Have you seen?
31 January 2009
How many times do you hear this from your children or husband? I hear it constantly. The missing item is always where I say it is, but whoever is looking always insists they have looked there! Sound familiar? I get so fed up with having to go to the cupboard , drawer or wherever and miraculously pull out the lost item, like a magician pulling a rabbit from an apparently empty hat! I must have super powers to make invisible items reappear so effortlessly!
Of course this is not the case. I actually bother to look beyond my nose! A couple of weeks ago a friend was telling me of her approach to this dilemma. If she is called upon to use her ‘magic powers’ she says she will throw the ‘missing’ item away if it appears to be where she said it was! What an excellent idea! Just this week Jim had ‘lost’ a t-shirt. I told him where to find it, but of course he had looked there and it couldn’t be found! At last a chance to try my friends technique! He suddenly decided that perhaps I could be right and he should look again! Too late I’d already found it and it was resting in the bin!
I somehow think he’ll think twice before saying something ‘isn’t there’ again. I just need to teach the children how to look now!
What a great weekend
27 January 2009
We found ourselves child-free in Friday night and through a stroke of genius on my part managed to be child-free until Sunday morning when the boys came home ready to play football. I can’t tell you how good it was to have some freedom for more than a few hours! I love my children dearly, but sometimes it’s good to be an adult and forget about being a parent for a while! It has never felt right to leave my children with a babysitter. I’d never feel comforable and wouldn’t enjoy my night out, so I wait until they are away or staying with family. It was and unexpected bonus to have some free time this weekend as it seems like forever since we last went out and played at being grown up!
Unfortunately this weekend was a last minute arrangement, so we didn’t get to plan anything special. We usually head off somewhere nice for the weekend or go to the theatre. Instead Jim had the pleasure of putting up our new shower screen and we had lovely food, which the boys simply wouldn’t appreciate and good adult company, which again they wouldn’t appreciate - unless it was their teenage friends of course!
I have just arranged another couple of weekends for just the two of us. The first is to see Calendar Girls with the lovely Linda Bellingham. The second is more for Jim than me. For Christmas I bought him a driving experience, so he gets to drive a Lamborghini and a Ferrari and I get to watch! However, my birthday won’t be too far away and I think that New York is calling us, so we’ll have to wait and see…
The new shower screen and how to keep it clean …
27 January 2009
Further to my post about buying a new shower screen and my problems of horrid,orange coloured staining in and around the bath and shower, I can report success on both fronts! The new screen was delivered on Friday as expected. The old screen was easily removed that day and Jim put up the new one on Saturday after resealing around the bath.
Putting the new screen up went really well… to a point! The instructions said to have the side where you screw the shower screen to the wall fitting on the outside. However, Jim did not do this. He decided to have them facing inwards as they did on the old screen, which, incidentally, he paid someone to put up. I only found this out on Saturday when he couldn’t grasp what to do next. I assumed he’d be a semi expert on hanging shower screens! Read more
It’s that time of year again …
27 January 2009
It’s time to renew my car insurance. I had rememberd a couple of weeks ago and so decided to see what I was looking to pay. I got a few quotes; the cheapest being for just over £200, which I thought was OK given my driving history! I waited to see hat my current insurers, Barclays, would come up with and have been disappointed to receive their quote of over £300. I’m afraid that it will be all change this year on that front at least. Read more
Bad Mother?
26 January 2009
I’m most certainly not the Perfect Mother! In fact I used to be a member of the bad mothers’ club! The only reason my membership lapsed is because they wanted us to pay to be a member and I decided to s*d that for a game of soldiers. In fact I still consider myself an honorary member. You know; once a bad mother always a bad mother! No one is lucky enough to get through the parenting minefield without making one or two mistakes. Thankfully, mine haven’t resulted in any permanent damage that I know of, but I wait to pass judgement on that until both boys have reached their 30s at least and have made it that far without needing therapy because of something we did or didn’t do! Read more
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