Merry Christmas!!!

AJ and her buddy all ready for their first Christmas party at school....think this is a budding romance!! Apparently he wanted to marry her because she has lovely hair!!

Go AJ!!

She did it!! She is officially a "big" school girl. So "big" that she wanted to walk to school on her own! Poor wee soul...homework on the first day!!

Bridge over troubled water?!?

My it's been ages since I blogged! In my defence with school holidays and work being very busy I've not had much spare time. Also thanks to the two darlings featured in the picture I haven't until recently had the use of a camera. You see along with my camera and other things this holidays theme has been arguing over anything and everything...and some things have suffered along the way...for instance the camera that will no longer take pictures...the mental sanity of anyone involved in helping me look after these two darlings whilst I've been working(thank you both sets of grandparents!)...my food bill, nothing to do with the credit crunch but as the result of continually having to feed the whole street with ice lolly's, crisps, sweets and drinks!

But thankfully the end is nigh because come the 18th August I will be the proud mother of two gorgeous school girls!! The uniforms are bought, stationary supplies in...all systems are ready to go! But for however crazy they have driven me over the past few weeks I might just shed a small tear on that Monday morning...aye right!!!!

Watching the water!

All dressed up!

Seasoned traveller?!?

Close up of pool

View from my hotel room window!

Holidays!!!!

Going to this lovely place for a weeks holiday tomorrow...yipee! I am going to try and blog from there though...or maybe I'll send you all a postcard!

P.S. It's Ibiza

Why?...Update

I was talking to a Policeman who I know today, and we were talking about what had happened at the church the previous week. It turns out that the have caught the culprits for the damage...2 girls! and that the damage in total to all cars was......£24,000! I was quite lost for words. As a mother of 2 girls I give them a row if they even go across someone else's garden(as our street is open planned) I would like to think that the girls responsible for this will be dealt with appropriately but something tells me our lenient law system will let us all down even the girls in question, because if we cannot get over to them the seriousness of their actions and what consequences this will have...what chance do they have of a "happy ever after?"

Why?

I was talking to a fellow blogger tonight, who commented on the fact that I hadn't written anything for a while. I said that this was mainly due to the fact that nothing had really happened. That was until a few hours ago...myself and my fellow blogger along with a good few other people were enjoying a fantastic nights entertainment at our church in Carluke. It was our Girls Brigade parents night and display(the girls were amazing!) but unfortunately for the owners of over 40 cars their night was wasted by the fact that some "lovely" local vandals had keyed their cars. My car(or my husbands pride and joy!) was untouched and I hope my fellow blogger's car was all right as well. I worry about the sort of society my 2 children are growing up in and can only wonder about what sort of upbringing that the persons responsible for the pointless vandalism can have had and can only hope that this isn't the path that they chose to stay on for the rest of their lives.

Beautiful Skipton

Ha!

Loving sisters!

Poor AJ

Typical...School holidays and poor AJ has been at the doctors already! She has got really bad tonsillitis...so I have tried to tell her that she is not allowed to speak for a whole week! She has been a poor wee soul since this hit her on Saturday night when we realised how not well she was when she knocked back ice-cream! However I think she is quite liking the not well lifestyle...bed on the couch and ice lollies!

Horo..what?

Do you read your Horoscopes? I do every day..my hubby laughs because most days I'll shout "I know someone with a name that begins with the letter D" or agree with any other random statement! So when my morning paper came through the door today I eventually reached the Horoscope section...found my star sign and started to read. Have you ever had De ja vu? I did today for as I was reading today's predictions I was slightly confused for I had heard this before..yesterday to be more exact. Have a read yourselves...
Sat 29th March
Cancer
Your ruling light the moon shines on your partnership chart and you could discover who has love plans for you. You have peace-making skills and can get two people you care about talking to each other again. Linking with a Virgo relative can have a lucky outcome.
Fri 28th March
Cancer
Your ruling light the moon lights your partnership chart and you could discover who has big love plans for you. Your peace-making skills can get two people who you care about to talk to each other again. Linking up with a Virgo relative can have a lucky outcome for both of you.

Can you see what I mean and every other horoscope was the same...the odd word here and there, but plain to see the exact same predictions for both days. My hubby was laughing as I emailed the paper today...but I think they should be looking for another predictor!

Fuzzy fun!

Fuzzy felts...best thing ever invented...kept me amused after my lovely Easter dinner at my mums!

