Well I'm back after the easter break and it went by all too fast, I had so many plans in my head about what we would do and only managed about half of them. We did do lots of fun stuff though, Janet (aka tigger) and I did a kid swop on the thursday before easter, Sophie stayed here much to Abbie's delight and Matthew went to stay with Benjamin. Those two boys get on so well with each other its almost scary, they just clicked right from day one and when they are together they are lost in the world of nintendo DS and Mythological creatures!!
We had a great day out in fota on Good friday where we met up with Ruth and her two kids and Janet to swop the kids back, we had a lovely walk to the coffee shop before the rain started so we hopped on the train back to the entrance and all headed to Ruths house for coffee. The boys were delighted to find that Ruth's hubby has a Wii and that kept them amused for the afternoon, Abbie, Anna and Tom had loads of fun with Abbie's camera and took some great shots in the process!
On easter sunday evening Tracy and I headed off in her 8 seater car to make the trip to Ikea, we went as far as Dublin on sunday night and met up with Janet, Iona, Gertie and Donna for a drink in the hotel, I think I may have a tiny bit to do with Janet making the trip too ;-) ;-) Monday morning after our obligatory Bewleys breakfast we hit the road north and stopped for a coffee in Bambridge - of course the fact the there was a GAP outlet there too might have had something to do with it!!! A few bags of shopping later and we hit the road for Belfast and Ikea. We were so much more efficient this time round in Ikea as we didn't quite have to stop and oooooohhhh at everything, loading Tracy's car was like doing a christmas day jigsaw puzzle but we managed it and even sneaked back in to Ikea to fill the gaps!! We drove direct form Belfast home and managed the journey in 5 1/2 hours without once breaking the speed limit, we were stopped at a garda checkpoint as we reached Tivoli and the poor Guard thought that we were completely bonkers when he asked what was in the back!
ooops gotta go here will continue later!!!
Tuesday 1 April 2008
Sunday 9 March 2008
New house and other bits
finally getting a chance to sit down and post here again! We are now living in our gorgeous new house and almost all of the boxes have been unpacked, at times the house even looks tidy!!!! I am hoping that over the easter break we will get the last of the boxes unpacked and pictures and shelving hung and finally have our house the way we have been dreaming of for so long!
My craft room is one of the rooms left to be finished but at least now the only boxes in there are boxes of craft stuff, promise to share photos soon.
I was at Crafteire last weekend and had a complete ball, I travelled up and down with Jan and we shared a room in a gorgeous B+B too, it was great to catch up with so many people and meet some new faces too, I did classes with Amber Jane and Jane Dean and was totally inspired by both, the class kits were amazing too they just seem to go on forever, from one of Amber's classes alone I did the double LO that was taught and then managed a 16 pg 6x6 mini book, I made three cards today and I still have enough left over for another LO still. Jane Dean showed us all how to make tiles from Paper clay using rubber stamps and paint and I made a gorgeous keepsake box with them, I have ordered some more clay to have a play with and see what else I can come up with - just have to get the craft room fully sorted first.
Just want to share some pics that Abbie took when we were in Schull in February - if she keeps taking them like this, I'll scrap her pics instead!!!
My craft room is one of the rooms left to be finished but at least now the only boxes in there are boxes of craft stuff, promise to share photos soon.
I was at Crafteire last weekend and had a complete ball, I travelled up and down with Jan and we shared a room in a gorgeous B+B too, it was great to catch up with so many people and meet some new faces too, I did classes with Amber Jane and Jane Dean and was totally inspired by both, the class kits were amazing too they just seem to go on forever, from one of Amber's classes alone I did the double LO that was taught and then managed a 16 pg 6x6 mini book, I made three cards today and I still have enough left over for another LO still. Jane Dean showed us all how to make tiles from Paper clay using rubber stamps and paint and I made a gorgeous keepsake box with them, I have ordered some more clay to have a play with and see what else I can come up with - just have to get the craft room fully sorted first.
