Grateful and spoilt

Emily answered a call from Mum while I was driving to school this morning. Mum asked her to ask me to ring back when I got home. I rang back while I was walking back to the car once Emily had gone in to school. Mum said Dad wanted to know if I could go round to their house because he wanted to ask me a question about his camera (ours are very similar), so I said I'd go straight from school. When I got there Mum and Dad gave me this ....

a new lens for my camera!! There wasn't really a question to be asked! I'm told it's an early birthday present and a thank you for running them around. I, being a true Jeffrey/Stevenson, burst into tears because it was so totally unexpected. What a wonderful present - I am extremely grateful. Thank you Mum and Dad, I really appreciate it!

I haven't had much chance to play with it yet but I did take these photos to give you an idea of how much it will zoom in.

Before (I did crop slightly because the study is a mess again.) After. Sitting in the same position and zooming in.

When we got back from the school pick up, I was telling Emily why Grandma had phoned and she posed for this shot. She hadn't even had time to take her coat and school bag off!

Thank you once again

xxxx

More snow .... and ironing!

We've had more snow/sleet today and it was really chilly outside. The tops of my ears were freezing by the time I walked Emily up the road to school and then back to my car.

I had made up my mind that today was the day that I had to tackle this ....

It might not look too bad in this photo but there were two baskets like this. Anyway, I set up in front of the TV and settled in for a morning of ironing. I was right, I stopped for a break at 12.30pm and then got back to it until it was time to pick Emily up from school. I like to see this ..
and this ...

at the end of it all. One job to tick off the To Do list!

Not much else happened so until tomorrow, have a good evening.

xx

A new week ...

We gained a couple of extra "children" for dinner last night. I managed to get one photo before they refused to co-operate.

Claire, Chris, Emily, Faith and Hugh

Well, they said snow on Monday and they were right!!! Woke up this morning to a sprinkling of snow on the ground and cars. It didn't settle for long so it was just as well I took a couple of photos before it melted.

I had good intentions of doing all my ironing after shopping at Sainsburys this morning but ... it didn't happen. I went into Emily's room to vacuum up some fish food that had been spilt and then ended up cleaning out the hamster cage and finally tidied up the rest of her room too. That was the morning gone and ironing was forgotten.

After lunch I made a start on dinner before taking Chris to the station to get his train up to London. I then went to pick up Emily after Street Dance only to find out I had been supposed to go to a Parent's Consultation with her teacher. We waited for a short while and Mrs Rispin was able to slot me in when a parent didn't turn up. Emily is doing really well and Mrs Rispin had nothing but good to say about her. That's the way we like it =o)

Enjoy the rest of your day

xx

Mother's Day

Today is Mother's Day in the UK so to any Mums reading this blog, I hope you had a happy Mothers Day and that you have been spoilt in some way. We had a fairly quiet morning and then had Mum and Dad, Iain, Louise, Max and Faith round for afternoon tea and cake (supplied by Iain and Louise). Nice to have a little family get together again, it feels like it's been a while.

The three Mums
Mum

Louise

me

Faith, Dad and Emily

Jon

Today was also Claire and Chris's 1 year anniversary. Claire had made a small scrapbook for Chris with photos taken from throughout the year. They were looking at the scrapbook when I took this photo.

Chris was due to go back to Blackpool this afternoon and because trains weren't running from East Grinstead we took him to Crawley to catch one from Three Bridges. Unfortunately, when we got there we were told that the train had been cancelled and the next one which had been supposed to go to East Croydon and then on to Victoria was going to London Bridge. Chris ended up missing his coach and will now have an extra night with us before travelling home tomorrow afternoon. Claire is a very happy girl today, very different to how she was on the way to the station earlier =o)

Enjoy the rest of your day

xx