Bad, bad blogger!

where has the time gone? last week was opticians, dentist, doctors.........you get the idea! Then my parents took the children to North Norfolk camping, they just got back today after a fun filled 5 nights away. Henry in particular had a fantastic time making friends and playing at the camp site, his idea of heaven!
Jonathan and I went up on Sunday and I stayed the night, few fun shots of beach and Evie's bath!

Whilst they were away I decorated Evie's room, it hasn't been done since I was pregnant with Henry 8 years ago! And with Amanda's help I managed to get the main furniture from Ikea, I am so pleased with how it turned out and she loves it!

I also spruced Henry's up and gave him a new shelving unit so he is also a happy bunny!

The next news is that I am hoping to start up a monthly crop to be held on a Friday evening in Bury, I will also do a class for anyone who is interested and the first class with be a beginners mini album, so anybody interested please either e-mail me or leave a comment and let me know which Fridays you are free during the next couple of months!

I have a sore throat tonight and am feeling tired so am off to bed.

Night, night xxx

Poorly Laptop

Yup, my laptop got a 'spy worm' which will try to find your passwords and credit card numbers - both of which I have now changed - a pain, but necessary! I do have an anti-virus, but I guess these things find ways to get through.
I have done a little bit of crafting ready for when I decorate Evie's room:


Last week was pretty busy, Henry had activities at the Leisure Centre, we also went swimming and met up with friends at the park and cinema and these are my two loving their fruit (honestly, such fruit bats!)

Took this one from our first floor sitting room french windows of the children lying in the sun sucking the sweetness out of the honeysuckle - did you ever do that when you were little? I did!

And Henry went to a one day 'Joseph' workshop run by my lovely and talented friend Polly. He arrived at 9.15am with lunchbox and we arrived at 4.30pm to watch the show! It was amazing what they had achieved in one day with twenty 7-13 year olds! Henry even sang two lines of a song solo - brought tears to my eyes (in a good way!), and he played the part of the Pharaoh.

So all in all pretty busy, this week is haircuts and dentist!

Have a good week xx

Time flies when your having fun!

Well, the first week of the school holidays is over already and we sure have been busy! They spent Monday at the Seaside with my mum whilst I was working then Henry spent the next four mornings at our churches holiday club - Razzamatazz Robots when he had great fun. We have also been swimming, been to a friends party and had friends over to play.

Actually on Saturday I had five children here from 10am until 5pm and I still managed to clean the whole house, wash the towels and bedding and makes meringues and ice cream ready for friends coming over for lunch today!

This is Evie dressed up for her Hawaiian party on her last day at pre-school

And this is Henry and I last Sunday at Auntie Peggy's where we went for tea to celebrate Jonathan's mum's birthday

So the Summer Bingo has not been so popular! Henry was full of it last weekend, but when he realised that it might be hard work he was not so enthralled! We will try again this week.

So I hope your holidays are going well, fingers crossed for a little more nice weather!

New starts........

....but lot's of endings too! Henry is leaving year 2, this has been a fantastic year for Henry and he has grown in confidence as well as academically. He loves his teachers, especially Mrs Dalgleish,

but he is very excited to be going to Year 3. It is also a fantastic year for the school as Sebert Wood just got an 'outstanding' ofsted report and the children are having a fun day today to celebrate! He has also finished Beavers and will be starting cubs in September and has moved up a class in Swimming to Improver's 1. He seems so grown up now, I have to admit to doing a little reminiscing lately - well, look how cute he was!

Evie is finishing at pre-school and starting nursery - 5 afternoons a week, she is also very excited and looks so cute in the uniform! She has also had her very last session with Carolyn, our amazing childminder whom we have know since Henry started going to her age 2 and I can't believe that this is it! We will all miss her terribly. (photo of Evie and Carolyn to follow at a later date!)

She is also changing her swimming lessons from Sarah at the Leisure centre, who has been fantastic, to Karen at Culford - same afternoon as Henry which should make life a little easier!

Other news in the Lambert Household - Jonathan's mum is back in hospital with diverticulitis so more rushing backwards and forwards, this time to Stevenage, to visit her, so once again plans have not always gone as they should have.

