Monday, April 30, 2007

YES, I'M A VERY SAD PERSON!!!!

Yes, I was excited about my Tesco delivery and to make things even more exciting, it came early!!!!! I know have cupboards, fridge and freezer full of food and some under the stairs as there's not enough room!!!!
Is it sad to enjoy the finer things in life, well Tesco's value things.
Good news - Nick and Lisa have had another little boy, born on Friday, weighing 7lbs 1oz, names Daniel Thomas.
Not so good news - my Auntie Lydia, my dad's sister, who lost her daughter last year, was putting flowers on the grave and felt some chest pains, she took herself out of the cemetery and grabbed a passer-by. She ended up in hospital having had a major heart attack. She has had a stable night but it looks like she needs an angiogram and they can only do that if they transfer her to another hospital, the one my cousin died in - so prayers for her and the family up there in Thetford.

Saturday, April 28, 2007

I bet he was laughing

Well got into work and turned straight round and with Andrew Blyth, headed off to Keith Lloyd's funeral. And as I've said, I bet Keith was laughing, there we were all standing in summer uniform awaiting his arrival and it was freezing. Lots of people commented on how he would have found this scene very funny. As funerals go it was a good place to be, tonnes of people who loved him, who's lives had been touched by him, and people like me, there to support the family members. His wife Madeline did so well and his three daughters did too, his youngest Gillian, give a brief tribute but we all knew how they felt about him as a father by the end of it. It makes you think about your own situation and how you would cope. About 11 years ago my dad had a heart attack, so it make me look back at what he would have missed out on over these past years had he not been so lucky. But, thank God, dad is still here, pains and aches too!!!!
Back to work after that, still in uniform so I got tonnes of comments about was I doing another SP&S shoot!!!
Home, to pick up Max, then Daisi from her school friends and then on to the Luffs. We put the kids down at theirs and had a fab meal, I'll be pinching the starter!!!!! Home to sleep.
And now we sit, Duncan-less as once again he is working on a Saturday. So shortly Daisi has her swimming lesson, Max and I are gonna splash around in the other half of the teaching pool, and highlight of my week - my Tesco home delivery arrives tonight - how totally sad am I!!!!!

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Got a bath running...

... so I gotta be quick.
Yesterday became a little manic, with Lyndon and Lloyd taking a trip to IKEA turns into Lyndon's car blowing up, me going and getting Lloyd and Lyndon stuck in his car for hours waiting for the RAC. Never-the-less Lyndon and Lloyd have worked so hard over the past few days that even Carol Smilie would be impressed. Basically, as of now the whole house has been painted, glossed, carpeted and curtained. Lisa, Lyndon's girlfriend, will get the shock of her life tonight when she returns from working in Egypt, she thinks he's done a couple of walls in paint!!!! I took up all the curtains in the house and, again changing rooms style, I used the off cuts from the curtains to make a tablecloth and 6 placemats!!!! How clever am I!!!!!
Tomorrow, I have work but also have the morning off to go to a funeral. I told you about my friend Kate's dad passing away last week, well the funeral is in the morning so please keep the Lloyd family in your prayers tomorrow.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

'Oh what a night...'

Girlie night our for Kim's birthday - great giggle. Can't really list who went as two of them skived songsters to be there and I wouldn't wanna blow their cover. Food was eaten, gifts were exchanged enough said - eh Kim!!!!!
Prior to that - Singing Co, Denise wasn't well, so with not much notice I took practise. Did all the songs I wanted to go through plus the ones Den needed doing. Singing Co would be such a fab hour if it wasn't for a couple of unbelievably rude little boys - again I'm not naming names. It's not that they talk, most kids do, but when you ask them to be quiet they actually argue back. Denise must be much stronger than me, if I had that every week I'd ask them to leave, she doesn't. Annoyingly, if that's a word, they are two really good singers and I know we have 48 others that can sing but they attempt to sing a part so I guess they are needed and as the song says 'Jesus loves the little children'.
Well, Daisi had a bad dream this morning so she came down this morning in tears. In her dream I had climbed to the top of a Fire Engine and said I was never coming down. I tried to explain that mummy doesn't like heights so it was never gonna happen but she was really upset by it. She obviously has my genetic disorder of dreams - I dream every single night and 9 times out of 10 they are completely off the wall. Sunday night I dreamt I was PA to Robbie Williams and the hotel we were booked into was disgusting so I took him and the entourage to an Army hostel, he thought it was great!!! YES I AM A COMPLETE LOON!!!!!!!

