Sniffles, School and Daddys trip.

I guess its that time of year again. With the boys back in school they are bringing home new cold germs and delightfully spreading them with all of us. My littlest has had a fever but still bouncing around here playing, she just likes to cuddle alot. which I dont mind with how I am feeling. The rest have runny noises and coughs. dosing everyone up on ech and vit C hopefully that will help them not get too sick. 

This picture does a pretty good job in explaining how I feel right now. I have not had a proper cold in a couple of years so it has really made me feel tired.  

In other news school is going really well. The two younger boys have settled into school really well. They both love it and so it does make it easier getting them up and to school each day. 

The older two are hard at work here. C is determined to do two years in one year so we will see how that plays out. He's not behind he just wants to get ahead. And when C is determined about something he can do it. :) 

K was in Holland for 6 days last week. He had my computer so I was unable to post till now. He really enjoyed his time. You can see what things he did etc on his blog. www.velomobiles.co.uk

He brought back a bunch of dutch treats for us all. The kids love dutch food so were pretty excited. 

In school we are learning dutch this year (there cousins are half dutch and lots of friends are dutch so they want to be able to speak dutch :) ) so it is fun trying to read the ingredients and figure them out. we have a good laugh doing it. 

Believe it or not I am still working on getting there chore board finished. Dont get me wrong they are doing there chores but I have a temp thing for them to put them into. I have to wait 4 weeks before I can put the Vinyl names onto the board as I have painted it.

Well its quiet here at the moment. Everyone except little one and I are out at Church as its communion session this weekend. I think I will take advantage of the quiet and get a little rest.

Enjoy your day. :)  

Day out with my son.

Yesterday I had the privilege to spend the day out with my eldest son just him and me.

I had to go in and do my barometric reading for my immigration and so C came with me. We went via train into Leeds. After we got my stuff sorted we went shopping for trousers for him and then I let him pick next what he wanted to do. So he picked bowling. He loved it! It was a lot of fun just having time with just him. With five I hardly get just one on one time. Here are pictures from the day hope you enjoy.


On our way in on the train.

Bowling

My turn

Having fun. 

He really worked at tossing the balls correctly.

Enjoying hot chocolate after our game.

My caramel latte. 

Saturday in York.

We spent the day on Saturday in York at the cycle show and got to try out lots of different kinds of bikes. Lots of pics so enjoy.

The mom

A friend had a post about William Tells overture and it reminded me of this song. I never get tired of hearing it. I am sure you have heard it before but to me its still such a funny song. Enjoy.

Chores.....

I have been revamping the chore-cards today. I have been using 3 x 5 cards and writing on them the name of the chore and then drawing a picture. They were nice except that they got splashed, things dropped on them and mixed up with other things so we needed to figure out a new way of doing them.

So I thought why not do them on the computer and print them out and laminate them, so with my husbands help in making a template for the cards, and I have been successful. They look very clean and tidy now. I am revamping where they hang too as the plastic pockets keep falling off. I will have to post a pic once I am finished with all of it.

Just a side note...I hate migraines!

School starts on Thursday! 

Just about ready for school and.....

I think we are almost all done and ready for school. Uniforms have been bought...new shoes....books together for older ones....new pencils....new pens....new paper...all school drawers organized and labeled....Now to put labels in all the uniforms before Thurs....oh and I have to finish writing the older ones assignments in there books, but all in all it has been a very busy productive week.

All seemed to be going really well until........today......our toilet seat broke....yep you heard me right....I went into town to see if I could find one and no one had any...So well K worked hard and got the bottom of it hooked on after a fashion...its a bit dodgy but if you sit still well.......

So I know the chore for Monday! :)