And there he goes again...

Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to you all....

I know its late but better late than never. We had a very nice and quiet christmas and as a big surprise for the children Phil came home on New Years Eve. Since then we have had a very slow moving life. Due to the weather our car is still down at Phil's parents but we don't mind. If we go to church or the shop we take the sleigh with us so the children can sit down if they get tiered. It's weird to think my parents brought me the sleigh for my first birthday all this years ago. Will it last till my children have their children? We will see.

Unfortunatly by tommorrow we are back to just the three of us again as Phil has to go back to his work for another 3 months. It was lovely to have him back with us for the days and it has showed us how we want to live our life and what we are working towards in the long run. But for now we have to go back being seperate again but I know it will not be forever.

I really enoyed our slow life for the last week or so. I am thriving for having a simple life so decluttering is one big must this year as we have far to much stuff and I am feeling at times how I can't breathe underneath all the clutter around me. More about the changes I am hoping to achive in another post as its getting late and the little princess is still up while her brother snozzes happily upstairs. Night night for now...

Feeling sad

It's been a while again since I last wrote here but life is rather upside down. After 5 weeks of us all being on and off ill seems like we have escape the all the bugs that go around and kept catching us. Phil has been gone now for 8 - 9 weeks; I think as I stopped counting after a few weeks, and its starting to get to me running the house by myself and looking after everybodys needs from children to four legged friends. All I want is a hug and somebody telling me everything will be alright. Its hard when you are trying to be strong and supporting your husband wherever he is and his damn job. Yes I need a HUG!!!

Thoughts

Today I am gratefull for the fact that my two children still have a mother who will kiss them good night and cuddle them whenever they need it.

My thoughts are with the two little children who recently lost their mother. The two girls are very young - one just turned 4 and the other not even 2 years old.

Food

After my fantastic food experience a couple of weeks ago at the wonderfull TM Camp I am really trying to make an affort to cook more healthy. I still can taste the freshness of all the organic fresh homemade food in my mouth. Gosh I never felt so healthy for a long time. It has me inspirited to think more about our food and what we put in our body.

So I splashed out for a new book - Feeding the whole family: Cooking with whole foods. I haven't tried any of receipes yet as my attention got taken away by my dogs diet. After years of feeding them tin food I started to give them dry food last year. So far so good but I have a little sausage dog who is one of most fussy eaters in the world. So most days he would just turn his nose on the dry food and walk back into his bed. Well things had to change. So, I have embarked onto the journey of the BARF diet for dogs. Now I am grating a carrot for them every morning to mix in with their salad, cucumber and apple mix. Yes you are reading right my dogs are also eating veg now and everything is organic as well. Well mixed in with their raw meat I think they have a pretty good diet like they should have if they would live wild. Even the other half commented on how much they liked their new food and how quick it was gone!

Questions

Was it the right decision to send him? I truly don't know. After a nearly head to head with the teacher this morning about not made homework - as boy in question was very tiered and mother in question thought playing on the floor and being a child was more important - I am really wondering if we made the right decision. Apparently everyone else in class managed to do the homework! So what...

No support from other half as usally on the schooling subject.

Feel like crying - very very miserable. When N comes out of school today we gonna have even more work to do as he forgot his homework folder yesterday and as the teacher quoted to me: "Its important that we keep up with the letters in a certain time scale"

What about a child being a child???

P.S. I am sorry if my blog feels its more a rant most times. I promise my next post will be more positive.

Hmmm...

My baby started school today! Not sure how I feel about it as last year I was very sure we would go a different route - home education was my choice but lack to support from other half made it very hard to follow through. I don't mind school but I have a problem with the long hours. Not very sure how I will feel the next couple of weeks with N being so much out of our life.

N, himself, enjoyed his first day at school. At the minute they only doing half days so not to bad. Well to be honest he is looking forward to having his lunch with his friends. Maybe me and his sister are no inspiration anymore!

On a postitve note I am looking forward to spending some 1:1 time with E as we never had much time just the two of us. I am starting a sport class with her next week. I don't think she will be a ballerina girl ever - her favourite toys are her brothers metall cars. She goes crackers if I tidy up their car carpet!

Hello again

It's been another long while since the last time I blogged but I have been away on holiday to see my family in Germany. Two weeks of sunshine and no rain!! Unfortunaltly Phil was not able to come with us as due to work commitment he had to stay behind. But it had its use as I came back to this:

My new tiled bathroom - yippeee!!!!