Weekend once more

As my daughters grandma said today, If there was a competion for moaning, my daughter would win it hands down every time. This is so true!! whatever you can whinge about she did today. Well this afternoon anyway. I appreciate kids don't want to be active all the time and she'd happily sit and watch dvd's all day if she could but we wanted to get out whilst we had some sunshine left, after all it is set to be very wet for the next week or so ( not complaining!! ) So after we did shopping and swimming this morning ( which she is really coming along with, in my opinion) we had lunch at home and about an hour or so we went for our walk. Not 10 minutes in she started to complain that she was hurting, then she was hot and thirsty. Gave her a drink. Still hot, her head was itchy (due to her hat) etc etc.

I tried to make it fun by trying to guess how many boats there would be on the canal, she was the closest with 7 in the end along the way we counted 16 narrow boats! never seen that many before in one go. And most are nice and give and little way or say hello which is always nice!

We went and searched for butterflies, heard some crickets, watched some bees and dragon flies and had a good day for nature... all around the complaining! Not sure how she manages to fit it all in. However we all made it back in one piece, after stopping at a shop on the way back for a cold drink. We did 3 miles. This doesn't sound alot but it wasn't a straight path and had to carry the pram up some steps. It was nice to get out as a family on a walk though, we don't get much chance to do that, and we proved your legs won't fall off either after 3 miles! lol.

Pity i don't think we can buy her proper walking sandles yet, i know this probably didn't help but it was too warm for trainers or something similar!  but finally she is asleep! eczema doesn't look too clever and there are a few new patches :(  also little man has a little patch ( and i do mean little) on his leg but something to watch over!

\And it needs to rain soon as its too muggy for little man to be comfortable !

Worshiping the single parent

I'm not quite sure how they do it, apart from the fact that needs must!! single parents seem to have the crappy end of the stick, bringing up the kiddies with no peace, having to work if they can as well as trying to sort out the work life balance. It must be so hard! I am thankful that my husband is around for weekends and evenings but omg during the day it is so hard!

Went to the library today, and we were late for some reason I thought the activity was 2.30- 3.30.. .no it was 2-3. I got confused with the other time of 10.30-11.30. So we missed half of spooky bingo. ( it was just spooky picture cards. ) so I had a whining 5 yr old as we were late and then continued to whine because she wasn't winning! To top it off little man was screeching, and screeching as he wanted to go and look at the fish but I couldn't leave misses on her own.. so had to endure all that and wishing the ground would swallow me up as it was so embarrassing and someone I use to work with was there! thank goodness I got on with her but still I'm not very comfortable with seeing people from work. Just own personal reasons that and I left whilst on maternity leave so didn't really say goodbye to people etc. Alas water under the bridge

So after the library we popped very quickly into Leigh and got some ice creams so to keep the children happy, we had been at the park before the library so they've not had a bad day all in all. Except when I get, "I'm bored" etc.. I kinda flipped my lid! Being to the park, going to the library (which i paid for ) ice creams bought and all the toys under the sun upstairs and I get I'm bored, or I can't reach that ugh!!  Also eldest wanted to watch what she wanted on tv but I have put my foot down, as we had it on for hours this morning with inane drivel! god help me.

I know I sound awful but I have done stuff with them today and struggled with trying to keep the 17 month old entertained whilst taking the 5 year old out to do something instead of being stuck at home. Hardly a terrible parent. I also pushed both children on the swing plus a friend of my daughters so I'm not all terrible am I??

I will be glad for daddy to be home and at the weekend so there is another voice of authority to back me up. ... So I'm not just the evil parent in the house ;)

Wandering neighbours and ebay selling!

Finally sold one of the tents! it was the more expensive one and it went a bit cheaper then i would have liked but it is gone, as in gone gone!  not even in the house and was all done within an hour! but least its extra money towards the holiday. So so far we have enough for three tanks for fuel which should last for the holiday! Whoo! seeing as money is a bit tight at the moment it will come in very handy!! and that is is only just over a week to go - 10 days ish the purse strings are tightly tied. Come on holiday!


On another note a neighbour in the street, or rather family member of a neighbour as I'm not sure if she is over here permanently or not thinks it is ok to go wandering into other peoples gardens when they are not in. I watched her do it, She went into the next door's garden, tried the back gate, which was locked. Had a wander in the front and then wandered off. I have no idea if this woman has any  issues mentally, i don't personally think so. She doesn't speak English so i can't tell her to bugger off, as she has been in our garden once letting her grandson ride his trike round our car, i opened the door to see what was going on and she just came and jabbered at me in, what i think was polish ( please don't get me wrong i have no issues with people from different countires!) then she wandered off. I have since heard other rumours that she has stolen things from other gardens but i personally haven't see this.

Not sure if we are just over protective of our properties, but i just think this is a huge violation of space considering the person who lives at the property she keeps visiting has been there a couple of weeks now.  Hate confrontations but i think something needs to be do soon. Like a phone call to the community police etc!!

five minutes peace

Anyone read the book, Five minutes peace, featuring the "Large Family"? well today i felt like Mrs Large ( not due to my weight or anything lol) just at the end of the day, I put little man to bed and settled down to have a nap too as i was awake before 5 this morning! sooo tired. So what do i get, "mummy can you read me a story" this was from my daughter, now i don't really begrudge her a story (though she is fully capable atm of reading one to herself) but i was so tired. so i said five minutes.. but she carried on complaining where it meant it woke her brother up ugggh!! Eventually got him back to sleep and went to read her a story under my terms. But doesn't change the fact now that i'm super tired.

