Update

Well, I have eaten a lovely meal with my family; we're all back together today for the first time since mid April, I'm sitting in the living room watching a program about Disney and the Mickey Mouse Show, and I've had a good few glasses of wine. Perfect.

As I said before, alot has happened since I got home. I'll try to go through it logically!

The first thing I remember is the Pirate Day at my mum's school the week after I got home. Admitedly I had to get up at stupid-o-clock in the morning, and I didn't properly wake up until a few coffees later... but I DID get to spend a whole day dressed as a pirate! Out came most of my Jack Sparrow outfit again, the beard got painted back on and I had so much fun. Mum teaches at a special needs school and I love the pupils so much. They are so giving and to spend time with them is so refreshing. In actual fact, going back to work was really hard after that because I found myself comparing my kids to mum's and saying to myself that at least her kids have an obvious reason for being 'troublesome'. But then I realised that 'obvious' is the key word. I know very well that the children at the kids club have many reason's for their behaviour, it's just not as overt and is much easier to condemn.

So, having choked and spluttered my way through a couple of weeks of work... last weekend I went down to Birmingham with Tim's sister and loads of people I don't know for his brother's fiancee's hen-do. Sounds like a random connection but it isn't really and I got to know Ellie pretty well last year when she was in her final year at Durham. It was a wonderful weekend. Her friend and sister went to so much effort. We went to the Taste festival where we got loads of food and wine and champagne... Then we went to see Oliver and we all wore black dresses with a pink ribbon. I had mine around my waist, some had theirs in their hair, around their wrist etc. We looked really classy, not like the stereotypical hen-night thing. The following morning we had a gorgeous champagne breakfast with strawberries, pineapple, salmon on toast, yoghurt, croissants, freshly ground coffee... Yummy.

I went to see Harry Potter yesterday. I'm sure lots of people will have plenty of criticism of it... but I thought it was AMAZING!!! I had forgotten quite alot of the story which was quite good because I was so tense all the way through. At the end I was trembling with adrenaline. There's a scene at the end that I think is so powerful. And yes, I did cry. Twice.

This weekend I've been with my family cos Rich came home today. It's great to see him again, I miss him when we're away from each other. He's just as annoying as always of course. He does this thing where to everything that you say he turns it back and says 'you are...'. For example, earlier I said something like 'no you can't do that because it's broken' and he said 'you're broken'. I said 'don't start that it's annoying' and he said 'you're annoying'. And it goes on like that!

Edd crashed his car on Friday. It was his fault, but an accident as he just didn't stop in time at some lights in the terrible rain. Thankfully the others involved weren't horrible to him and the police could see from the state of him that it wasn't reckless driving or anything like that. And he's totally fine, it's just that the front of his new car is all mashed up. That's the worst part, that he's so upset because it's his new car. And he'd driven mum's for 2 and a half years with not even a scratch. But hey, these things happen.

This week I'm going hat shopping for my friend's wedding on Saturday. I'm so excited about wearing a hat to a wedding. The bride told me that I'll probably be the only one in the whole church, it's quite an informal wedding... but I don't care. I've always wanted to wear a hat to a wedding, and with the distinctive lack of hair, I think that a hat would actually look pretty good.

And of course work. I just can't separate myself from it, I get too involved. Always. Never mind. I hope this wasn't too boring, I've given up trying to write deep and meaningful blogs, I don't do or think anything deep or meaningful anymore anyways.

Hope everyone's well.
xxx