Am I sad?

..to be waxing lyrical about rice pudding? We cooked for the old folks today and Karen made an especially yummy rice pudding with black cherry compote which was the perfect thing for a freezing cold January day. Comfort food at its best, and I admit I might sound rather middle aged in getting excited about such a down to earth thing, but at this time of the year in this economic climate it's been the highlight of my day!

It's still freezing...

I am such a Brit with my weather obsession. Kids were stuck at home today with the heating broken at school while I got stuck with this dreary drone at court who just loves the sound of his own voice - I mean, why tell a boring story in a few sentences when you can have a captive audience chewing off their own body parts waiting for the end of the tale. Worse still, he talks to me as if I was 4 which makes me want to stick pins in his eyes. Hopefully I won't have to sit with him for a while as he does my head in - another triumph of the justice system, he just goes on and on until you agree with his solution for sentencing etc. I learnt what filibustering was when reading Barack Obama's book 'The Audacity of Hope' - good book so far, I like his writing more than I expected. Anyway, thank goodness this guy isn't a politician, he would be the champion filibuster of all time - funny that he never found a wife really!

Meanwhile, I maintain my membership of the Bad Mother's Club by being completely unable to find DS2s PE kit this morning - usual story, it was buried under a pile of teddies in his room, however, even better than usual, it was still unwashed, I mean, I usually manage to get it washed before I lose it, but this time it's festered for 2 weeks in it's lovely PVC bag - yum! Still, at least I don't have to wear it. Worst of all, as I still wallow in post-Christmas ineffectiveness, it was DH who managed to find it, I couldn't even manage that!

So that's my day - freezing feet, boring blokes and smelly PE kit. Can't wait for tomorrow!

It's been an age....

I can't quite believe how long it's been since I blogged on here -in my head I do it a lot, in practice? well you can see.

Anyway, new year, new resolution and all that, I'm going to try and get a bit more down this year. Starting today:

- woke up to snow, that's unusual in itself - didn't last long but at least it was white for a bit!

-woke up late - big kids went to school, then got sent home again, result for them, but Nat and I stayed asleep for a long time.

-car is in the garage AGAIN - this car is literally driving me round the bend! We have spent so much money on it and it is still causing us problems. I wish we could just ditch it and get a new one, but credit crunch etc etc we'll be stuck with it for a while yet. Funny that I was thinking we should get the same again next time - NOT ANY MORE!

- Debbie and Daniel popped in for a cuppa earlier - nice to catch up after the hols.

- Scrapping aims for this year - to get more done, use up my stash - same old same old, but I still love it, trouble is, I take more photos than ever I scrap, and I keep taking them. I really need an extended period of house arrest (with internet access and pizza box delivery) to catch up.

I have done 2 LOs over the holidays - didn't even dent the stash - Studio Calico you have a lot ot answer for! So much lush stash, and not just to stroke hopefully!

Finally, I have decided to try and do the 365 photos for this year - managed so far - just. Not going to post them all on here though - that would be much to much effort and organisation, but maybe some highlights?...

Watch this space, it's a bit like watching paint dry, but just occasionally I might surprise myself.

Bloody Neighbours

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrr - I am feeling seriously pissed off at our neighbours who just shouted at Ellie for going to ask for the boys' ball back, what miserable, crabby no-life morons, they are annoying enough as they smoke all the time and it gets in our house which makes it smell awful but now they have just shown how mean they can be - I mean shouting at a nine-year old who was going to ask for the ball not just take it. Any remains of a neighbourly relationship is now gone forever as far as I am concerned. I can forgive them, I just don't want to be on the same planet let alone next door.

Altering Behaviour

I got carpeted by the teacher today as my lovely 5 year old 'punched someone in the mouth'. Nobody saw him do it, neither child said much about it, the other child was bigger and older than him but was hurt. He says he was being held on to and was trying to get away, the teacher clearly didn't believe him - what should I do as a mother?

My instinct was that it couldn't be as bad as they said, he is not vindictive nor does he go looking for trouble as a rule, and I don't like kids being punished twice for misdemeanours, but he can't go around causing trouble as he'll get a bad name. Hmmmm - dilemma for me......

advice welcome!

New beginnings

After yesterday I started thinking about why I was quiet atm and one of the reasons is that I hate how I look, so today I joined sparkpeople - I have got to lose weight - I have a great reason to do it now (fab holiday next year) and I feel like it is the last chance saloon for me if I'm not to be huge my whole life.

So here and now I am putting into writing my intentions to stick with this and get to a size I can like myself in - wish me luck, my track record is lousy but I have to start somewhere :)

where did the words go?

I've been quiet recently, especially on here, but in real life as well - I just haven't found the words inside me. I've even had trouble holding my thoughts together. This is a weird feeling as I work with words and would consider myself articulate normally.

See? I'm stuck again. I normally have stuff buzzing all around my head, but in clear streams, now it's just buzz. does it bother me? Yes! What can I do about it? Not sure.

Maybe it's just summer inertia.......