I apologise for lack of updating my blog this week. The end of the school year is coming up and things are MANIC. Well and truly busy! School discos, parties, appointments with teachers, baking cakes for school competitions (Alice in wonderland themed! I am NOT a baker, I suck at baking cakes lol. Different coloured cupcakes with flowers and maybe 'Alice in wonderland' or 'Mad Hatter' wrote on with icing pens, is ok though, yes?? Seriously I am lacking time, lol!), the usual chores, grocery shopping, laundry (Is it just me that seems to be constantly washing, hanging and folding clothes?!) the list is endless and I can't even think straight. I am SO tired. 

Roll on the end of half term. 

On a better note, the kids are so, so looking forward to there discos and end of term parties. Not to mention games day. They can't decide which board games they want to take in! They're also allowed to take in there favourite DVD. Ellie is so looking forward to her school disco. She gets to join the year ones in there disco session! So grown up. Both boys are pleased with the teachers that'll be teaching them in September. Yet to find out who'll be teaching Ellie though. 

there school reports are wonderful! I am SO proud of them all. They all have excellent reports (and attendance). I'm really excited for them. The last week at school is always fun and I know they're gonna have blast.

I can not believe how fast this last year has gone. This time last year Ellie was getting ready to go up to primary school and Charlie getting ready to join the junior school, Harry was looking forward to being in year four. It's mad that I'm going to be a mum of a year 1, year 4 and year 5 children. HOW did that even happen?! Lol. Time flies when your having fun... or rather just being a mum. 

Roll on the end of term. I am looking forward to chillaxing days with the kiddos in the sunshine :D 

Sarah xXx

So, it feels like I am coming down with a cold, at least I hope it's just a cold and not flu! Eugh. 
But of course, there's no rest for the wicked. Life goes on. I don't have a chance to sit back and relax. I have piles of laundry to wash, hang out, fold and put away. There's school uniforms and packed lunches, hoovering to be done and dishes to be washed, dried and put away. Dinners to cook and kids to pick up from school (except today because there was no school. It's May day and therefore a bank holiday. Thank goodness). I had an unsettled night last night, I don't know if it's because I changed my bedroom around and so the bed is in a different spot in the bedroom or because I just wasn't really feeling tired. Or maybe it was because I am coming down with a cold or something. Who really knows?! It was just one of *those* nights where I kept waking up and was up and down. It didn't help that the cat was meowing because she needed the litter tray and couldn't go because the door closed. Then she processed to be a pain in the behind and carried on meowing because she wanted t o go outside. 3am is not a good time for her to go outside, especially as one of the neighbours cats has gone missing (he's been missing since Friday night/early hours of Saturday morning. I really hope he turns up). 

I just hope tonight is a better night. I also hope that I feel better tomorrow. Or at least my throat doesn;t hurt so bad. 

Tomorrow is grocery shopping day but to be honest I could do without going. Not going to happen. Obviously we have to eat and so I shall plod on and go to Morrisons, get a weeks worth of groceries and go pay bills and whatever errands need to be done. Must remember to put the prescription for my medication in at the doctors!  
I can't complain too much because the kids aren't bad and they do try to help me if I ask them. Sometimes though, it would be nice just to have a break from everyday things, especially when I am feeling not so great. 
Chance would be a fine thing, eh?!  A woman's works is never done. 

Anyway, aside from that the weather has been amazing. Warm and sunny, lots of blue skies. The kiddies have been able to play outside in our large back garden. We're really fortunate to have a large back garden. the weather is suppose to be nice again tomorrow, if I'm feeling up to it maybe we could have a BBQ after school. Best make the most of it because after tomorrow it's suppose to be overcast and not as warm. Still, it beats winter, lol.

Anyway this post isn't really going anywhere, I just needed somewhere to whinge and whine, lol!! We all have days like that, right? 

Sarah xXx 

I'm still ill, ugh. I have a rotten cold but at least the sore throat has gone! Hopefully I'll feel better tomorrow! I woke up last night at 2am with a terrible headache, seriously it wasn't good. I don't know whether it's because I'm ill or because the pressure around my brain is building up again (I suffer with idiopathic intercranial hypertension) and that I need another lumbar puncture but gosh, the pain was really bad! It's not really a pain I can describe. Thankfully the headache has stayed away all day *touch wood* & I am praying it'll stay that way. I suffer daily in one way or another (whether it be pain in my head, tingling or numbness, bad vision) and I constantly have a dull ache behind my eyes. My vision hasn't really improved but it hasn't got worse either (although I do have bad moments where it goes a bit blurry/I see white or black dots) *again, knock on wood* I'm lucky to have such great support, especially my best friend. She helps me a lot. And my fella when he is here. (Long distance relationships suck) And of course my family when I need them. And my GP is brilliant doctor and very understanding, which really helps.
Maybe one day I'll be able to go back to work!