Just want to share some pics that Abbie took when we were in Schull in February - if she keeps taking them like this, I'll scrap her pics instead!!!
Wednesday 19 December 2007
We got our keys!
Finally after much stress and loads of issues that I could not even be bothered to blog about, today I opened our front door and let myself in! (and the tile delivery to) Ikea are delivering this evening and Richard wil be there to greet them - think he might hyperventilate when he sees just how much I bought! (13 pallets + sofas in a separate delivery!) I'm out to dinner tonight to celebrate the end of term with the staff from school, plays were today and were fantastic!!! (even if I do say so myself) J5 stolethe show with their self written play "the R factor"
More soon and pics I promise!!!
More soon and pics I promise!!!
Saturday 20 October 2007
I'm Still Alive!
Haven't posted in so long thought I'd better start somewhere. We still haven't moved into our new house - fingers crossed we will be in in about 5 weeks! After 6 weeks living in Richards parents house (with a week in Sicily in between) we moved into a short term rental now just 3 mins walk from work. (and yes you can read between the lines there~!)
Kids are totally settled in school now and Matthew has started french horn lessons as well so I'm on the road most afternoons with both of them but they are loving it.
Richard bought me a gorgeous new macbook last thursday so I could get properly back online so I am having loads of fun setting it up and playing around with all the new programs - I have remembered why I alwasy loved Macs - so so easy to use! Thankfully we have wireless here in the apartment so as I type the kids are in their bedroom watching a dvd, richard is studying in the living room and I'm sitting at the kitchen table with a cuppa! Chill out time!!!
I have so many photos to share but haven't got them on this machine yet, loads from Sicily and Ronan and Aoifes wedding - which was without doubt the best wedding I've been at barring my own. Some of the photos are on my facebook if you fancy a look.
Crafting wise I haven't done that much at all recently with most of my stuff being in storage but I have been going to Loras every tuesday night and getting to scrap at least once a week, I even started some christmas cards :-O
Anyway am going to get back to setting this baby up (my mac book really deserves a name - answers on a postcard please!) and I'll share all my photos as soon as I get the loaded up!
OH and A BIG TOOT TOOT to the best young scrapper in Ireland - Bronwen Howley who appears in this months Scrpabook Inspirations - remember her name you will only see more of it, If I only had her talent.......................
Kids are totally settled in school now and Matthew has started french horn lessons as well so I'm on the road most afternoons with both of them but they are loving it.
Richard bought me a gorgeous new macbook last thursday so I could get properly back online so I am having loads of fun setting it up and playing around with all the new programs - I have remembered why I alwasy loved Macs - so so easy to use! Thankfully we have wireless here in the apartment so as I type the kids are in their bedroom watching a dvd, richard is studying in the living room and I'm sitting at the kitchen table with a cuppa! Chill out time!!!
I have so many photos to share but haven't got them on this machine yet, loads from Sicily and Ronan and Aoifes wedding - which was without doubt the best wedding I've been at barring my own. Some of the photos are on my facebook if you fancy a look.
Crafting wise I haven't done that much at all recently with most of my stuff being in storage but I have been going to Loras every tuesday night and getting to scrap at least once a week, I even started some christmas cards :-O
Anyway am going to get back to setting this baby up (my mac book really deserves a name - answers on a postcard please!) and I'll share all my photos as soon as I get the loaded up!
OH and A BIG TOOT TOOT to the best young scrapper in Ireland - Bronwen Howley who appears in this months Scrpabook Inspirations - remember her name you will only see more of it, If I only had her talent.......................
Tuesday 28 August 2007
the destructive power of a 3 year old in 5 mins
I just had a call from a moving company to give a quote and showed him round our tidied up for the occassion house. We came downstairs for him to calculate the quote and left Abbie washing her hands in the bathroom, she arrived downstairs five minutes later, nacked apart from a coating of white paste all over her body and I ran upstairs to see what she had got at to see this sight!
