So I haven't blogged in a while... but I have been meaning to. Where to start... the kids are watching Tangled and Alice is sleeping, the house is acceptable, no pressing jobs so here goes!
SO firstly we had what seemed like a looooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng Easter holiday - Esther was at school only 2 days in 3 weeks. We spent the first week or so around the house having picnics in the garden and trips to nowhere special but it was fun and relaxing. Then we had an afternoon visit from Ben's bro Dan and his wife Nat and their lovely baby Lucy (who smiled when I picked her up so we know she's a good baby...!) along with Ben's Grandma Shaw before heading off up north to my mum and dad's for Easter. We had the best stay there! The older girls slept in my mum and dad's room with them as there was more space so we only had Alice in with us. We even got out for a date - woo hoo! Easter Sunday Alice started walking! The day before we'd been to an open air museum and we'd let her walk around alot holding our hands and I think it spurred her on to do it herself. She is pretty confident now and always chooses to walk instead of crawl.
The Royal Wedding! Loved it! Ben had to work (on a bank holiday, just wrong) so I enticed the girls to sit and watch it.I had it on from 8am with a little break to give the girls a bath but I couldn't stop watching every minute of the build up, loved the trees, the flowers, the dress, the bridesmaids and even the speech the Bishop of London gave - one bit I really liked - he said marriage had the power to transform each person but not if one of the people had the intention of 'reforming' the other. I almost wish I'd gone to London and been there for the hype and excitment but I suppose it wasbetter to be able to see every detail, even those I didn't know I wanted to see, at home in the comfort of my living room!
Esther had a bit of trouble going back to school after the holidays. She got to the point of faking stomach ache and crying from the moment she woke up and also before bed. It reached a peak 2 weeks ago and I had a good old cry about it. I just didn't know what to do. I'd prayed, fasted, she'd had a blessing, I'd tried to think of every way to help her but it was getting worse and worse. Then on the way to school I had told her that the day could go quicker if she was happy so I challenged her to try it and told her that only she could choose to be happy,no-one else could make her happy. It turns out she listened to me and tried it and ran out telling me it worked! I took the opportunity to speak to her teacher about the situation and she told me Esther had told her she was scared of one of the junior kids teachers, Mr Frost. Esther had mentioned it a while ago but I didn''t think much of it.Turns out he told off some of the children(not Esther) in her class during an assembly because they were misbehaving and now she asks the teacher every play time which teachers are on duty incase he is on duty. Poor Esther, poor Mr Frost! Thankfully things turned around from then on though she still says she doesn't want to go but doesn't cry anymore.
Ben finally got an employee to replace him in his old job so I think Ben can see light at the end of the tunnel. He's been doing 2 jobs for over a year now.
Eliza is sitting next to me and wanted me to write her name. She is doing well, loves playgroup and loves riding her scooter. She is hilarious and makes me laugh with her crazy imagination. She is starting to write her name now. She can do a kinda recognisable E l i -I think it needs a bit more work before we attempt the rest!
We have matching curtains in the living room/dinning room! Oh life's little pleasures!
My mum came to stay so I could get on top of the things that need doing in the house. We now have a respectable spare room once I sorted out all the stuff that needed to go in the loft. The downstairs toilet is now a downstairs toilet/art studio for the girls since it's pretty big plus we had nowhere else for the easel to fit. Aren't mum's the best?!
I have got some pictures to post so that's the next job!
2 comments:
Love the new look blog!
Love the update! It all sounds so familiar...we just had our first experience of a "fake" tummy ache this weekend...we totally got dupped and both felt really dumb later when we realized that she got us!
So glad that you're making strides on your house...somehow that is just so rewarding to get little things like curtains and other decor figured out! I've got to see a picture of the art studio in the "lou"?!? The bathroom on our floor is so amazingly small that it's hard to imagine!
Wish I could have watched the wedding with you and Auntie Bex! That would have made it perfect...as it is I've enjoyed reconnecting with my British side this past month!
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