Work In Progress

I have spent spent the last couple of days working on the tent/marquee for the ball tonight. Firday was a very LONG day! We arrived at 9am and stopped working at 5pm. We have to go back for a couple of hours this morning and we will be all set for tonight. I think it looks really nice and will be even better when the lighting is finished and candles are lit. The weather is not the best ~ cloudy and a cold 57 degrees with heavy rains expected tonight. Oh well...it is the UK!

How it looked Friday morning

This is how it looked when we left...this is actually my table!

Cupcakes Again!!

I am at again....making cupcakes :-} Maggie has a garden party at school tomorrow afternoon and her class is responsible for bringing cakes. We had a great time making these 'dirt' cupcakes ~ she thinks the girls will LOVE them.

15 Years Ago Today.....

Tim and I were married. It is hard to believe that it has been 15 years already....it really does not seem that long! I guess we are getting old. Tonight we will be going out to dinner and I already received my gift ~ a beautiful double strand black pearl necklace with matching earings as well as a ring :-} His gift, unfortunately, is not ready yet but should hopefully be ready to pick up by the end of the week. I cannot say what it is as he does on occassion check out the blog.

Sports Day and Dance Recital

Maggie had sports day this past Friday and we were lucky enough that the rain stopped for the hour and there was even some sunshine! I cannot begin to tell you how much rain we have had over the past week. Anyway, Maggie had a fun day and even came in second place for one of the events...she was thrilled.

This afternoon, she had her dance recital for both ballet and tap/modern. It was a very nice program but the lighting was poor so I only got 1 somewhat decent shot...oh well, hopefully I will have better photos next time.

It is....wait, it isn't!

Took Andrew back to the Doctor this morning to have his thumb looked at again. This time, the doctor said it WAS NOT broken but rather a brusing/inflamation of the tendons at the joint. So, there is nothing to be done only to lightly exercise the thumb until he gets its strength back. I am glad that is all it is so that it won't interfere with his activity trip to France in a couple of weeks.

Yet another injury!

Yep you read correctly....we have another injury in the family. Any guess as to which child it was this time? Maggie? NO! Chris? Amazingly NO! So it has to be Andrew! His latest injury happened yesterday after school playing cricket. Somehow his friend was falling down and somehow Andrew's thumb got hurt in the process. It was swollen and sore but today he wanted to have it checked out as it was getting worse.

After spending an hour at the walk in clinic we were sent to the A/E {emergency room} at the hospital for xrays and further evaluation. THREE, yes 3, hours later we were told he has a broken thumb {distal phalange} and they supported it with TAPE. We go now need to go to the fracture clinic on Wednesday to have it looked at further and they will do something else to set it/help it. It is crazy the process that you need to go through when you have an injury.
Sorry, but the NHS is an archaic system that is in desperate need of modernization.

Small Change...Big Difference

I have been wanting to take the desk out of the breakfast/kids tv room for ages and it is finally out! {I also added a new rug and what a difference it makes} I wasn't planning on buying a new rug but a man came to the door selling them from his truck ~ yep, door to door carpet man! Anyway, he had one I liked and after a short time of negotiation I became the proud owner of a new rug. The desk was where the chair is in photo #2...bottom right corner. The entire room has been opened up and I am quite pleased with how it now looks. Why it took me SO long to change it around I do not know.