Rollerblading videos

sickness and fun

LAst week was the Adams half-term week so no school!! His grandma and kim came up to spend the week becasue I still had to go to school! They spent the week wreaking havoc whereever they went; park, beach, wacky warehouse, lidl, asda (adam really wanted to go to tesco), and lidl. Carys had two days at Ria's and then the rest of the week with her nana and adam and kim.

Adam FINALLY learned to use his rollerblades. He roped in Carys to help him.

the school called me on Monday and I had to go pick Adam up. He had a a high temperature and was snotty. So we had all day in bed with a DVD. Tuesday I woke up with a sorethroat and a cold! Carys is gettign chesty again! Patrick is off to London next week so I will be on my own with the two rascals.

I have completed our VISA applications and all systems are go for china! Patrick has started jumping up and down with glee already! We were booking hotels in Hong Kong when he *realised* that the time we are there coincides with the worlds BIGGEST electronics fare in the world! He also just *happened* to find a hotel for us to stay in right across the street from the exhibition center. Hmmmm... something fishy going on here I think!

Parental Controls

Parentl Controls on a computer might be a contentious issue to those in society who claim it to be an abuse of childrens rights however, in this house parental controls is used to limit computer time for Adam. He logs in under his id and once his hour or two hours is up, it locks kicks him off of it. Similarly, it is used to keep James off of some of the more mature sites on the internet.. you know, the ones seventeen year old boys are likely to visit if given the opportunity. So yeah, I am all for the use of Parental Controls. Keep reading, this post has a point.

I go to log on to the PC the other week and try to load up my favourite social networking website, facebook, and it wouldn't load! I tried and tried, and evenutally had to resort to phoning tech support (ie Patrick) who told me I was spending far too much time on it when I should be studying so he took it upon himslef to put ME on parental controls! He has blocked the facebook site from our home network and I don't have the knowhow to reverse! HELP!!!!

carys ironing

Carys ironing.
Carys was being very helpful this morning. She decided to help me iron the mountain of clean clothes that has taken over our dining room table. Together, we pledged a oath to banish the laundry demons that have prevented us from USING our dining room table to actually eat on for since Thursday! Not to mention an imminent visit from the M.I.L, arrivign with the gorgeous Kimberly to visit for the week. Carys and Adam spent the whole night in their own beds .. wee heee!!!

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!

Happy valentines day!!! Thank you NiNA Cessie for all the sweeties... we have gone through most of them but will be having the hearts today!!!

I haven't done any sticking and pasting for valentines this year but hope to change that this morning.

The boys are asleep. so me and carys willwork on something constructive

Waking up is hard to do!

This week has been a mish-mash of runnign around playing catch-up.

Not once have I been able to crawl out of bed before 7:50 am. This not good. Patrick can stealthily awake at 7, leave the house for half past 7 and I am still snoring ... none the wiser. What's even more worrying is that my children are sleeping in with me! I mean .. I used to count on them to be my alarm clock... I am ACTUALLY gonna have to set one!

Patrick has the right idea. If you are awake, and the kids are not, then you HAVE to practise you secret agent skills because they hear every squeak. So Patrick, you must be ready for MI-5 Agent 008.

The kids are eating cereal right now. I want to try giving them a hot breakfast. But it does not always happen. I am hunting for clothes, school uniforms , library books, and PE kits!

Adam stayed home yesterday, he had a cold, so we dropped Carys off at playgroup and then played BEN-10 top trumps.

I have had to tighten the waistband on all of Adam's trousers. He has lost weight, so Nina... all those lovely softish trousers you sent fall off him!

Saturday morning Music

When I was grwoing up I used to both look forward to and dread the Garcia Saturday Morning. My parents thought that Saturday meant get up early and work whereas I thought (along with everyother sane being) that Saturday meant a day for sleeping in and rest. Noooo.... my Saturdays often began with a rooster (my father) cock-a-doodle-doing at the top of his lungs in and out of all our bedrooms, followed by a wake-up wake-up wake-up. Next minute you'd hear the Tex-Mex pumping out of the stereo. To get a taste of our torture go to http://texmexfm.com/index.php/stations/texmex-fm-albuquerque-nm/

My dad would swing his hips around the house singing aloud at the top of his lungs. Rolling over and falling back to sleep was not an option.

The music would be on all morning while everyone did their chores... sometimes we were even able to change the radio station when Dad would go do something outside. Mom would put on the soul legends from the 70's.

I'm posting this now as I sit with my aching hips and legs due to all the dancing we got up to yesterday! We had a classic Garcia Saturday.. the music was on high and we were bopping about the house to the Party Hits of the Sixties.

Carys was practising her hip rolls and Adam's dancing consisted of his sliding up and down the hallway and ninja rolls off the sofas.