 I am really hoping I feel better this week as I need to give my daughters bedroom a second coat of paint and get that finished. It;s SO frustrating, there's so much I want and need to go but I just haven't got the energy. If I don't update my blog, it's because I feel blah! I'm trying so hard to update to update on a regular basis. I really enjoy blogging. I wish this cold/flu thing would just go away. It's making me miserable.

I'm really sticking to my goals for this year... Re decorating and organising my home. I've thrown away and donated quite a bit of stuff so far this year. Baby toys, toys the kids don't want any more, same with clothes. Just need to sort my bedroom out. I'm really quite pleased with myself! It doesn't cost anything to organise and de-clutter! And even to give a room a lick of paint is under £15!
I've started saving up for the paint and wall paper for my front room. It won't cost a lot because I'm only wall papering the chimney breast wall so I'll only need two rolls, well probably only one but I'd like one as a spare and the paint isn't expensive, I really like the 'colours by B&Q' brand. I've seen the curtains I like and they aren't that expensive either. Wish I had a sewing machine, I could make my own!! One day I WILL own a sewing machine. I already have the gloss for the skirting boards/door frames (thanks to my granddad who had a tin he didn't need!) and I have plenty of white paint that my granddad also gave me! Gotta love my granddad, hehe.

]I have a post still in draft about the kids progress but I shall post that in the week or the weekend maybe.

Well I'll end this here as I really need to go to bed as it's past midnight! Eek! I had a nap today because I felt so rough. I'm starting to feel tired now though.

Sarah xXx

Yesterday it was snowing all day. Only lightly though. In all honesty I didn't expect to have so much! I suppose we had about 5-6cm maybe a little more. I wrapped the kids up warm ans we went and had some fun in the snow!

The kiddies didn't have school today because of the snow, which meant more playing in the snow! The kids have had a fun. I had fun, too. It was great fun having snowball fights and trying to build a snowman which was an epic fail, lol! Although, now I want the snow to go, I hate it when it turns all slushy and icy, it's no fun now lol!

This week is going to be another busy week! I need to go grocery shopping tomorrow. Wednesday I need to pop into the range (and hope that canvas is still on sale for the boys room! I knew I should of brought it last week.) Thursday I need to give E's room a second coat of paint and undercoat the windowsill, skirting boards and door ready to be glossed! And then Friday I am going to blitz my house. It gonna need it by then! I need to try and find a cheap book case or something for my room. I don't buy paper books anymore as I have an E-reader but I need somewhere to put the books I DO own. I've filled one bookcase already. I would donate or sell them but I love my books, I can't bare to part with them. Is it just me that finds it hard to part with books? I mean, I find it hard to part with anything but even more so. My books. I love them.
 Speaking of books. I've read four already this year. The #50books2013 should be achievable if I carry on like this! I find I'm a fast reader when I read a book I like, I can't put it down! I love reading in the evenings when the kids are in bed.. I switch off the T.V and away I go! Thing is, I end up staying too late reading, lol.

I've entered so many competitions lately, I hope I win something lol.

Right, I need to wash the dishes (Oh what I would give for a dishwasher LOL)
Sarah xXx

Gosh, it has been one busy weekend!
Friday we painted & glossed the boys room. Put there bunk beds up in there room - that was awkward because there really wasn't much room to move around to actually put them up, we managed though.
We put Ellies new mid sleeper bed up today, put all her things in her new room, that took me HOURS. I finally got my room half organised. I sorted the kids books out, some of the toys & organised both rooms! I still have LOADS to do but honestly, I haven't stopped all day, I am knackered. While I did all of that my fella cooked a lovely roast dinner & tidied downstairs (he also helped put the bed up!)