Its amazing how muchmess half a tub of johnsons baby powder can make - this photo was takn with my phone and doesn't show the trail of white footprints left all over the house!
I suppose I should be greatful that its just a mess and not another trip to A+E! Still I could strangle her sometimes!
Monday 27 August 2007
What a week!
Where to start? Well Richard left last Sunday week at 3.30 am to go to the states and I was all set up for loads of treats for the kids for the week. On Monday we went to see Surfs up in mahon point which Abbie loved and was asking for surfing lessons on the way home, loads of popcorn and even some Hagen daas were consumed in the cinema! Tuesday we headed for Killarney to see the west end touring production of Annie, which was fantastic. On the way there Matthew said that he thought that he mightn't enjoy Annie as much as Fame or Mamma Mia but 20 mins into the show both him and Abbie were singing tomorrow at the tops of their voices and Matthew was trying to work out how many good parts for males were in the show. At the moment his ambition is to get a part in a west end musical - Oliver would be his number one choice followed by Chitty Chitty Bang bang and when he is older he wants to be Joseph in Joseph and his amazing Technicolor dreamcoat. Abbie has decided that she is now an orphan just like Annie and has taken to sitting on the laundry basket in the bay window upstairs looking mournful and singing Maybe!
We arrived home from Annie after midnight on Tuesday and we were chilling out at home pottering around on Wednesday when I went into Abbie’s room to tidy up and found her with a bottle of Zirtec that had been full (only 2.5mills gone) now almost empty, She looked very guilty and admitted to drinking it. Panic set in and my heart was going at 90 miles an hour, I grabbed the phone and rang the GP - engaged, rang Tracy who immediately rang her father (a gp) on the other line and he advised that we get to A+E ASAP. Tracy and Conor headed straight there from there house and I drove with the smallest regard for speed limits directly to A+E - all the while talking to Abbie to keep her awake - in the meantime Conor and Tracy had arrived at the hospital and were waiting at the door of A+E so I could jump out of the car and Conor would park it and Tracy had also phoned her sister (a hospital doctor) to let her know so she had let A+E know. Abbie was seen instantly when we arrived and after a few doctors consulted and a call to the poison clinic in Dublin they decided as she was awake and in fact Hyper at this stage that the best thing would be to leave her be under close observation. Looking back at it now Abbie was very entertaining as she used the curtains around her bed as stage curtains and kept closing them and shouting "LADIES AND BENTLEBENS isssss ABBIE" she was totally hyperactive and also very wobbly - she appeared as if she had downed a good few bottles of vino but over the next few hours she started to calm down and return to herself - she even managed to flirt with the lovely aussie doctor. Conor had taken Matthew back to their house to watch TV and chill and Tracy stayed with me the whole time and kept me in one piece. The whole time we were there I was beating myself up for (as I thought) not putting the cap back properly on the Zirtec bottle and when I mentioned this to the doctor he handed Abbie the bottle (closed) and she opened it in about 5 seconds flat - childproof lock and all!
Thankfully Abbie is fine now and there are no after effects other than to my grey hair count.
On Thursday we headed to Dublin to get Abbies shoes for Ronan and Aoife’s wedding and after finding the perfect pair in Mothercare Ronan treated us to dinner in Cactus Jacks – Thanks again! And also put Abbie to bed for me when we got back to their house. Both kids love visiting Ronan and Aoife’s and were very upset when we headed home. I can’t believe that their wedding is getting so close – just over five weeks away now with a stag and hen party to fit in between now and then.
Richard arrived home from the states (via a night in galway) on Saturday evening and while he didn’t have much free time there he did manage to buy the kids some clothes and toys (including a talking my little pony for Abbie which is a HUGE hit!) and he managed to buy me a perfect fit pair of jeans and some tops and a Huge bundle of craft mags. We all chilled out on Sunday and had a long walk on the beach in the evening as all the crowds were leaving.
