Ten on Tuesday...ish

1. Okay so I completely missed it, Tuesday I mean, seriously I have no idea what happened.
2. My little dog is still very cute and winning hearts all over the place. Even though he's chewed a hole in his new bed already.
3. Turns out there are loads of great places to take dogs for walks that I didn't even know existed.
4. Will be going to purchase my first pair of wellies I've had since I was a kid - turns out we need them for dog walking in JUNE!
5. This weekend we are off to the Warner Brothers Harry Potter Studio tour. We're all quite excited, although I have been warned about the dementors, and the prices in the gift shop!
6. Trying to dry a little dog can be fun when all he wants to do is play. Apparently towels are great fun!
7. Jake had his leavers photographs taken at school today... I can't believe he's been at his middle school for 4 years already.
8. I'm trying very hard not to look at the predictions for this summer.  The weather will be fine especially when there are 10 of us plus two dogs in a holiday cottage in Wales in August... won't it!!
9. Todd has been extremely grumpy lately. I think he's over tired, whatever the reason he can moan for England when he's like this and it's not fun to witness.
10. Sorry for all the dog references tonight, hopefully once the novelty's worn off, normal service will resume ;-)

Adventures with Bosley

Today we tried one or two new things.  The first... bubbles...

He absolutely loved them.  Jumping like crazy trying to catch them, so, so funny to watch.

Later we took him in the car up to meet the Mr when his shift finished.  We bought a car seat harness for Bosley, so he was on the back seat between the boys (really must get a shot of that). He wasn't sure at first then realised he could bark at all the people walking when we stopped in traffic or at the lights. Some poor bloke in Parkstone nearly had a heart attack when we drove by... I'm still laughing at that one ;-)

Then we went onto Hengistbury Head.  We're not sure if he'd ever seen the sea as he was a bit scared, but he soon got the hang of it.

Hope you are enjoying following Bosley's adventures ;-)

Night, night,

K x

A New Adventure...

We did, we really did...

meet Bosley...

He's a 7 months old Jack Russell cross. He's a rescue dog - his first family could not keep him. Right now he's fast asleep in his bed, exhausted with playing and running all day. Funnily enough Todd went straight to sleep too, also exhausted. Maybe there's something to this dog lark ;-)

Firstborn

Tonight's post is all about my first little man, the second of three men in my life. Today he turned 12...

which meant he got his first phone!

I'm so proud of this boy, he's a good kid, loves school, and he's taller than me ;-)

Plus we had some extra special birthday news... today we heard that our appeal had been successful and he will be going to Grammar school this September!!!  He declared it was the best birthday ever!

I make the boys a card each year usually trying to high-light what they were into that year.  This year has been all about the football!

We also booked tickets to the Harry Potter Warner Bros Studio tour.  Unfortunately all you get when booking is an email with your booking reference, so I decided to make something a little nicer.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GORGEOUS!!!

Ten on Tuesday

1.  I have so much to blog about, but I'm having trouble finding the time.
2.  Friday there was a trip to Legoland, a long tiring day but fun. Loved watching the boys running around miniland spotting the different places and models.
2.  Saturday was Todd's first ever football match...I took my camera... I was asked if I would take some photos for the team website... I snapped away... Todd was subbed onto the pitch... my battery died :-(
3.  Todd finally has his first wobbly tooth.
4.  My veg garden has gone crazy.  So far we have harvested lettuce, spinach, rocket and radishes.
5.  My boy Jake is twelve tomorrow.. 12!!! I can remember his first birthday so well... the others blur a bit and now we have reached twelve. The presents are smaller and there aren't so many, but they're blinking expensive now.
6.  I had today off - I normally work Tuesdays - I'm all out of sync now, at least it's only 2 days til my weekend starts ;-)
7.  I baked a chocolate sheet cake today for the birthday boy, the recipe is from Pioneer Woman. That cake is always popular, quick and easy to make and feeds plenty.
8.  I had a hard day today, I'll tell you about soon.
9.  My new tablets are good, along with no breathing problems, I have also noticed clearer skin and stronger nails - appointment tomorrow (moved from last week) to update my allergy consultant. I hope I can stay on them.
10.  Still continuing with my project life. I will take some photos of my pages for you. The boys love looking through them.

Night, night,

K x

Ten on Tuesday

1. Jake and I had an amazing time Saturday night at the Wave105 gig at the BIC. Such great singers... our favourites, Travis (amazing!), Paloma Faith (absolutely incredible!) and ... don't laugh but they surprised us with how good they were... Union J!
2. Currently printing photos for project life... starting to think that this might be an expensive extension to my hobby... perhaps I might start getting the photos printed rather than doing them myself.
3. Jake isn't well... it's not fair, it's his half-term. He started feeling rough Saturday but insisted on going to football training, and then later the concert, but he struggled :-(
4. All this work in the garden means I'm getting nothing done inside. I hate that out of control feeling when you have so much to do you don't know where to start.
5. Hospital appointment this week for me with the allergy consultant - an update on how I'm doing with the different thyroid medication.
6. Hospital appointment for Jake with the heart unit. A fitness test including a treadmill and heart monitors, not sure how he'll do as he's not 100% anyway.
7. A planned trip for the boys and me and Mum Friday, again all reliant on how Jake's feeling.
8. Scrapping with the girls tomorrow night hopefully - did I mention this week was crazy. All with the boys home and me at work!
9. No food shopping done this week either with the bank holiday, scraping the bottom of the freezer yesterday... today after a long and tiring day I went with an easy option... McDonalds... I know, I know.
10. I only have right-handed rubber gloves left. I hate, hate bare hands in water (unless I'm washing myself). Somehow I've ended up with only right ones. I put one on my left hand tonight... I felt (and looked) like an extra from Star Trek... hysterical! Good to laugh at yourself right!?!

K x

The Woodland Walk

Last Sunday we visited the woodland walk at Charborough Estate near Wareham. It's not open to the public very often. The rain hung around a bit, but we still enjoyed being out in the fresh air.

Of course it was the perfect time for bluebells.

Had to look this one up when we got home... it's yellow archangel.

And this one... Bugle.

The folly... Charborough Tower.

The views were amazing.

The private house.

The smell of the wild garlic was so strong.

After the walk we had a cup of tea and home-made cakes at the charity stall.

Jake took this one as we drove out the gate.