What a weekend

What a busy weekend but how satisfying to accomplish so much and have a tidier happier home at the end of it.... After the last 3 weeks of driving 52 miles a day doing the school runs costing us nearly £40 a week I was ready to drop on Friday... luckily Mr P has been able to pick up Jamie from school at 3:30pm so I get an afternoon off...
Friday morning while Danny was at pre-school the sky man came and fitted our sky dish and we are now flicking through more channels than can be healthy but as we never go out socialising and Mr P missed Overhaulin and Mythbusters I caved in and let him have sky again...

Saturday morning saw a hive of activity cleaning and tidying the postman delivered Jamie's bus pass so I no longer have to drive her 44 miles a day to school ... to say I am pleased and relieved would be an understatement, Jamie's friend from school came over and they started designing their fancy dress costumes for an 8 mile sponsored walk they are doing at school on Wednesday... needless to say I dug out some transfer paper and they printed designs off the computer which I then fumbled my way through ironing onto a white t-shirt... Jamie's friend took hers home for her mum to do... Jamie then spent the afternoon at her friends house... we dropped Danny at mums and headed off to the garden of an elderly family friend and mowed, pruned and tidied her garden.... after a quick coffee we loaded Mr P's van and he headed for the recycling center and I headed for the electrical store....
it had been decided that we really could do with a freezer as I was at a complete loss as to what to do with all my apples so I quickly chose a under counter freezer and I also bought a combination microwave oven

Mr P headed home with new electrical bits and I zipped off to mums to collect Danny and get home by 6:30pm as Jamie would be home at 7pm...

Now if I can get my head around all the new technology (obviously a freezer is fairly simple) I will hopefully be able to simplify meal times and still be able to watch that programme I would have missed while preparing it... if I can get it off the cartoon network and Disney channel for 2 minutes! ;D

Sunday was slightly less manic... only slightly though... in a bid to get a little more storage space in the kitchen I rescued a pine shelving unit from the garage and with Danny and Jamie bundled into the car I headed for the DIY store... we bought undercoat and white gloss and some magnetic blackboard paint (more about this another day)
Of course we had to have ice cream before we came home and then I returned to undercoat the shelves... I have managed one coat of gloss before Mother and father in Law arrived for afternoon tea... Then it was home work done, tea then showers and baths and uniform and school bags all ready... and

phew....

So off I pop to tidy the bombsite that is my horrid little bathroom and I find a friend.... where he came from after all the activity I do not know but if Jamie knew she was not alone in the bathroom when she showered I believe the screams would have been audible on Mars...

Jamie does not do spiders.... especially big ones

So I can only assume that frosts will soon be upon us and the spiders and mice will be heading somewhere warmer and so long as its not my house I am happy!

I have been quite low the past few weeks, tired and very fed up with my lot but today as I drove to pre-school with Danny I listened to him singing in the back of the car never has a rendition of "12345 once I caught a fish alive" sounded so sweet from a 3 year old and I realised that everything around me looked somehow brighter and clearer... perhaps my mind and my soul are restoring themselves but to say I was considering asking the doctor for medication to help me cope I think I might be okay now though... I still feel fuzzy and spaced out but I think I may be cresting the wave and rising from the depth of the swell... the immediate future feels less worrying so on that note I had better get on and collect Danny from pre-school and after we have had lunch I will give that shelf another coat of paint....

take care everyone
thanks for popping by!

x Alex

Edited 21/09/09 at 1:20pm
Change of plans... while the sun is shining we are off to the shop to get an ice cream and then going to the swings and slides for a play and a picnic... its suppose to rain tomorrow I can paint shelves then... live for the moment and all that!

big hugs!
A