My boy....

Vasco. Here are some recent pictures of him enjoying being out in the field with his best friend Oliver. I am really enjoying him.

Facebook

OH and I are addicted to Facebook at the mo. Its crazy. We both go on having a look for friends during the day and then again at night. So far I have found my best friend from primary school, who I have not seen for over 20 years!! I am sooo excited about finding her. We hope to meet up over the children's summer holidays. She has two sons, 9 and 2.5. It only feels like yesterday that we were kids wearing dodgy 70s/80s clothes and playing british bulldog!! I do love the internet =-)

Gardening Therapy

I have just spent the past couple of hours pottering around in the garden, tidying, mowing, de-pooing etc. I am no gardener as I have the brownest fingers and seem to kill every plant in my care!! But as with most things that are OH jobs, he stops doing them and I then seem to adopt them as mine. The therapy has helped this morning as I have spoken to our estate agents.... If we want to sell, the long and short of it is that we need to drop the price again. OH and I are going to chat about it tonight. I must admit I cried a little after getting off the phone, I feel as if everything is against us. The housing market and the Euro *sigh*. Its enough to turn me to chocolate...

On a good note, Olivia turned 9 at the beginning of the month. We got her an iPod Touch (OH idea, not mine) as she was saving for a Nano and a Nintendo Wii and a couple of other bits and pieces. She had a lovely day, apart from having to go to school. Olivia wanted a duck pond cake which a friend makes but I only found out after eating the last piece of it that the poor girl never got to have any. I feel awful, poor thing. We also took her to London to go shopping in Hamley's (its not what I remember as a kid!) and lunch at The Rainforest Cafe. We had a fantastic day. Got a fast train to Waterloo and then a taxi straight to the door of Hamleys. Lunch was a real experience. The restaurant has about 4-5 waterfalls, the ceiling is hanging with plastic foliage and various creatures are hiding about the place. Oh and about every 20 mins there is a thunder storm, thankfully without any rain!! We sat near a huge fish tank and got to watch the fishes over lunch.

My Little Man

This past week it has dawned on me that my little boy is growing up and fast (sniff). He now calls me Mum instead of Mumma (I think he is far to young to be doing this! lol), he was singing along (in his own funny way) to a song in the car today, his speech is getting better all the time and he is just getting physically bigger. At times as a parent you are wishing they were more independent but at the same time you greave (not sure if that is the right word) for the time when they were babies. Sigh.....

Aloha

We booked our summer holiday yesterday. TWO weeks in Hawaii, woooooooooo, hoooooooooo! OH really needs it. I am sooooo excited, I feel like a big kid. OH has always said that he would like to take us all there. The only places that I really fancy going to is Hawaii and New Zealand. Roll on August =-)

On another happy note we have a viewing today with a couple who viewed our house on Thursday evening. So we are keeping everything crossed. They are also viewing a couple of others for the second time. However our estate agent said that he did prefer our house out of the three that they are viewing. Lets hope they feel the same.......

Let It Snow.....

Woke this morning to five inches of snow!!! What is going on? So the kids and I were outside this morning at 7.30am playing in it. When the weather people say that we are going to have snow it usually means a handful of flakes that do not settle. We only ever see this sort of snow when we go skiing. The dog loves it but our eldest cat Bella was not at all impressed. However Azlan seemed to enjoy himself pouncing on the snow and charging through it.

Our open house did not go very well. We had ONE couple turn up. I am not sure if the weather helped, it was chucking it down with rain. I spent the whole day cleaning, dusting etc. Grrrrrrrrr! I even got rid of the kids and animals. However we have had a couple of viewings since then. We are still keeping everything crossed for a buyer.

We had a lovely easter. Olivia more then us as my sister took her to Disneyland Paris with her cousin by eurostar. The rest of us were very jealous. I cannot believe how many rides they went on. They packed so much in. The kids as always got brought too many chocolate eggs. We still have a pile of them. I might melt them down and make some cornflake cakes.

2nd Time Lucky (Fingers Crossed!)

Dropped that kids off at school this morning, came home and spent two hours sorting the house for the estate agents visit!! They looked around the house and seemed quite impressed. They have the same house as ours on there books but on for 10k more. The people who own the other house are in no rush to move so happily over price it. There are some other smaller properties for sale in our estate that will be on for the same price as ours. I am sure we will ruffle a few feathers by pricing ours so competitively. I feel we are just being realistic with the price. I have also decided to do an open day with our house. Never tried that before, what is the worse thing that can happen? The house will not sell that day. At least we would have tried. They took pics and details, just waiting now to check them. OH has just called me with his holiday dates in August, so fingers crossed we hope to be viewing houses that week in Italy….

Once that estate agents left Luca and I had lunch. He then had a nap while I ironed my way through our mountain of clean clothes. I then had to collect the kids from school followed by a trip to the bank and supermarket. Then home and cook the kids dinner. I am pooped.

I rode Vasco three times last week. Bliss. He is lovely to ride and esp comfy with my instructors dressage saddle. Will try and take more pics soon.