I am working on finishing off the teachers gifts and making up the Summer Bingo for the children - not sure it's going to work - but worth a try!

Sorry

..........for the fact that I haven't updated in over a week, things are busy as ever.

Jonathan's Dad's funeral went to plan, just small with lot's of Whisky drinking afterwards, just as Reg would have liked. Unfortunately two days later Jonathan's mum suffered from a small heart attack and spent a few nights in hospital. Whilst there they also managed to asses her dementia and it seems she has Pick disease - shrinking of the frontal and temporal anterior lobes of the brain. This has been accelerated by the stress of the last few weeks. It seems the disease makes her quite controlling (she pretends to faint when things aren't going her way) and she sees Jonathan's brother Philip as her husband/father substitute, so plays up much more when he is around. There is no cure or medication and she will get progressively worse, it's almost like Jonathan and Philip have lost both parents.

On a happier note, Henry got his school report on Friday and Jonathan and I are pleased as punch with him, he has really come on in leaps and bounds in Year 2 and really enjoyed himself, at the moment he is really excited about going up to Year 3 - let's hope that continues!

Last Friday we packed the car to the rafters and headed off to Burnham Deepdale in gorgeous North Norfolk for a weekend camping with my parents, brother and sister-in-law and niece to celebrate my Dad's 65th birthday. Apart from the rain and wind whilst putting the tents up we had amazing weather and a great time.

We spent Saturday on Brancaster Beach - look at it - stunning!

And then Saturday night at The White Horse for dinner.

I managed one last layout before I packed all my scrapping stuff away again for a while....

Also to let you know that there has been an amendment, the 'Your Touch of Craft' Autumn/Winter workshop is now on Sunday 11th October 2009 - hope to see you there!

Sara xx

Scrapping Fever!

Well now I've started I just can't stop! Am loving my Mosh Posh Kit's and EVERYTHING at House of 3!

I have printed off and put together this fantastic 'countdown'. I decided not to make a birthday one, but just general and so we are now on countdown for our camping trip next weekend (10 days to go!) But it would make a great pre-birthday gift for someone.

And I love working with kits. What I especially like about Mosh Posh is how quickly the DT get the gallery up, as I love to see what they have done and get ideas - and quite often 'lift' their ideas............

The children and I had a busy weekend, Jonathan was back down in Margate on Saturday afternoon through to Sunday night, so we amused ourselves with Henry's School Summer Fayre, where Henry went into the stocks and got soaked!

Sunday we went to church, then town , then Mum's and then off to meet friends at The Cadogan Arms for a late Sunday lunch - perfect except for the fact that Jonathan wasn't there with us!

Hope you are all enjoying the sunshine

xx

Difficult times.

On Thursday 11th June, Jonathan's Dad, Reg, passed away very peacefully with his wife and two son's with him. It is a very sad time, but also a relief, as he was in a lot of pain. I cannot imagine how Jonathan is really feeling, as long as Reg has been ill and in his mid 80's, when your Dad actually dies it is so hard to imagine never being able to have a conversation with them again. He will be sorely missed, he was a wonderful character and both Jonathan and his brother Philip have inherited his fantastic sense of humour. Life hasn't been easy, as Jonathan only got home from Margate last night and I have found juggling everything here on my own under such un-predictable times pretty tough. It is such a relief to have Jonathan home.

Poor Henry has tonsillitis at the moment, so has been off school for the last couple of days, but I think he is ready to go back tomorrow!

The Sebert Wood School Fayre is this Saturday and so I have been baking Banana Loaf and Brownies ready for the cake stall, with Evies help of course!

I have been using my gorgeous May & June Mosh Posh Kits and using their gallery for inspiration:

I am also working on a House of 3 countdown project, I'll show you when it's finished!

Henry went to a friends cowboy party last Saturday - wish I'd got a photo of him all dressed up, but I did get one of the card I made....

How cute is that!

Talking of cute, look at these piccies of Evie from this morning dressed up as Stephanie from Lazytown!

Well, that's it from this week, will try and catch up again soon xx