Best of friends

Dear God

AJ came home from nursery at 11.45, had her lunch and then started to watch her favourite tv channel..Nick Jnr. Two minutes into this she started complaining that the picture wasn't working, I tried to explain that the naughty wind was making her programmes stop working. She the asked me "How do you talk to God?" I told her you need to say your prayers hence the pose in the picture. As I was leaving to go into the kitchen I could hear her speaking very softly..."Dear God...hello...can you make the naughty wind stop...marys court...lanark...scotland...it's breaking my telly...thank you...and I can't watch my programmes" If only it was that simple!

Happy Mothers Day!

Happy Mothers Day to all you mothers out there..including me! But a special mention to my mum...Katie...hope you like your prezzies!

SIMPSONIZED

A while back I simpsonzed all my family..saved them to my computer and forgot all about them..but I felt they should be shared...hence my blog photo...enjoy!

GRAN

PAPA

AJ

H

Mr Alice

Happy Valentines Day!

Happy Valentines Day! Hope you all got a card from someone special...still waiting on my large bunch of flowers from my hubby though!

Peace at last

I think I love her the most when she is sound asleep! Yes sound asleep and silent! AJ now spends most of her day asking me what things are made of...from televisions to water, cars to jelly and I have to admit there are somethings I just don't know what they are made of. This is not helped by the fact that her daddy told her that everything is made of something, so when I tell her wood is made of wood she will just not accept that answer and just keeps repeating the question..Pity the poor teacher that gets AJ in August!

Wonderful!

Has anyone got Nick Junior? If you have I hope you have all seen the excellent new programme they are showing..if you don't have it poor you, you don't know what you are missing!
The Wonderpets are a trio of animals who live in a nursery and they save animals in trouble after all the boys and girls go home...and even better it's set to fabulous music and they sing the whole way through it! Even better than that Santa brought AJ the Wonder Pets CD for her christmas and I now listen to it constantly in the car even if the children aren't with me...my favourite is the one about the poor little puppy who needs to pee pee! Seriously this is one not to miss!

Great!

And its my weekend off.... Typical!

Bad snow!

All gone! Come on weather make your mind up!

Good old snow!

I love snow!! Love it so much that I hope lots of it falls tonight and we all get snowed in and don't have to go to work or school!

Finally!

The most exciting thing happened to me last week..well not including the birth of my children or getting married! I bid on and won a dishwasher on Ebay! I lovingly fill it every night, select the programme, pop in a tablet and shut the door....and every morning beautiful sparkling dishes! I have always fancied a dishwasher but thought I can do them as quick so I never really pursued it...but oh how many hours I have wasted at the kitchen sink...now all I need is an ironing machine and I'm sorted...Happy washing!

Retro

Our Church choir started rehearsals again this year on the 7th January, and the highlight of the first night back is shortbread and shloer to celebrate the new year.....and before anyone thinks a church choir doesn't have many "highlights"you should have been there last night when our very proper choir mistress asked us to "fart" at the beginning of the hymn instead of start! Anyway our organist had provided some very lovely homemade shortbread and some light refreshments and she was very delighted with a bottle she had found in her kitchen cupboard. "Homemade Ginger Beer" she declared "I didn't know I had any left...it should be fine!" I opened the bottle for her and to my surprise it fizzed just like it does when you open a bottle of any carbonated juice...not only was it not a bottle of homemade ginger beer....it was a 22 year old bottle of Barr's Strike Cola and it had went out of date in September 1985!! That would have been one way to finish the choir off!

Hands up if you want to go to School

Today I did something very important for AJ....I registered her for school!!! And what makes this even more monumental is that she actually wants to go and even picked a school skirt and cardigan when we were in Asda today(of course it was the next size up so she can grow into it!) I had to laugh however when the headmaster asked if she was anything like her older sister..quiet and well behaved? No....I have put a bet on with him that she will be the only child to be enrolled and expelled in the one year! It got me thinking however about how different the two of them are..H is quite happy to lie and read, watch her dvds or surf the net. AJ wants to be in and about you, touching things she shouldn't and entertaining you with her latest made up song(the one this morning according to her Nursery teacher was all about dog poo!) But it's at night when they are heading to bed that they are the exact same as each other never without a cuddle and a quiet "I love you"

So much to touch!

Science Centre

Glasgow Science Centre well worth a visit....what a great way to spend a Saturday!

Happy Birthday!

Mum celebrated her birthday on Friday so I put my talents to good use and made her a lovely birthday cake finished off by using smarties to make the numbers of her age....didn't think there was that many smarties in the one tube! Ha ha ha!