Let's start over.

Hello my friends,

It's been a while. Life in the Random family is hectic. Life with three children  means we always have something to do or somewhere to be. 

I'm hoping to get back to blogging regularly but I won't promise it, just in case it doesn't happen. 

 I look forwardto catching up with all of you soon.

X x x

Oh for Pete's sake!

We just can't catch a break! Now its a tummy bug!

Tuesday night Gman had an upset tummy overnight, Wednesday it was me and DD2 being ill, last night

I was woken up by DD1 being ill and finally this morning the Hubby was taken out!

To be fair it seems to be a short lived one. Today G and I are back on our feet, I just have some painful stomach cramps but they bugger off after a minute or so if I stop what I'm doing.

DD2 is tired but enjoying some colouring in pages.

DD1 is sleeping through it, Hubby is playing video games and watching them all while I get on with things.

 But I can't help thinking what next?

X x x

Overwhelmed and off to bed....

Hello everyone. My usual apologies for complete lack of anything on the blog.  Life is being a bit of a b**** at the moment. 

It's no one thing in particular really, more a sucess ion of one things.

A preschool and primary school (completely unconnected btw) only holding spring shows at almost exactly the same time on the same days.

Hubbys work loosing some staff suddenly meaning extra hours at work.

Our bed finally giving up the ghost and breaking in a splinter heap.

You get the jist.

 So I have spent most of my time rearranging tickets, organising school and preschool runs and bed shopping. And of course then sitting down finally with a cuppa for five minutes thinking 'where did my day go?' And realising I've not washed one item of laundry in 2 days and underpants are running low. 

I just never seem to catch up but I will persevere.  

Please don't forget me

X

Parents and Parsnips

We recently had DD1's parents evening. Her teacher was full of praise about her hard work and progress. DD1 now receives no extra help in the classroom but will still get an extra 1:1 reading session each week because it's become routine for her and she enjoys it.

We are so proud of her!

As a special reward she got to choose where we ate dinner and picked a nice pub meal.

After our meal we popped into Asda for some petrol, so I decided to pop in store and check for yellow stickers. I'm so glad I did!

One bag of the 10p parsnips and some of the ginger is now a tasty parsnip soup. Perfect comfort food for a chilly weekend!

X

Healthy reboot.

Hello everyone. We're finally getting somewhere at last health wise and long may it continue!

Now everyone is back at work and school its time for a healthy eating reboot.

Aldi super 6 this week are just 49p for leeks, limes, kiwis, swede,  sprouts and tomatoes. 

I've passed on the sprouts and added broccoli and blueberries. No point buying things we won't eat! 

But I'm looking forward to creating some healthy.dinners and snacks with all of these.

X x

A trip to the zoo

We had a lovely family day out today at the zoo. 

We played our usual trick of walking around the zoo anti-clockwise to avoid the crowds. Being half term it was very busy. 

We took a packed lunch of corning pasties, fruit and biscuits. Plus a cheap multi pack of bottled water to keep everyone hydrated.

The girls loved spotting all the animals as we walked around. I was really impressed with their knowledge of animals, DD1 was the queen of facts.

We had our lunch watching the lemurs playing in the sunshine, which led to a conversation about Madagascar. DD1 wants to spenD tomorrow researching Madagascar as we didn't know the answer to several of her questions. Sounds like great fun to me.

X

Valentines Day Fun

We started our Valentines day with a delicious pub breakfast. We all stuffed ourselves silly on all of the continental and traditional English treats on offer. It was lovely to have Gman at the table with us this time. He had a good try of everything on offer.

I spent the afternoon in the garden with DD2. We potted up some bulbs I'd forgotten about in the back of the shed, and sowed some seeds. I also reorganised my aloe vera and potted up four baby plants. I will grow them on for the PTA plant stall I'm running in June. 

While we were outside, Hubby and DD1  had sneaked out to collect my Valentines gift. 13 new fishes! There was supposed to be 12 but somehow an extra fishy sneaked in there. Some have arrived already quite pregnant so hopefully my almost empty tank will be swarming with life soon.

                 What have you all been up too?

                                     X x x