The very lovely Marylin over at Softthistle.net is the inventor of Sunday Snippets.
Sunday Snippets might just be the vehicle I need to get me out of my latest blogging drought. My Sunday Snippets will have to cover the last 18 days, rather than the last week but don’t worry, we haven’t been up too much!
The Husband has now joined the ranks of “people I have taken to hospital this year”. You may laugh, but that’s four now. I’m beginning to think that I’m unlucky.
We’re (yes, I actually mean “he’s” but “we’re” sounds better) re-doing the second bathroom and he hacked a chunk out of his finger while removing tiles. I am told that it hurt like billyo (no, that wasn’t the word he used).
The school continues in it’s not so subtle attempt to extract our life savings on a weekly basis. Last week was Crazy Hair day, for which we had to pay £1 per child (to be fair the money for that one went to Children in Need), and mufti day for which we had to hand over one full bottle per child.
I’ve found out that as well as seeing Santa at the school Christmas Fayre (their spelling, not mine), which we have to pay for, the school is also planning to take the children to see another Santa in a nearby shopping centre, which we have to pay for. I have finally put my financial foot down and said that the girl can’t go to both.
And really, don’t get me started on the cost of school photographs. I was really shocked when I found out how much they cost. We’ve bought one, it’s their first year at school/pre-school after all, but next year I might just do my own.
I attempted to explain the finer points of Hipstamatic to the Husb. I don’t think he was terribly impressed.
And finally, I have totally saved the best until last for you.
The girl is reading. Real, proper reading. I am so impressed and so pleased for her. Before I had children I used to read at least two or three books a week and often had more than one on the go. Being able to read is such a huge thing. I think I’m probably as proud, if not more so, as when she learnt to walk.
Yes, that is one of those books. Hands up who remembers Peter and Jane? The series is actually called Key Words with Peter and Jane. They’re still publishing them and I don’t think the pictures have changed since the 1970′s. A dose of pure nostalgia for me and a key aid for her.
What a great achievement for The Girl! YAY! Zack has started reading too
I am commenting here but I am still thinking about your previous peanut post. I think it will be when the boy is a teenager that you will have the most challenges with his allergy. Sneaky bloody peanut protein.
and Yay for reading, the girl will never be lonely if she has a book to hand.
ah that’s class on the reading – it’s such a massive achievement
that finger most certainly needs something stronger than”billyo” to describe it
Oh WOW, reading is huge! WELL DONE!
Nostalgia aside (and well done the girl) aren’t the reading books really pants? Big pants with no gusset. We’re doing the Oxford Reading (Tree? is it a tree?) and they are awful!
Clever The Girl – hats off! And ouch (on the finger and the demands for cash left, right and centre) x