Things to to do (goals) this week:

• Take the extra tub of paint back to B&Q - exchange it for pink paint for Ellies room. 
• Undercoat and gloss the skirting boards window sill and door in Ellies room 
• Measure both rooms - carpets! (Should'a done this first but haven't got the funds gonna see if we can find off cuts/end of the roll cheap, as both rooms are quite small)
• Put Ellies new curtain pole up 
• Put the boys curtain pole up & light shade. 
• Sort out my bedroom - get that organised! 
• Buy a bulb for Ellies lamp! Been meaning to do this for ages, I keep forgetting. Costs under £1! MUST REMEMBER! 
• Finish the bathroom. (Probably do that towards the end of the week)

Lets hope I can achieve all of that this week! Honestly, the painting will take about two hours, the glossing we're going to do tomorrow before my fella goes home (totally sucks that he's got to go home.) Also going to exchange the paint tomorrow, too and put the curtain poles up.
Tuesday I need to go grocery shopping (and buy that bulb for Ellies lamp!) & organise my bedroom a little better. Wednesday I'll paint Ellies bedroom. I am really going to be busy this week!
When the bedrooms are finished I will share pics with you all =) I am really chuffed with what we have achieved this weekend. Feeling quite proud of myself, actually, lol!
Right gonna go get a nice hot bubble bath and read my book. I'll try not to fall asleep, lol.
TTFN.
Sarah xXx

Honestly, I am just so tired. I have no idea what is wrong with me lately, I just feel tired. Constantly. All. The. Time. It's driving me mad! I think I might be anemic, again. I don't know but I am going to the doctors because it is not normal to feel THIS tired all the time. I hada good 8.5 hours sleep last night and all day I have felt so tired, my eyes are stinging, it's as if I haven't been to sleep at all last night. Even first thing in the morning when I wake up after a good nights sleep, I still feel tired, urgh.
Anyhoo moving on..
The boys had a nice time at there dads this weekend, they went fishing over night and half the day. Both boys caught a few fish, the're so proud and couldn't wait to tell me about it, aww. Ellie has had a good weekend here with me. Just me and her, it's been nice.
Tomorrow I need to write there names in the uniforms, P.E kits etc, fun times eh?! I know, I've left it until last minute.. Oh well. They're all excited about starting back at school. Charlie is really looking forward to being a junior, lol.
Anyways I'll leave this here, Ellie is calling me and the cat is me-owing to be fed (again) lol. It's never ending in this house, lol.

Sarah xXx

P.S I am currently addicted to pinterest. Such fun!

Gosh, it has been SO hot here today. Me and the kids lounged around in the garden most of the day... well no, ALL day. I thought to myself "Oh, I'll get a lovely tan" Didn't think of applying sun cream to myself (I did the kids obviously) because I never burn. Ever. Then mid afternoon I came inside and realised I had burnt! Badly. I am in total agony now. I know why I have burned, in my bath this morning I put in some bath oil (because I am addicted to it, thought I had rinsed it all off but eh, I was interrupted 9375894 times, my batgh was like 5 mins in and out lol) and me not really thinking about it... yeah, I cooked! Total pain. Never felt pain quite like this before. At least I should go a nice brown colour, right? Have a nice tan? At least on the front of my legs, the back of my legs are white LOL. Should've turned over, except well, I wasn't laying down, I was sitting with my feet up reading breaking dawn part 2. Again. I was paying no attention to my tan, ops.

Woohoo it's finally Friday! I feel absolutely exhausted today! See, I decided that I needed to *ME* time (watching random stuff on youtube, listening to 'keep calm and relax' album etc) so I stayed up late last night thinking "oh it's ok I can nap tomorrow". Only problem with that was I forgot that the plumber/heating engineer was coming to fix the boiler and flush out the whole heating system this morning at 8am. Somehow I managed not to write it down on the calender. It takes pretty much most of the day. There goes my nap... So instead me and Ellie have been doing puzzles, pottering around doing housework (with Ellies "help" lol) & doing laundry. Its now 11am and I am just SO tired. I know, it really IS my own fault. Early night tonight. No, really, I MEAN it, I NEED an early night tonight!

I need to get back into reading, I have a few new books to read but the last few days I just haven't really be bothered. I've picked up my e-reader a couple of times but I can't get into anything. I did start re-reading fifty shades again but the problem is, I think I might ruin the movie for myself. I really NEED Ian Somerhalder to be Christian Grey.

Hmm, how many times have I mentioned the word 'NEED'?! lol. This is a very needy post, haha.

Harry has football club after school today, I am hoping it doesn't rain so that I can take Ellie & Charlie to the play park near the school, otherwise I have to come home and then leave 10 mins later to collect Harry from football. Going to the park is so much easier, lol. We've not been to the park for a good couple of weeks as the weather has been so unpredictable! I think the kiddies would love a trip to the play park :)

Sarah xXx

*Yawn* I am so very tired. I think I've had about 5 hours sleep in the last 72 hours. Friday night I didn't go to sleep until late watching random youtube videos (I haven;t done that for ages!) thinking that I would at least get a 7:30am lay in... how wrong I was, the kids were up at 5:45am yesterday morning.