An observation...

I biked (yes biked!) down to the shop tonight, to find that it was incredibly busy there!  Apparently 7pm is rush hour on a Saturday night because it is full of people heading out for the night.  There were a number of men who wore t-shirts with slogans on, which I observed seemed to run along two themes.  The first, generally worn by younger men have witty catchphrases that are I suppose designed to replace chat up lines, their goal seems to be to entice pretty young ladies.  The second theme, was mostly worn by older men, with catchphrases that belittled their wives.
Now make your mind up fellas which side you are on!  You spend all this time and effort enticing a woman, to have a stag weekend in some hot country (or Newcastle), to get married and then moan about said woman!
I have to say that I am certain all men are not like this!  My own very dear husband, has I know, always dreamed of marriage and children and appears to be contented.
Perhaps their is a niche in the market there...T-shirt slogans for the happily married men!

Aquafit!

I have just done my second class of Aquafit and I am so pleased I have made myself go because I feel so much better for it!  I leave the class feeling totally exhilarated.  I want to do more exercise but I am finding it hard to find time to do it which is so frustrating because it helps me cope with "life".
I am also enjoying the shopping trip with Jamie after Aquafit.  This week in an absolute determined effort to please Martin, Jamie fetched a broom from the household section of a Tesco to reach a bottle of Dr Pepper from the back of the top shelf. So funny!  Martin, I hope you realise what a lucky man you are.

Full time...

I have been wondering for a while about what to do when Nathan goes to school full time.  It is a possible that I may be offered a full time TA position at school, but I'm not sure that I would want to.
For the last few days and next week I am working full time.  So far it has been ok, but I am exhausted when I get home! 
And though the extra money would be nice, I have been looking forward to having the afternoons to myself as a time I can start to get myself back in shape physically and mentally after being a stay at home Mum for about 6/7 years!
Hmmm!

Days at the park

 Nathan was so proud of himself because he learnt how to swing on his own! 

 Peek-a-boo!

My circus performers!

Cinema trip

With Caitlin away at her Dad's house, and Lewis packed off to the beach, the boys and I decided on a visit to the cinema.  We went to see Hop, which was very cute and fluffy.  There were nine people in the cinema including us so it was nice to have some space.  Nathan is such a cutie at the cinema; every time a song comes on during the film he gets up and dances. So you see why we need the space!

Pretty things

So I am pretty exhausted this week, but more of that later, but I was sat thinking to myself, I really should put some more pictures on the blog.  So off I go to fetch my camera, which was in the car of course, and when I went outside it was throwing it down with rain!  However, it was such a refreshing rain that I took a moment to take a couple of pictures of my tulips in the rain.  It is so lovely to have some rain, the grass looks such a beautiful green when it is wet, and tha air is so much nicer to breath.

Royal weddings and pancakes

 So unless you have had your head in the sand you may have noticed that we recently celebrated the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton.  I'm not sure if all of the Primary schools did this but I know both Wootton and New Holland gave these cups to each of the children, which I thought was lovely.  I celebrated by hanging out the Union Jack bunting and the Union Jack flag - though I don't need much of an exuse before I go to fetch my flag!  I watched some of the wedding, but my Dad grumbled most of the way through it so I will sit and watch it tomorrow evening while Lewis is at work.

And so to pancakes.  As we had a long day ahead of us yesterday, I decided to start the day off with some pancakes.  Caitlin, ever the fearless one, had a go at flipping pancakes and did so rather sucessfully!  More on our day in Chorley next time, when I am not so tired and have the laptop functioning!