just another morning here

No time to write one though, definitely no time to be adding photos, either! I do wonder, when there’s been an extra day in the weekend, how I’ve managed to end up still feeling as though there wasn’t enough time to get everything done. Laundry – never ending laundry. Cleaning – ditto (and I don’t even do very much of it).

The weekend’s been busy – no Steve all weekend as he was off racing (more on that later). The rest of us had ECO as usual on Saturday morning, then a bit of homework on Saturday afternoon before heading to Poole for a Night at the Movies with the BSO – a concert full of John Williams’ film themes. Joe, Anna and I really enjoyed it – Abbie enjoyed spending the evening with a friend instead!

On Sunday Abbie and I went to join Isca Church handing out doughnuts and coffee at the Great West Run; then we all watched Young Musician of the Year while I folded the laundry and did the ironing. Steve got home and we were very proud of him; he’d won his class on both days and set a new class record

Monday started with some caching in the morning, while everyone else stayed in bed. I got home late morning, as they were getting up. I headed out to help with a community BBQ and the rest of them slobbed around a bit more … then had to finish my school work in the evening. Poof, there goes a long weekend. Blink and you miss it. I could do with three days every weekend.

Apart from that, we’ve all just been working, in our various places, so not much else to report. I’m still loving my new job, I’m very pleased I made the move. Happy.

Josiah went to a friend’s birthday party today and had great fun on quad bikes. They looked a bit tame to Steve and me though … we took part in a navigational scatter rally last week and that was far more fun

I have had a brilliant first week at my new job – I love the school Everyone else has had a good first week at school too – Anna has somehow managed to get some decent results in exams, and Abbie passed her Grade 5 flute so well done all round

Since the Russians left …

On Saturday we went to watch Josiah’s chorister football match, a traditional Easter Saturday event, and stayed for lunch afterwards. Joe decided to come home with us for the afternoon, but went back to the boarding house at teatime; he had a lovely time there while singing in the Cathedral over Easter.

We spent the day with Steve’s family after church on Easter Sunday which was lovely – very relaxed.

Monday was a geocaching day – 35 caches found, two not found – meh.

A new Angry Birds game was released recently, but I decided I wasn’t going to download it until I had completed all the Angry Birds games that I currently have. So I have spent quite a lot of time getting three stars on every level on the main Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons, and Angry Birds Rio last week before allowing myself to download the Space game on Monday. Obsessed, much, me?! I quite like the new one!

Having completed the two Space worlds available I had to buy the Danger Zone add on – it’s very hard and I’m 2/3 of the way through

We’ve done homework; the girls had schoolwork to do and I had a lot of reading/preparation for my new job – I’m still not sure I’ve got my head around it all to be honest. Getting a bit nervous now but I’m sure it will be fine – looking forward to getting stuck in there.

Between us all, we’ve also: had a violin bridge fixed, applied for a couple of new passports, been to the dentist, sent off applications for various summer holiday activities, been to birthday parties, had a sleepover, started on a new Youth Alpha course, been to the cinema with friends, worked (a little), eaten too much chocolate, and had plenty of lie-ins. A good week I think.

We’ve been counting calories fairly seriously here since the beginning of January, and being quite successful so far at losing a bit of weight … but anyway, I decided that I needed a monthly ‘ditch the diet’ day, and today was it

We had a fairly standard Saturday yesterday with orchestra, suzuki violin group, and then a choir concert to facilitate; Steve and I watched a vampire film somewhere inbetween all that. Abbie had a friend to stay, because Anna was away at a SWMS strings residential for the weekend. Oh, and we finished moving the remnants of Steve’s house improvement leftovers out to the garage, having sold the folding camper …

So, anyway, today after church in various places we did some homework (yes, me too), and watched another film before heading up to meet Anna at Kilve where she’d been staying. It was great to hear the results of the residential – some fabulous music performed by some very talented youngsters. We’ve not really heard much SWMS music, especially not any standard classical stuff, so it was interesting from that point of view – and very very impressive.

Anna had had a wonderful time and she even volunteered information about it on the way home ! We stopped for dinner on the way back and blew the calorie counting with curry and a rather large dessert – and now home we have a glass of wine and are sitting in front of the third film of the weekend. Yum

Back to the discipline tomorrow though … the next ignore the diet day is at the end of February!