Quick note!

I have one thing I want to do this year that is easy! I plan to cook one recipe a week from the BBC food website - who knows what each week, but some thing different and nice!

Plans

Plans are a good thing - if only they came to be realised more often!

This week I planned to bake and planned to tidy and planned to do something creative with the kids.

So far I have managed all three! Yay!

I combined baking with being creative and the kids cut out butter biscuits on Wednesday after school - shortly after baking said bisuits they ate said biscuits! Which is good! And being organised (I wish) I managed to freeze some of the dough as suggested in the book and will be able to produce it on a rainy afternoon to do the same again soon. Hurrah!

Next week I am planning to procure things to pop in a bag ready for new baby number 4 - So far she/he has raised £88 for the PICU at Southampton General Hospital! I am very proud of this unexpected baby and it's fund raising capabilties!

I also plan to try and finish the cardi I started a good 6 months ago and to do some more sewing - I have missed it.

Maybe I will slightly pinch Jess' idea and jot all the things I would like to achieve down here and keep a list going??

My final short gripe is how come the cost of living goes up and yet my income stays exactly the same?? How does that work?

Primary School Admissions Letter Day

Today we got the letter telling us where Daisy who will be JUST 4 in September will be going to Primary School. It is not our choice of school and this has really upset me.

Our choice was the school Storm went to - Foundry Lane - where we know everyone and I am involved in helping out from time to time. It's where she has been at Pre-School since September and has a group of little friends and is known and loved by everyone and irrational though it is it has made me unbelievably sad to think that she won't know anyone at the school the council have decided she is going to. How is that fair?

And how is it fair that people who have no connection to the place get first dibs, If Storm was six months younger he would still be there and it would be all good - but this means I will have to find a new pre-school for Toby, and use a childminder before and after school because of the times I work. And I have never even been to the school. Plus it's only an infant school so I will have the same heart ache and issues in 3 years when she moves to Juniors.

I don't need this right now. I am stressed and upset and nearly 7 months pregnant and on the 1st March I will have this trauma again when the secondary school decisions are made.

And from what I can gather I have no real grounds to appeal on.

This sucks.

A lot.

How much?!?!?

Today I got post that wasn't specifically a bill but was inviting me to spend money! Which is a bit lame all in all!

The problem is that I really want to go and do the lectures that they are offering - It's for the ballet exam I am studying for. Once the theory is done then I am qualified. Which really needs to happen sooner rather than later. Else it will never happen!!!!

I also wonder how well my health will hold up? And if it might be better to do some of the studying with a distance learning tutor. I may have a plan - but I shall have to think about it!!

Ow!

I am sat with the laptop on my knees looking out of the back doors at the very fine snow and watching Toby kissing the characters of the night garden on the tv. Very sweet.

We pottered about and drank tea this morning, I have prepped all my teaching stuff for next week and have also organised a young lady to actually do the dancing for me as I have PGP.

PGP stands for Pelvic Girdle Pain and equals not very much fun. I am aware of the pain in the mornings but by the time tea time rolls round I generally am ready to climb into a hot bath and soak. Sitting hurts, standing hurts, lying down hurts. The worst thing is probably doing the washing up - I am not sure why this should be but it is.

Not fun.