A weight off my shoulders....

We have decided to take the house off the market and stay here for at least another 5 years then re-assess. I really want the boys to feel settled in these early years and the local schools are so good. I love my little bumble bee cottage - I just miss a decent bit of coastline so we'll have to have more days driving to the seaside.

In about 5 years hubby will probably want to retire from his current position and I should be nicely qualified to start working again in a new career - we'll just swap roles and also be in a position to look for a house where we want instead of where my husband's job dictates.

Big sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :0)

http://belladia.typepad.com/crafty_crow/

Love this site.....

Unclean....

We are the germy family. I somehow got a nasty throat infection which required antibiotics - not a happy bunny. Now the boys have been ill. Both ends and both at the same time. It's Toby's first experience of being ill and he was so good bless him. Thankfully all is now passing and my boys are back to full mischief mode.

I went to my first school governors meeting last week - interesting bunch. The jury's out on the headmistress - will keep an open mind for now. I'm starting to do some work for the Police next week. Just 3 nights for a few months.

We got a few days of snow - lovely...just cold wet rain now - roll on the summer.

It's all kicking off...

There is a right who haar going on in the village at the moment. The pre-school were told to vacate the infant school for a week due to there being a mice problem..trouble is while they were out they were told that they couldn't come back. For the last week the pre-school has been held in the village hall and its likely it might have to close after decades. It would seem there is a long running dispute going on. I am not amused - Sam loves it there and I had Toby's name down too. We moved here because of being able to walk to the schools - the nearest is miles away. There's a meeting in the village hall tomorrow - watch this space.

I've started the OU degree course - really good so far. About to submit my first essay - will be interesting to see the response.

On the down side - I'm 40 tomorrow - where has all that time gone??????

Reading an interesting book at the moment called Gentle discipline - its very similar to what we do now but there are some good tips.

where will we go next????

We survived Christmas - in fact it was lovely - the boys thought it was magical. Just the 4 of us then we went up to Anglesey to visit family & friends.
Toby is now in his big boy bed - I managed to get a lovely boat one in a sale on Christmas day online - a real bargain - he loves it.
We have been having major discussions about the move to Anglesey and I think we've finally agreed its not for us. The schools are a major let down and it wouldn't feel like home if we don't own the property. We are now considering going back to Dorset or Cornwall - somewhere nice and remote hopefully. We still have this place to sell so aren't going to look seriously until we have an offer.

Looking forward to the springtime now - getting fed up of all this cold, wet weather.....

Not sure what to think....

Sam has been seeing a speech therapist for a while now as his speech went from being very good at about 18months to only saying the word "buzz" for everything. Along side this he has seen a Dr to check his motor skills, socialisation, growth and all sorts of things every 6 months. He had his latest checkup last week and she now wants to refer him to be assessed for autism / aspergers when he turns 4 - it seems they won't even consider it until then..... not quite sure how I feel about that yet. On the one hand if he is "labled" with one of these he will get the help he needs in school (hopefully) - but will he then get treated differently?

I have now signed up to do a Social Work degree with the Open University. It'll be a bit of a struggle to start as it overlaps with my Italian course - who knows where I'll find the time with my little monkeys helping.

They've both been enjoying the usual round of Christmas parties. I've got to persuade Daddy to take them to the village carols in the square on Thurs while I'm at evening classes. The mulled wine & mince pies might swing it.

We're all set for Christmas - the boys are a bit concerned Father Christmas might burn his bum coming down the chimney though - talking of chimneys - the local pub had to call out the fire brigade at theirs caught alight.

All we need now is some snow......

For my boys....

I have decided to record some details of our family life for the boys to read when they are older. We are a family of 4 - I'm a SAHM, married with 2 boistrous boys - Sam 3.5 and Toby 18 months. They have the best Dad and are definately "daddies boys".

We're a bit of an eco family - washable nappies all the way, no nasty chemicals and if we sell our lovely little cottage we'll all be heading to Anglesey to live the good life.