Patrick and I took turns providing the Karaoke!

Shoulda' known better....

To all you 'put it off today coz I can do it tomorrow' people. DON@T.

I am so in trouble!

1. Carys has NOT been accepted into school. The school has been oversubscribed. Dunno what to do! Muggins here left it to the last minute( although there was no deadline date or anything!!) to submit forms and some mothers put there kids down before their kids are born!

2. As a result of the above Carys might not have a childminder.... as hers will not be able to pick her up from another school. I wonder if I can take Carys on placement with me?

3. My car insurance expired on the 25th Jan and they renewed it automatically at an insanely high price.... which I have to pay for the last 10days!!! Believe me its canceled now!

4. I received a court summons today for a driving offence I committed last August. I paid my fine but 'forgot' ( it is still on the desk, sealed in an envelope and addressed to the ticket office and has been since Sept last year) to send my driving license in to be endorsed. Have been on the phoen to sort that out.

5. Had I done what I shoulda when I was supposed to I would have been able to do some uni work rather than become a stress head.

6. I had to call and cancel a dentist appointment yesterday last minute because I forgot I'd made it and I had to be somewhere else. I'll be lucky if I don't get dropped off the list!

Yes, I have a diary. I am great at writing things in it.... not so great doing what it tells me to do!

Can i have a psychoanalysis please?

Carys was tired today..... she is in bed. She had yogurt and peanut butter sandwiches for lunch. She chose it.. I just made it.

I'm gonna go read my Barack Obama book, I have nothing else to do today that can't be done tomorrow... JUST KIDDING!

Found this today in my web travels.....

"My mother was a good mother, but she didn’t really believe in keeping house. She had grown up in a family of New York bohemians who believed that a clean house was the sign of a wasted mind. Keeping house was viewed as an exercise in futility which, ultimately, it is."

I like to think Adam would say this about me one day... :-).

photos to 'little miss carys' take on little miss muffet

These were photos I could not upload the other day!

Adam and I had our computer class today. The school has a class for kids and their parents to work on the computer. Our first session a sew weeks ago was on designing a front cover in word art.... Adam enjoyed it. i was suprised today when we revisited word 2007 he remembered excatly how to do it!! We made greeting cards and played science related games on the internet. Their are about 10 kids and a mixture of mums dads and grandparents. It is good to see such a variety of 'carers' taking part in the lives of the kids.

I seem to have to give some people in my neck of the norhtwest some credit. In an era of 'close you doors and don't speak to your neighbour' attitude I have met some really nice people recently. There may yet be a future for society.

On the snow front..... it all melted.

One to three and one two three

I bought a dvd from tesco the other day...

I watched it.....

I nearly pee'd myself laughing as I did so... Leticia Dean looks like she's constipated the whole way through!

I just couldn't do anything for laughing....

I will try again tomorrow minus the hysterics!

SNOWFLAKES ON MY NOSE

As I have deadlines looming it is fitting that I choose now to blog about past events in the hope of putting off the inevitable exercise fo the grey matter that constitutes my brain!

French week at school was entertaining. Adam learned the french alaphabet song and how to count to ten. We put on a french cafe and the kids were introduced to chocolate crepes, croissants, pan a chocolat, brioche and madelaine cakes. Adam was fo course interested in the cakes.

Carys spent the afternoon stealing marshmallows aff everyones plate I spent the time pretending I hadn't seen her.... It was easier to let people think she was never fed rather than say no and eithyer 1. cause a tantrum or 2. spend the rest of the afternoon chasing her away from food. Irresponsible parenting maybe.. but hey...everyone needs a day off sometime. :-).

Its SNOWING.... proper confetti, cornflake shaped snowflakes that are sticking! Nothing like those of New MExico's standards but its is so exciting! I love the feel of snowflakes on my nose. It started snowing last night and driving home at about midnight, I had the pleasure of makign the first tracks through the streets! There is something so fiendish about messing up a blank.. serene looking canvas that was our street! I am writing with glee as I recall those moments my tires crunched the snow... you know the sound... its that thunk thunk... fab!!! I understand now why some toddlers just HAVE to scribble on a wall..... Carys.. if you only knew.. you've just been given liscence for free for all on the walls in our house!!

Hola! Bienvenido!!

Hola a todos esta manana! Estoy escribiendo en espanol porque patricio me ha comprado una computadora 'laptop'. Supongo que debe a la práctica porque estoy perdiendo! se puede decir que ha comprado para mí, pero lo que realmente significa es que lo encontró en su escritorio bajo una montaña de basura! Mom I have forgotten how to pronounce that word that means junk... its goes something like.. garrero???? Anyway I coudl have made that up!

Kids are fine. patrick took them to Burger King for lunch and to play in their 'play pen'. They had fun.