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Terrible Two's

Well as with Daisi, Max has hit the terrible two's slightly early, oh my children are so advanced!!!! He hates being put in the car, pushchair, shopping trolley or anything else that restrains him. So the school run can be a nightmare and I'm fed up of mums who laugh when I know they must have gone through the same thing!!!
My day went fine with the two boys. The Starlings came round and I did Joe's piano lesson. Then, once Dunc and his brother Chris arrived, we had a farewell curry for Chris who today flies to the Congo for the final leg of his IHQ internship.
Today, got Elijah again. I've taken up one pair of Lyndon's new curtains. Would be so much easier if the thread on the sewing machine didn't keep snapping half way through. I think he needs another 3 pairs done - before Thursday!!!
Tonight, Singing Co and then I'm out on the town - will a Chinese buffet in Coulsdon for Kim's birthday...
Happy Birthday Kim!!!!!! Should be a good girlie giggle night, and much needed after an hour of singing co.
Oh oh, forget to say the other day. On Friday at work I was handed a large manilla envelope and thought now what. To my absolute excitement it was volume 14 of Sing to the Lord, the book The Army publish for Singing Companies - and my first composition is in there - how chuffed was I!!!! I'm finally famous for something other than being Dunc's wife or Lloyd's sister etc.

Monday, April 23, 2007

Weekend update

Well I had work on Friday, followed by Daisi's school disco - I'm a member of the PTA, how ancient does that make me sound, so I go to help.
Sat morning Daisi had her first swimming lesson, I was so proud of her, she was fantastic, and I nearly boo-hoo'd at the side of the pool. Next Sat Dunc is working, yet again, so I shall be taking Max in the other end of the teaching pool - the joys of motherhood.
The rest of Saturday was spent visiting people.
Sunday, Army - I got myself worked up, same thing I always do, and if you wanna know, read back over the months of my blog - HAHA that's a challenge. I just need God's help BIG time to keep calm and try and ignore the things that stress me, one shouldn't be stressed in church.
Then back to ours with mum, dad and Lyndon for lunch. Dunc and I then went to Lyndon's new house to help painting.
Daisi off at school today and I've got Elijah for the day so Lloyd can help Lyndon paint - obviously he must be better than me, I'm only good for glossing as it's apparently a girls job!!
Friday - one of my best friends Kate's dad passed away. He was being treated for a huge mass on his kidney. He was a fantastic friendly guy who always seemed happy, so please pray for their family as they deal with this loss. Today is Kate's daughter Alice's 3rd birthday - but Grandad would have wanted everything to go on as normal. Still hard though.
Other news, Lloyd (my ickle brother) and his wife Becky and son Elijah are soon off to sunnier climates. They found out last week that Lloyd's work visa had finally been approved to go and work in the USA, just near Orlanda for a Christian magazine Relevant. So they go off at the end of the summer. It's one of those bits of news when you're both happy and sad - over the moon happy for them, it'll be a great experience, but boo-hoo sad as anything that they'll be so far away. I'm sad that I'll miss some of Elijah growing up. Hopefully, thanks to SKYPE, we'll still see them regularly and we've already started looking at flights to go out - but again, prayers for them all.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Very frustrating!

Dunc had last week off work and over the last few weeks we have had some decking done in the back garden. Dunc worked on the rest of the garden, including grass seeding some areas of the garden that were looking a little bald. BUT, now we can't walk on those seeded areas and I cannot, for love or money, get Max to understand that. So it means in this glorious weather we are stuck indoors until the grass grows GGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!! The local parks could be used but are also a bit yukky and not nearly as nice as playing in one's own garden. Ah, well, hopefully not long. And then it'll snow!!!!

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Tuesday thought no 2

Have just watched the Malteser advert where the girl doesn't feel naughty enough so she flashes the office guy - what would you do???

I think you've all forgotten me!!!

Just because I didn't blog for a while, I have not stopped all together, please let me know you are all still there

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Tuesday thought

If when you die, the only thing they are allowed to put on your grave stone is a Mr Men or Little Miss Character - who would you like people to put on - you can make one up if you like.

Mine would be Little Miss Friendly

Have ya missed me????

No real excuse for my absence, just busy with the kids. Max has learnt to escape from his cot - I have video'd it (yes I'm a sadistic mum) and if I can suss out how, I'll share it with you all - it's worth watching and might earn me and Max £250.
Other than that not masses of excitement - we now have decking out the back of the house, nottotallye finished as our decker - Dunc's brother-in-law - is now in Spain on holiday for two weeks.
What else??? I offered to do the Father's Day service at the Army. Last year, 3 weeks before Mothers Day our CO's mum passed away and I couldn't watch him struggle through a Mother's Day meeting so I took it off his hands. He did really well this year for Mothers Day and then sadly in the week following his father passed away. So I gave the offer again and am now also doing Father's Day. Already got it sussed, very organised as I am, and got someone else to do the sermon - to me that's the hard part.
Easter Holidays for 2 weeks, lots of winging Daisi as she gets very bored, gotta go out lots!!!!
Dunc's brother Chris surprised us on Sunday by returning, we knew he was back for Easter but thought it was maybe the end of the week, so that was a lovely surprise. He noticed a huge difference in Max who is now saying a lot more than just gobble-di-gook!!!
Lent - I've given up chocolate and Dunc's given up coffee, he had headache's at first and I just can't wait till Sunday!!!
So, I've decided to copy my brother who has a Thursday thought, I'll have a Tuesday one!!!