I need a really good coffee! But thankfully it isn't long till bed time. And I am hoping i get some decent sleep tonight. The main thing is three days into summer holidays and I haven't killed the children yet ;)!!

Here are a selection of photos from our walk on Monday to the park at Pennington Flash. We are really lucky to live a nice walk away from such a beautiful park. The top picture is of the canal and my daughter this was at 9 am as we wanted to get out before it got to hot, she was trying to get around me  as i said don't keep throwing pebbles in or you'll end up falling in like your uncle... ( i won't embarass you ;) ). Middle picture is a new ish structure that resembles lock doors that we get on a canal it says "unlock" on it. It shows we haven't been down this way for a while as i hadn't seen this before  the bottom picture is the path heading out of the park and towards the main road, i took this as i like forest esq paths. I often find myself day dreaming about such paths. Seeing as i like to write creatively and role play on line ( think online story writing but with others joining in the plot!) i try to imagine these sorts of scenes. That and it is so calm and peaceful! I really am  a nature girl at heart. 

Going to go and get some sleep me thinks and see if it is nice enough to go to another park tomorrow. We need to get out and on the cheap! Take care x  

Rain! and bugs!

Not for the conventional British Summer this year ( so far!) we have had three weeks of sunshine and heat wave without a trace of rain and barely even clouds, until today! but even then where we are there hasn't been that much rain so far!  Not long after we woke up there was a brief thunder storm  and it rained but not for very long and for the rest of the day it's just been very muggy! blergh!! if i knew it wasn't going to rain again i wouldn't have taken mine or the kids coats as we have been out today. 

Today we were at the library again doing "bug craft" which basically came down to making a paper bat, Styrofoam spider and a painted rock thing ( yes thing! i shall have to get pictures later!!) bit of a mess and a faff and very busy! but least it was something for an hour. After that we went and pestered my sister and her family for the afternoon, at least daughters managed to go outside and play for a little bit!

 Silly mummy today forgot to give eldest her anti histamine... and then visited my sisters, very silly thing  to do as my sister has cats and she is allergic but thankfully sister had some eyedrops and a antihistamine or else we would have had to go home! It's not like me to be so unorganised! but this morning it was different with hubby working from home and heading out to the library...must must set myself a alarm. 

I hope some more rain comes tonight this muggy heat needs to go and soon. Id like us all to get some sleep! 

car booting!

Well the carboot is over with and... we still have the tents! O_O not one person was interested which was a real shock to us. we were not asking for silly money, just a reasonable figure as one tent is brand new and the other has only been used once, honestly. I appreciate people don't want to buy something that might have lots of holes in or torn up but i would have happily given them my mobile number and told them to call us back if there were any problems. But no, we had one person saying that he bought them and sold them on, but wasn't interested... er why? and another family saying what we were asking as too much... family tent used once, cost over £100 new and we wanted £50 for it? too much? i don't think so! and the other brand new tent worth £60 we wanted £30 for it. Oh well maybe we are dreaming too much.

A selection of our wares, and i got to sell the bag!! mwhahah! 

Just a pretty picture from Friday at the health centre, lots of butterflies!








But we DID make some money yesterday, though by the end of the day we wanted rid and were selling stuff for 10p!! some people got some series bargains but we didn't want to bring it home! Close eyes and never mind.

Yesterday afternoon wasn't very good in terms of health. Little man fell over and scrapped his nose, head and chin and after that he went and slammed the door on his thumb!! He is ok, thumb is ok just a cut on it  ( that didn't bleed? ) and his face as the usual battle scars! he is too much like his mum and bashes his nose far too often! Poor daughter too was suffering with her legs all afternoon. Honestly its driving me mad. She had heat packs and medicine. Barely ate tea and went to bed. Wish i knew what to do.... and shes been scratching so its that the eczema joy over with?


Well its the first official week of the Summer holidays here! got stuff at the library planned for Tuesday and Thursday. Planning to go to the big park today whilst it is nice, as the rest of the week its set to rain and thunder! Just need the rain to bugger off this time in two weeks!! countdown to holiday is on!!!

Eczema Joy?

Sorry for the lack of quietness yesterday with everything going on and how hot it was I was just not in the mood to try and sit and write something. But today has been better and not so hot so i'm not melting with the laptop!!


For a change my daughter's eczema is actually healing.. I have never seen her skin so calm and it would be typical that after at least 12 months of it being awful and planning a dvd with her dermatologist that when we come to film it that my daughter is fine... well fine for her! no open sores, barely any redness. Nice to touch. in all her 5 1/2 years I've not seen her skin so nice. So what has caused this? and in conclusion I think it is the heat shock horror! at first and in the past with any amount of heat she has flared up horriblely and as the last couple of weeks, pictures and rants have shown it goes bad. But now that we have had this heat for three weeks her body is thinking oooooh I can heal this is nice! And it is, though we are still having problems with her joints and now a wobbly tooth ( don't ask! ) but nice skin and to give her a break even if it is going to be briefly is some relief!
DVD is for the project we are helping out our dermatologist with, it is a new pack that will be given to all "new" cases of eczema in children ( not sure if its adults as well). And we were more than happy to help. Won't go into more detail.. in case i'm not supposed too lol.

Today has seen us spend money on stuff i was not expecting to buy.. couple things for camping. and new clothes for missues, though some things in there are for the new school term! ( i need to spread it out!) However these clothes (apart from the polo tops) were all on sale thanks to Asda lol. Poor little man is the one who missed out today for a change!

Been preparing for the car boot tomorrow and not looking forward to the very early start! but needs must and hoping people will come and buy some things. please!! Just a bit of extra money for our holiday. Fingers crossed for fine weather and plenty people!