Today I spent chasing my tail over the kitchen in the new house and it is very nearly sorted now and Matthew has gone off to Dublin with his granddad for a few days to visit his great granny so the house is fairly quiet. I took some great photos of the kids last week and managed to leave my camera charger in Dublin plugged in along with my phone charger in Ronan and Aoife’s spare room so no camera until they come down at the weekend.
I’m off to lismore tomorrow evening to Lora’s crop for some much needed crafting time – I haven’t so much as stroked a piece of paper in the last three weeks!
We arrived home from Annie after midnight on Tuesday and we were chilling out at home pottering around on Wednesday when I went into Abbie’s room to tidy up and found her with a bottle of Zirtec that had been full (only 2.5mills gone) now almost empty, She looked very guilty and admitted to drinking it. Panic set in and my heart was going at 90 miles an hour, I grabbed the phone and rang the GP - engaged, rang Tracy who immediately rang her father (a gp) on the other line and he advised that we get to A+E ASAP. Tracy and Conor headed straight there from there house and I drove with the smallest regard for speed limits directly to A+E - all the while talking to Abbie to keep her awake - in the meantime Conor and Tracy had arrived at the hospital and were waiting at the door of A+E so I could jump out of the car and Conor would park it and Tracy had also phoned her sister (a hospital doctor) to let her know so she had let A+E know. Abbie was seen instantly when we arrived and after a few doctors consulted and a call to the poison clinic in Dublin they decided as she was awake and in fact Hyper at this stage that the best thing would be to leave her be under close observation. Looking back at it now Abbie was very entertaining as she used the curtains around her bed as stage curtains and kept closing them and shouting "LADIES AND BENTLEBENS isssss ABBIE" she was totally hyperactive and also very wobbly - she appeared as if she had downed a good few bottles of vino but over the next few hours she started to calm down and return to herself - she even managed to flirt with the lovely aussie doctor. Conor had taken Matthew back to their house to watch TV and chill and Tracy stayed with me the whole time and kept me in one piece. The whole time we were there I was beating myself up for (as I thought) not putting the cap back properly on the Zirtec bottle and when I mentioned this to the doctor he handed Abbie the bottle (closed) and she opened it in about 5 seconds flat - childproof lock and all!
Thankfully Abbie is fine now and there are no after effects other than to my grey hair count.
On Thursday we headed to Dublin to get Abbies shoes for Ronan and Aoife’s wedding and after finding the perfect pair in Mothercare Ronan treated us to dinner in Cactus Jacks – Thanks again! And also put Abbie to bed for me when we got back to their house. Both kids love visiting Ronan and Aoife’s and were very upset when we headed home. I can’t believe that their wedding is getting so close – just over five weeks away now with a stag and hen party to fit in between now and then.
Richard arrived home from the states (via a night in galway) on Saturday evening and while he didn’t have much free time there he did manage to buy the kids some clothes and toys (including a talking my little pony for Abbie which is a HUGE hit!) and he managed to buy me a perfect fit pair of jeans and some tops and a Huge bundle of craft mags. We all chilled out on Sunday and had a long walk on the beach in the evening as all the crowds were leaving.
Today I spent chasing my tail over the kitchen in the new house and it is very nearly sorted now and Matthew has gone off to Dublin with his granddad for a few days to visit his great granny so the house is fairly quiet. I took some great photos of the kids last week and managed to leave my camera charger in Dublin plugged in along with my phone charger in Ronan and Aoife’s spare room so no camera until they come down at the weekend.
I’m off to lismore tomorrow evening to Lora’s crop for some much needed crafting time – I haven’t so much as stroked a piece of paper in the last three weeks!
Thursday 16 August 2007
AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH
Just having one of those days, everything is getting on top of me today and I am taking EVERYTHING personally! Do you ever hear something and wonder if it is a direct dig at you? but if you ask you will be the person causing the argument rather than the other way round?
I need to go and get me a life!
I need to go and get me a life!
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