Reviews, Silences and Normality Resumes

Hi Everyone hope you all have had a good week – I had one day in the office and the rest of the week was catch up with house work, shopping and getting the kids back into a routine again.  No childminder but nursery for two shorter days, and by Friday they seemed to be cream crackered, so I know next week we will have extreme tiredness by Wednesday night.

More developments with our Adoption, we had a meeting on Thursday with Social Worker and Court Officer – In six more weeks we should be [blinking hope so] officially “parents” after 3 ½ years!!!! Please Court Officer make it sooooooooooooo.

Thursday was also Hubby’s Birthday and unfortunately along with a pair of scissors and a Christmas Cheque Hubby’s Birthday present is missing. I did buy it, I know I bought it into the house and I know I didn’t wrap it, but placed it in a very strategic place where I would go and get it straight after the festivities and prepare for his day.  Four days later and all three items are yet to disclose themselves. But I did make a belated birthday cake yesterday which we are all enjoying very muchly.  Not counting the calories at all that will start tomorrow – Ha!

Received my first review products this week from Show & Tell – Mefinder if you go to my personal blog you will find the review there.

I do hope all you 7yummymummy bloggers are ok and I imagine you too must be really busy at the moment so let’s hope you will be online soon to give us all an update. And to those of you who read this blog we hope you are all well and have enjoyed the Christmas Holidays.

Getting excited about attending cybermummy11 which is happening later in the year and for which I see lots more are signing up to attend – will be great to catch up with you and meet you in the flesh!

I have always thought that Sunday is a good day to sit down and catch up with whats been happening in the week and what I’ve got to look forward to as well, however I have since found out that Sunday is also treated by many of you as Silent Sunday!  Which, for those of you who are unawares, was founded by mocha beanie mummy, who started Silent Sunday by posting a photograph that she had taken to sum up the week, for which required no words. Brill idea and will try and incorporate this into my blog if I can – but Sunday’s for me I seem to have lots to say, some may call it dribble, but I like to call it Therapy!

All back to “Normal” tomorrow going to sign off and catch up with a bit of my coursework last assignment due at the end of the Month!

Have a good week ya oll!

Mummyrella x

All Work and No Play

This week has been a bit of a slow one. I've had one of them weeks where I look back, and can't remember what I've done. Sounds awful doesn't it?

Last weekend, James and I toddled off to Southampton with Freyja. James was getting his eyes tested to see whether he was eligible for laser eye surgery, which he is, but only the uber expensive kind. So that can't happen for a while. Whilst he was in with the eye-man, Freyja and I had a wander round West Quay. I love that place, but struggle to exercise self-control when it comes to the shops. I bought a few Christmas presents, and we went for a hot chocolate before coming home. That evening, James had some friends round because they were going airsofting the next day, so I went out with me bezzie mate Leila and had a few too many malibu and cokes. No hangover though! 

On Sunday, Freyja and I did a food shop, and I worked that evening. The rest of the week was pretty quiet. I went to visit one of my Netmum friends with another one of my Netmum friends, and ate lots of biscuits and drank lots of tea. It's lovely having so many lovely people as mummy friends - couldn't have done it without Netmums. I worked that evening (again). On Wednesday, I had to wait in for a delivery, so we just minced around the house and did a bit of housework. Thursday, a friend came over for a drink and a natter. I had a couple of deliveries from PR companies who want me to do product reviews on my personal blog. I couldn't believe what they sent me, it was like Christmas! Freyja dived in to a massive box of Organix Goodies - I think I know what'll be her treats for the next couple of weeks! On Friday, my friend and her daughter came over in the morning and Freyja and Gracie played for a while. They were both being pretty moody though - when Gracie gets moody, she whinges, and when Freyja gets moody, she hits - not a great combo. I worked again last night, and working again tonight and again tomorrow night! Just thinking of the money... 

On to our theme of gadgets and gizmos. When Freyja was first born, I went through a bit of a phase of wanting all the cool electric toys. She had a play gym that she really enjoyed, and a door bouncer that she loved (except it was a bugger to get her out of it). She had a walker that she pushed around the house, but never got that much use out of it really. Apart from that, she had a musical light show thing for in her room which helped her settle when she was much younger, but that's about it. I have a big love for traditional wooden toys, jigsaws, books, and blocks - I much prefer to buy those sort of things rather than the battery ones. There's nothing wrong with them, obviously, it's just personal taste. They tend to last longer when they don't have batteries in them - not to mention it's a lot quieter without so many gadgets on at the same time! I just don't think that that many of them are very educational - the ones Freyja has, have got ridiculous voiceovers and make ridiculous sounds that don't sound like what they are aiming to sound like, so they're pretty pointless really. You just can't beat a bag of Megablox and stacking cups/shape sorters - she has hours of fun with that kind of stuff! 

Have a good week - I'm off to sort the house because my mum is coming to visit tomorrow and staying with us for a week, so I suppose I best go and make her bed up! x