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The crazies...

we all get them..our kids have got them a lot recently. Its like someone has fired them up with sugar and E numbers and set them loose. They charge around the house like out of control fireworks and sometimes its best to just let them run themselves out. The best thing about it is it seems to include all of them and they all get along in the madness...if you see what i mean...

even baby Matilda, who this evening was having none of the 'your off to bed' nonsense and shouted at us A LOT until i picked her up and she was like 'big beaming smiles and hi there' all over her face...

Gotta love them tho...

Friday night...

is apparently NOT the night to go to the local kids A&E (ER)....and yup after my last friday evening I can absolutely positively agree with that. Maisie fell over at school, in a pretty spectacular way it has to be said and then screamed about her arm for the next hour or so. Off we went, got booked in and when i got round to Minor injuries and saw there was not even a free chair my heart dropped.

She had calmed down by this time and was relatively happy but wouldnt move her arm or let me touch it..but when the lovely staff nurse spoke to her she smiled and laughed and moved her arm.....er...okaaay....

An X ray and another wait and we got seen and told that there was possibly a tiny fracture at her wrist and they would treat conservatively anyway and splint it...which they did, she was not happy about that...

So we are going back next week and im guessing that they will say she is fine. But i made a large mental note to myself to remember that our Maisie is nothing if not a bit of a drama queen as she proved when we were half way to the hospital and she stopped screaming in a split second and said..

'mummy, when Poppy hurt her arm did she go to the hospital too!"

This is me at IKEA....watching them all have tea!!

Mummy tells me that she blogged this on her phone, i have no idea what she is talking about but would love to try some of that food they are all tucking into....

i think we can say it is official......

that we are now rabbit owners (singular). We havent seen 'bb' for about two weeks. Still pretty impressed that if something did 'carry' him off that it managed to get over about three five foot fences before it hit the open road. So this little chap is the last one standing and actually has become much more friendly as a result...to bad it had to loose its buddy to decide that us humans are worth giving a bit of time too......

Reasons to be cheerful.....

another little gem taken from the britgirl blog...go check her out.

So my reasons to be cheerful right now at this moment, 'cos obviously would be very easy to put down the kids and ben right? although that would be 5 reasons...er...anyway, back to the point...

1. picture frames waiting for pictures, waiting for the wall...finally!

2. A buddy of mine from work who emigrated to Oz about a month ago showing up on facebook...

3. Seeing a friend over the weekend who is about six months pregnant with her first baby and just feeling very happy to bask in the glow :)

Also feeling pretty happy that Matilda slept till 5am this morning, might not sound like much but is a small victory for me and a tiny deposit in the sleep bank which has been running quite overdrawn in the past week or so if you know what i mean...!!

fingers taste good too...

and yes i know you might be wondering how in the heck she is holding her head up with those cheeks? I do to.....but its a James baby thing..those cheeks, a signature move...

I saw someone today...

wearing driving gloves??? I had no idea that people still wore such things? Im sure it cant have been because her hands were cold, it was about 29degrees C (84F for those american friends)...maybe her steering wheel was really really hot? Maybe they were some of those gloves that people wear to keep their skin nice...I just don't know but i drove past this lady with her t shirt and pink cotton (looking) gloves on and thought...hmmmm..that looks weird...but maybe not, maybe its a new trend? Maybe we should all try it? no?

photography today bought to you by Poppy Grace, 3 years and 7 months...

all taken with a point and shoot that we let them pretty much have free reign off - but that might change since we recently discovered that Isaac had taken the camera into the bathroom with him...do i need to say anymore?.....

so the dream ends....

anyone surprised?

hmm..okay..a little unfair...but not so much...

Anyway secretly I was rooting for the other Andy *gasp* i kinda like him, he seems like a nice guy and was incredibly gracious in all his interviews...(now you see what i mean about needing to 'like' someone!) and lets face it, played better tennis when all is said and done. Sorry Mr Murray but , dude, you are in serious need of a personality transplant. Have you seen him being interviewed? yeah i think fresh paint on a wall doing its thing might be a bit sweeter to watch...

and the 'I am Scottish thing, so ill cheer for whoever might beat England' *eye roll* dont even get me started.....Scotland is part of the UK, as is England, so just deal with it buddy...

You can tell I have issues here right? LOL

:)

playing in the lightroom...

just quickly because im off to bed, this lightroom/photoshop thing can be as bad for my sleep deprivation as Matilda on some counts.....

i know this is a bit after the event...

but Michael Jackson....thats pretty sad isnt it? It is sad in itself, i mean, anyone dying like that at the age of 50 is pretty harsh. But oh my did that poor man ever have a distorted life. I read on a blog posted by someone who had met him in person that without the media he was actually a normal (ish) person and just put it all on for the cameras, record company etc. 

I dunno, i just think what a tragedy...a child whose life was a less than healthy before the fame and obviously so very unhealthy after the fame was never ever going to get away with being un touched by the madness of it all.

I have to hold my hand up and say that I was a fan. His music, i enjoyed it when i was younger, the 80's stuff. It was part of my childhood, my transition to teens and early twenties. So there are plenty of significant memories come flooding back when i hear one of his tracks from that time. Have to say i dont play them myself, usually just catching it on the radio or something.

I remember when the first video of Billy Jean was on MTV, not that we had MTV (wow remember the people in school who had MTV...were they cool or what!) but i remember the hoo hah. My brother and I got tickets to see him in concert years ago, i think it was in about 1987 ish...it was supposedly his only ever concert in the UK...er...yeah....but anyway i didnt go because i had a job. But my brother got me a t-shirt..heck,id totally forgotten that, i used to wear it all the time...

But since those days when he seemed like just a talented musician doing his thing, he has just got more and more crazy, car crash, weirdville hasnt he?  and being honest that just turns me off. I remember reading in a paper years ago about him sleeping in an oxygen tent ( remember that one!!) and i thought 'yer lunatic' 

Because you know I am one of those people who likes to support people who are real...have heart, a story, compassion, a family, love their ma, doin' it for the kids..type of person. Yep I am a reality TV persons dream i suppose...LOL..

but anyhow i need a connection and MJ lost me when he started being bizarre, weird and not reachable. Im sure it was the nuttiness of his world that sent him spiralling off the genius/madman spectrum but i sort of turned off, drifted away and put some distance in. 

Not that he would have been the slightest bit concerned or bothered by that I imagine. Im sure there were enough yes men around him that it would be easy to believe you could do no wrong....

nah...i guess i just feel sorry for him though, such a sad life to lead....i hope somehow he has some peace now.

Interestingly enough (well to me anyhow) I was quite amazed when Isaac came home from school and told me that did i know Michael Jackson had died...and when i said that i did...

he reliably told me that yes in fact Michael Jackson had died and he had, had a heart attack and only lived for 10 seconds?

When I asked Isaac did he know who Michael Jackson was, he said very seriously...

'I think he is in the juniors mum'