…is a time for celebration! I was just paying a visit to the little girls room when the phone rang. “MUM! It’s your lawyer!!” shouted my youngest son. “Crikey” I thought, I had better get my finger out as I subconsciously totalled up how many dollars this slight delay in reaching the phone might cost […]
Goodtimes or Badtimes? For me defo Goodtimes! I love nothing more than a good clear out. I can’t believe this was almost three years ago and I am so in need of a good clear out again, where does all this junk come from? I am sat here on the computer surrounded by ‘stuff’. Stuff […]
is over! So that’s it! No going back. We have to stick by our decision. Time to move on! It’s going to be difficult, but it’s for the best! It’s caused too many discussions. Too many arguments. Too many tears. There are kids involved too! We need to end this now! So the decision is […]
Note to self as follows….. 1.Do not let 8 year old daughter install horse apps to own ipad 2.Do not then allow 3 year old son to play on said ipad unsupervised 3.Do not then go out for three hours You will come back to find…. 1.Your facebook page full of status updates and pictures of “my […]
The word homesick is being bandied around a lot at the moment and both mummi h and myself have experienced it recently! For me the first bout of homesickness was truly debilitating. I couldn’t eat or sleep and I didn’t even want to leave the house. When I did leave the house, usually just to […]
STEADY NOW…..an urge to spring clean the kitchen! Whoa! But wait a minute I hate cleaning! Don’t get me wrong I’m not dirty and neither is my house thank you very much! But cleaning gets me down; it’s not creative enough to keep me interested. However, today was different and while I struggled to clean […]
the Christmas blitz of course!! A favourite Christmas tradition in our house is the ‘Christmas blitz!’ This is carried out as close to Christmas Eve as possible on a day when we are all at home together. It is carried out with military precision to the tune of Johnny Mathis’ We Need a Little Christmas! […]
…..not my two front teeth! But apart from the usual good health, wealth and happiness I thought you might like to see a few suggestions! I’m hoping that my boys may decide that they would actually like to read one of mum’s blogs….for a change! So bear with me as I wallow in a bit […]
occurred today…..our big son left school for the second time! At 18 years of age he has just graduated from his Australian high school. Just over two and a half years ago he completed his education at an English high school. He was 16 years old and at a turbulent time of life when we […]
….on something you can’t go a day without thinking about!
mummigrants 