Goodnight,God Bless

These last two week have been very hard,Ive lost my best friend,Grandma to my children and

a huge part of my life.

Babies

Meet Buster,Buster is my sons baby.The biggest, softest,clumsiest dog I've ever met.
Buster is about to have his nose pushed out of joint by my sons other baby.Meet Emma my daughter in law (well a bit of her anyway!) 9 months pregnant and fed up.We are all ready and waiting.

As most of you will know i started fostering about a year ago.Our first gorgeous little foster child went back to his mum in April.

Now this has arrived in my spare room.

And this is parked in the hallway.

Not for Grandchild number 3.All i can tell you is 3 days old and weighing 4lb.

Its all go here you know.

Time to catch up

I feel i have been away from blogging for such a long time so nows the time to catch up with whats been going on here at the madhouse.With having two 2 year old around my garden looked like this for most of the summer. We managed to get away for a week in Skegness and managed to have a warm,sunny,dry week the only one of the summer i think.

We did a lot of this.

And even managed a swim in the outdoor pool.

well a bit of paddling anyway!

Gorgeous has turned 2,and had 2 cakes.lucky boy.This is stitch made by a friend.

And a digger cake from another talented friend.

A birthday banner made by Aunt B.

He spent most of the day bouncing on the borrowed bouncy castle.The best thing ever to keep them happy.

Hopefully now i can try and get my blogging back to normal.Time seems to fly by and with 2 laptops out of action i will fight for my turn on the pc.

Where is it now???

Sometimes i have to hunt for my lovely new camera.And sometimes when i upload the photos i find things like this!!

Put your feet up!

Mothers day?In the morning i took 2 loads to the tip for my son,did 3 loads of washing for daughter No1.Then cooked a Sunday lunch for all the family,who then all left me to wash up!But i did get a box of chocs.I hope your mothers day was a day of relaxation.

Cats

Heres some pics of what the girls have been doing over the weekend!

Not a lot as you can see.

Which room is yours now?

That's usually the question that is asked by many of No 4's friends when they come round to spend time with her (I cant say play now shes 12!).Yesterday was the allocated day to take down her old bed,which was a bunk with a sofa underneath and swap to a single bed.Also to sort out every single item in her room all in a attempt to make it look more grown up!.Now all was going well.We had taken down the spare single bed that was in the attic bedroom,carried it down the attic stairs and we then left it on the small landing on the other staircase.This bed was on its way to a friends as we no longer needed it and they did.We then got the other single bed out of the under drawing and took that down to No 4s bedroom.We then dismantled the bunks and carried those up to the attic along with futon mattress(very heavy).The next step was to build the single bed.After this it was lunch time so i left her to it while i made sandwiches.Everyone came down to eat. when we eventually got back up stairs to my horror No 4 had emptied every single item from every drawer,cupboard, shelf and the wardrobe and had piled it all in the middle of the floor.After about half an hour of sorting,1 bin bag for charity,1 for rubbish,a pile on my bed to pass on to friends and one on my bedroom floor to put on freecycle.No 4 announced "I'm board now can i go round to Es?"Looking at the pile that didn't seem to have gone down any "No way" was the answer she got.From then on it was a long slow slog till 6pm when finally her bedroom was like a shiny tidy new room.We ran the vac round and she stood in the middle looking proud.In the mean time,i had to make tea and clean the kitchen,we couldn't really get up and down stairs as there was a bed in the way.On the landing stood 4 charity bags and i couldn't even get to my bed never mind get in it.I was just thinking it was going to be a long night when No 4 appeared looking thoughtful."I think i preferred it when i was in the other bedroom " she said.