Thanks Carrie ;o)

 On Tuesday, Carrie posted about her 10 recommendations on Netflix and asked if we had Netflix.  Well, I'm the first to admit that I'm not up to date with all the latest things so I went and asked Hugh if he knew.  Turns out Netflix has recently become available in the UK and Hugh had just signed up and thought it was great.

Yesterday Hugh signed me up to Netflix. He signed up through his Xbox so he can watch the films/programmes on his TV and he signed us up through the Wii so we can watch on our TV. It can also be watched on iPad, iPhone, I would imagine iPod Touch and your computer. Am I impressed? Very!! You have a great selection to choose from and the streaming is fantastic, no delays!  At the moment we've signed up for a month's free trial but if we decide to stay with Netflix it's a really reasonable monthly fee.  Have a look and see for yourself.

I really enjoy a feel good movie and last night I watched "A lot like love", I didn't know what to expect but I really enjoyed it. It made me laugh in a couple of places and at the end of the movie I was in a happy place ;o)  

Thanks for telling us about Netflix, Carrie. Anyone else going to try Netflix?

xx

11 : 365(+1)

As the 11th was a Wednesday and I have Alice (Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays) there was a good chance my photo for the day would have Alice in it! ;o) 

While eating her lunch today we were counting the number of items of food on her plate.  She loves it on Show Me, Show Me (a TV programme on CBeebies) when the lift goes up the 10 floors and they count from 1 - 10.  So we've started counting little things and today it happened to be some Skips (crisps {English} chips {American/South African}) she was having.  She already counts one, two and I was carrying on, three, four!  I thought it sounded like she was trying to copy me but at this stage it's not clear talking, we just tend to know what she's saying.  However, when Emily got home from school she also though Alice counted one, two, three!  We may be making progress :o) 

I feel so blessed to be able to spend as much time as I do with Alice. I know there are many Grandparents who would love to be able to spend more time with their grandchildren and I/we are so lucky to have the opportunity to do just that. 

xx

10 : 365(+1)

Mum had an appointment at the Doctor's yesterday because she's been having fairly regular nose bleeds recently. I picked her up and took her to the surgery and went in with her.  She explained how the nosebleeds had started and how she never knows when they're going to happen. The Doctor had a look up Mum's nose and said she could see the blood vessel that was causing the problem and would cauterise it, which would hopefully stop the nosebleeds. 

Off she went to get what she needed and when she came back she shone the torch up Mum's nose again and went to cauterise it.  No sooner had she finished than Mum could feel a nosebleed starting! We sat waiting while Mum went through tissue after tissue and in the end the Doctor asked if we'd like to go and sit outside in a private corridor until the nosebleed stopped. She was most apologetic and made sure Mum was comfortable, brought her plenty of tissues then came back with a kidney bowl and a cold pack wrapped in a towel. After she'd left Mum said "Pity you haven't got your camera!"  and I replied "I have!"   Mum said, "If you want a photo for today, go ahead!"  So I did!

We had such a laugh sitting there, with anyone who passed by wanting to know if Mum was alright or offering advice. When the Doctor came back and asked if we'd like to go back into her rooms, Mum said No!  We laughed so much and the Doctor promised not to try and do anything more!  So funny!  It seems that when the torch was inserted into the nose the second time it must have actually knocked the blood vessel which is why it started bleeding!  Mum was fine and we went for a coffee afterwards. She's got to go for blood tests tomorrow and may be referred to an ENT specialist so that they can cauterise the blood vessel.

It's good to actually have the photos to remember how funny it was.

xx

Project Life Week 1

I started Project Life last year in May but didn't get very far with it :o(    However, I've decided to start again this year and, so far, it's good.  I'm not sure that I'll post every week as most of my photos will have been on the blog already but for now I'm happy that I've got the first week done and the second week has the photos to date already in.  I'd love to be able to keep this up all year and finally have a year documented.  Wish me luck ;o)

I know there will be a lot of photos of Alice in this album as she's a big part of my life at the moment seeing as she's here three days a week. It'll be fun for her to be able to look back at it when she's a bit older and see what we did. 

I'm using the Clementine kit at the moment - I downloaded it from Jessica Sprague.com and have printed and cut out what I wanted to use so far.  I may continue this way or see if I can order the journalling cards on Amazon next month when they are supposed to be available. 

xx