It seems I've hit the wall one day too early. The minutae of my childrens' lives has become just too much to cope with. Yesterday was sports day and after spending 2 hours on Monday night looking for yellow hair dye, yellow socks and yellow hair ties, all my kids could gripe about was the fact that I couldn't find yellow face paint (yellow team, ( Read more... )

I have booked my tickets for the summer. Had I not procrastinated so long, I would have had it organized the way I wanted. But then hubby threw a curve ball, as he does, by telling me I had to go to Wimbledon with him. I know you're thinking "poor pookie has to go to Wimbledon", but honestly I can't think of anything I'd like to do less than watch ( Read more... )

One of my closest remaining friends just came to pick up her daughter from a playdate with Victoria. She stayed for a glass of wine (or 2) and we had a nice chat. But she's moving in three weeks to Spain for a year enroute to eventually settling down in Switzerland. She's funny in that in the last weeks before she moves, she's refusing to socialize ( Read more... )

A PTA acquaintance who's husband is a spook of some sort was all excited about buying a new dress because she's meeting the US president at the embassy this week or next. So I asked her if she'd poke him in the eye for me. She got this hurt look on her face and said "No, I am going to shake his hand" oops!Didn't mean to spoil her fun but who knew ( Read more... )

Look who turned 10 today. How the hell did that happen? Sometimes it seems like yesterday and sometimes it feels like a lifetime ago.


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Usually we wait until New Year's, but we're off to ski tomorrow first thing, so all the Christmas stuff had to be put away. It's always sad to take down the tree. It's one of my favourite things about Christmas. I've collected ornaments since I was a kid and I have quite a beautiful collection. Many of them are too heavy for a real tree and some of ( Read more... )

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SO glad I didn't yield to temptation and by Seasons 1-3 of 24 at HMV this aft. It's £33 cheaper at Amazon!!!!! Even The Bourne Identity which I did buy was £1 cheaper. Live and learn. Had fun today tho.

hmmm Ben and Jerry's!

bye!

woo hoo! Internet shopping at it's finest. Portable DVD player arrived today...multi-region AND dual voltage. I can play DVD's from home, I can play them at home, I can play them on a plane and in a car, and I can play them near and far. I'm so psyched I'm channelling Dr Seuss! Don't mind me, it's been a while since I bought a gadget ( Read more... )