Confused...you will be

I'm getting a little confused with all this blogging. I've only got 2 blogs, but somehow I keep getting muddled up with what I'm doing, so if you find any of my cooking recipes on this page then you know why. I thought maybe it was an age thing, but thinking back, I was doing exactly the same thing when my twins were born. Those were the days when you had girls nappies and boys nappies, (pink ones and blue ones). How many times did I get up in the morning only to find my son in a pink nappy and my daughter in a blue one? It wouldn't have really mattered if the nappies hadn't been specifically designed to catch the flow of wee either upwards at the front, (boys), or downwards to the back, (girls). In consequence, both had soaking wet clothes and bed linen, which only made my job harder! And it was hard enough already, with my eldest, who was just 4 at the time, biting at my ankles. I have a video of me tending to all 3 at the same time; sitting at the table feeding my eldest with my right arm, ( I know, he always was a fussy eater), with one baby in my left arm bottle feeding, and rocking the other baby with my foot in the swing chair. The worst was going out, getting the babies and the eldest in and out of the car. I didn't use the pushchair for school trips, it was easier to leave the twins in their car seats and carry them in, plus it was good weight training. But, as I had to put one down on the pavement so as to put the other in the car, (or take one out), I always had this great fear of leaving one of them on the pavement by accident, or that someone may swipe one of them when my back was turned. Thankfully that never happened, and I always made a mental note of counting the children before driving away, silly thing is I still do it today! But the hard work paid off, the sleepless nights passed quickly and the twins grew into two very different, in fact very opposite, lovely individuals, and my eldest is equally as lovely. One thing didn't change though.......the amount of washing they create!!

A thought for Jade Goody and family

Happy Valentines Day! On this special "Love" day, let us just spare a thought to Jade Goody and her family, may they have the strength to get through their heartache. Also to the families of those who lost their lives in the tragic air crash in New York, and to anybody else who may be suffering in any way. I may not have been lucky in the lottery last night, (no, we are not making a detour to Paris!), but I am lucky to have a wonderful family, all of whom are healthy and happy. Have a good day, whatever you are doing, and take care of those precious to you.

Am I feeling lucky?

Balls!! That's all I've got to say. I dreamt about balls last night, and I've been seeing balls all day. I didn't, unfortunately, see any numbers on the balls, but figured that it might be a sign from a higher place so I went out and bought a ticket for the Euromillions anyway. And it's Friday the 13th, not sure if that will bring good or bad luck, but hey, I won't be any worse off if the luck turns sour. Like they say "you gotta be in it to win it!". The kids want to go ice skating tomorrow, so when I told them we might not be able to go, (in case we need to do a quick detour to Paris to pick up the cheque), they weren't very happy. My daughter lay face down on the floor thumping the carpet, my n° 2 son stamped so hard up the stairs that the light fittings came down, and the eldest son said, "yeah, I mean cool, like... whatever". Wicked mum soon turned into a princess with a halo when I said that if we were lucky enough to win, I still wouldn't take them, but I would buy them an ice rink instead........Yeah, right...whatever!

Todays the day, I feel good here in France

I FEEL GOOD!!!!!

What a glorious day it is today! The sun is shining, the sky is blue and there's not a cloud to spoil the view, (sorry, I couldn't resist that one, however it's not raining in my heart). But it is such a lovely day, only 8 degrees in the shade, but in the sun I could even have the terrace doors open. I awoke with that "I'm gonna conquer the earth" feeling, and conquer I did. First I conquered the housework, then I conquered the washing, then the lunch, then the sibbling disputes, then the supermarket, then the more sibbling disputes, now the blog up-date and later the dinner! Wow, how's that for a bit of conquering. And what of the after the cooking conquering, I hear you ask? Well, then it's conquering the putting my feet up, snuggling amongst the cushions and falling asleep in front of the tv. All this energy because the sun is shining, well maybe, or maybe because I went to bed very early last night and clocked about 12 hours sleep! Probably not a good idea to do that every night, but it certainly did the trick last night. What have you conquered today? And what was it that inspired you, sleep, sunshine or just that feel good factor??

Am I losing it, or is it blogging the blogger

I'm sitting here not sure what to write about today. You know the feeling when your mind is a complete blank. It doesn't help when the kids have got a million friends round and are running riot left and right! I've just sent them all out into the garden, not sure if that was the right thing to do as they're playing football and it's very muddy. I suppose I'll have a million angry mothers on the phone later. Well let them have them all screaming around theirs, and I'm sure mud will become a trivial matter. But I'm still blank. Seems to be happening alot, lately. I shook my head the other day and I swear I heard a rattling noise! Must be all this blogging, it's making me hear things....or maybe there really is something loose up there, whichever, I'm sure it's not serious. I've got Deal or No Deal on the tv, (sad), and having a giggle at them all dressed as hippies for the special "Love Week" for valentines day. Wonder how many valentines day cards I'll get this year? Last year the postman couldn't fit them all in the post box, and we were out at the time, so he donated them all to charity and I never got to see them. At least that was the tall story I got from my other half. Wonder what story he'll come up with this year?

Very strong wind, they weren't wrong!

Last night at about 7 pm the wind started to whoosh up. They had announced high winds but the day hadn't been too bad so I assumed that they had got it wrong, at least for our area. By about 9 pm you could here it howling through the shutters, something that I have become accustomed to as it is often windy here, and the house is very old. At 11.30pm I decided to go to bed and went to let the dog out for his nightly doings. As I opened the shutter I could feel the pressure of the wind pulling against me and all of a sudden WHOOSH!! The shutters flew out of my hands, the swing chair on the terrace was doing somersaults, the table was up side down and there were bits of I don't know what debris floating past my nose! The dog, as you may have guessed, did an about turn and sat quivering behind the sofa for fear that he may get blown away. After wrestling with the shutters one last time, I decided to go to bed in the hope that it would have eased off by the morning. I'm not sure what I was expecting to find this morning, but it certainly wasn't what I did find. The wind had ripped through the terrace fence, completely destroying it, and the neighbours new fence too now resembles firewood. The front of the house looked as if a tornado had whipped through leaving a path of debris, rubbish & broken roof tiles behind it. One roof tile had landed a foot away from my beautiful car, my prize possession!! There were trees down in the road, and all my plant pots were eventually found on the other side of the village in a tree! Thank goodness I didn't have any underwear on the washing line!! The satelite dish was blown up-wards so when I switched on the tv I was no longer tuned in to English tv, but some other foreign network that I didn't have a hope in hell of understanding. A little un-prepared to say the least, so next time they forecast "Strong winds", I'll batten down the hatches and remove anything not securely fixed from the garden, and, of course, put my car in the garage!!

Pancakes and Valentines

Valentines day is drawing near again, (has it really been a year already?), so it's time for me to start dropping subtle hints to my hubby! I'm not kidding, 2 weeks before our wedding anniversary I have to dig out my wedding dress and parade around the house in it every evening in the hope that he'll get the drift!!That usually does the trick, except that I don't own a valentines dress so I guess I'll have to don some wacky glasses like my friend above!

And then we'll have pancake day, or Shrove Tuesday, on the 24th, will you be doing any of the races or tossing, (I'm sorry if that was badly put!)? I tried it last year, thought I was being cool for the kids, but I'm still trying to peel the remnants of those darn pancakes off the ceiling to this day! Think I'll give that one a miss this year, and take the kids out to a Creperie instead.