Holiday #Day6

Went to town today to meet my cousin who's celebrating her 18th today. Don't see her very often so it was good to have a chat. She is SO grown up, I guess she's had to grow up quickly, though. Isn't it unfair?! Give her some 'house pressies' too, so hopefully they'll be helpful in her new place.

Uploaded my pictures from this week on to the PC, so let's have a look:

Just chilling out!
















Kite flying

Holiday #Day5

Wednesday.

FOJ work - planning until September (whose bright idea was that?!)
School planning.
Lunch.

This afternoon mum was up to going out so we went to Redcar to buy an 18th birthday present for my cousin, who we are supposed to be meeting in town tomorrow. Unfortunately for me, she moved into a house last week so I also needed to buy a moving in present. Two tea towels and an oven glove...and a watch. Now, how will i decide which present is for which occasion???!!!

Going back to Redcar now, this time with Mum and Dad, Mum's going to sit in the car while Dad I fly my kite!

Holiday #Day4

Day 4 already?!

Today:

Work started but then quickly stopped when:

1.An emergency visit to the drs (not for me!)

By the time that was over it was time for:

2. A visit to see my cousin's month old baby, Katie (ahhhh!)
3. A visit from my cousin, Jo (who's pregnant...it's all babies in this family at the mo!)
4. A family meal.
5. Nic/Alan/Samuel left the building to stay with Alan's parents. We can all go back to our 'normal' beds and the house seems suddenly....tidy!

Still only one report done.

Tomorrow is yet another day.....though not feeling much like snow, at the mo!

Holiday #Day3

Planned lunch with family went completely as unplanned.

Started and finished 1 report.

Holiday #Day2

Pentecost.

Well, not a major moving of the spirit in the Romford sense (!) but I gave my testimony, so it was definitely there somewhere!

Mum and Grandad both managed to make it, despite not being 100% so the whole Watson contingent was there for Samuel's first outing to Eston Corps and the first time Nic and I have been there since Mum's diagnosis.
A strange feeling.
Not sure how much of the sermon was taken in, as people spent most of the morning staring at Samuel. I think he gets his good looks from me!

It was just me, Grandad, Ma and Pa for lunch. Proper Sunday dinner (with spare Yorkshire puddings, yum!)

Had a snooze this afternoon, before getting down to finish my SATs marking (yay, it's done) and started on my school reports - just written the children's names on and saved them all in individual files, but it's a start!

Now blogging and then chilling. Tea time beckons.

I have been tagged

My tag: "It is a well-known fact that cows are short-sighted".

From Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall's The Good Granny Guide

Here's is what this is about

- the rules:

• Grab the book closest to you
• Turn to page 161
• Print the 5th complete sentence on your blog
• Tag 5 others.

I tag; Fiona, Graeme, Richard, Jenny, Judith

Holiday #Day1

Dropped Sarah and her Nan off at Chelmsford station at 8am today (they were going to the Chelsea Flower Show) then began my journey home. Stopped off for a McDs latte/hash brown - it was 10.29 and they said it was too late.

Shocking!

No traffic jams, so was home by 12.15, just as M&D were making lunch - my timing is impecable!

Went into Redcar to visit a health shop for Mum, then went to Grandads.

Nic and Alan arrived at Grandad's at the same time as us, so I was there when he met his newest Great Grandson (he's had a new Great Granddaughter since then!) What a beautiful moment.

Tonight was just family time. I say just. It was nice! And of course marking SATs papers. Only 5 more papers, then they're all done.

I'm on Baby Monitor Duty now. Nic and Al are out. So I'm left listening to, well, silence . Is that possible? Can you listen to silence?

Tomorrow will be an interesting day at the Army. Lots of cooing over....no, not me, Samuel! Can honestly say, though, I am definitely mourning missing the morning meeting at Romford (how many 'M' words can you get in one sentence?!) The songsters are singing two totally different types of songs which I would love to be there to sing. Plus, God-stuff is so tangible at the corps at the mo, I really don't want to miss out!