that quote too (from the movie To Have and Have Not). Anyway, I finally completed it and I'm really pleased with it too. It's my current favourite and will be until I do the next LO, LOL!
Life is settling back in to the school year routine. Noah is slowly settling down to school life. We have had a few incidences where he, shall we say, has physically shown his displeasure with children who either annoy or irritate him. But his teacher and I are teaching him other tools in which to handle himself on these occasions. I must admit to feeling a little guilty about sending him to school at such an early age and have asked myself whether or not I should have held him back, at least for this term, but apart from him needing to learn how to control his temper, academically he is more than ready. And most importantly he loves school, is desperate to learn how to read and spell and obviously isn't unhappy there as he is currently demanding to be allowed to stay at school for lunch. How can you explain this to a 'just 4' year old? His sisters take their lunches to school, why can't he? But he needs to only be going for half days at the moment, he is exhausted when I pick him up at lunch time. However, it is only for a little longer as after the October half term he will be staying until after lunch, still only half days, thankfully, but at least he will feel happier trotting off with his packed lunch with 'the sisters'.
I also applied for a job. I feel ready to get back in to the work force but am trying to avoid falling back on the old steady of accountancy. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed it once but it wasn't a career path I chose. It chose me, I sort of just fell in to it and luckily happened to be quite good at it. But each and every time I've stopped work, due to popping out more children, I have promised myself that I wouldn't go back to it, that I'd do something I really wanted to do, not just take the easy option. However to be honest I don't think it would necessarily be the easy option now. I have been out of the work force for so long that I'm completely out of touch with the current tax/company rules and regulations and ought to go back to study in order to get a decent job. I would really have to be desperate to further a career in accounts to do this and quite frankly I'm not. Desperate that is! Unfortunately I heard yesterday that I didn't get the job I applied for. It was, apparently, a very close call but close calls do not get you the job. I would be lying if I said I wasn't really, really (and I mean really) disappointed, because I am but that's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes, isn't it?
Onwards and upwards, eh?
Finally, and I apologise for my verbal verbosity (is that an oxymoron?), I have restarted at the gym. Well I say restarted, I went twice last week and this week not once so... but it's a start... it's better than not having gone at all... and this week isn't over yet...
Oh, and I feel sure I owe someone a tag but I can't remember who tagged me and what the tag was, so if it was you then feel free to drop me a gentle reminder.
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