My son finished school on May 20 and then finished his exams on June 20 having therefore had several weeks of nothing to do for the lst few weeks but on the whole he has managed to amuse himself.
My daughter has been home for 2 and a half weeks and she claims that she is bored. She has had a 5 day visit from her boyfriend, squabbled with her brother, been out with her friends, bickered with her brother, celebrated her birthday, squabbled with her brother, read a lot of books, bickered with her brother and today she is so bored that she is emptying her bedroom of all the detritus acquired over the last 20 years. For that last reason I am rather delighted that she is so bored.
I on the other hand am in danger of losing my mind - this is only the beginning of the summer break - can I take the squabbles for the next two months?
Tuesday 19 July 2011
Monday 4 July 2011
There is so much going on just now that I may have to split the blog into several parts.
Last week was my son's high school prom. Oh my he looked so handsome, so grown up and sooo smart. It warms a mother's heart to see a teenaged boy looking so smart and tidy. Such a shame it was only for the one night. I must add that he isn't sneering in the photographs but struggling (and failing) not to squint because of the sun in his eyes.
He and his friend went in a BMW 730d driven by a friend from church.
The next day when I asked him how the evening was, his response was "the car was amazing!" He then went on to tell me all about how it felt, how smooth it was and all the other features of the car, hardly a word about the prom. Our friend also volunteered to go and pick them up at the end of the evening so that they could leave in the same style as they had arrived in, unlike their colleagues who were standing around waiting for parents to pick them up in the family car.
My husband came home for the weekend - and a very busy weekend it was too. I drove to Lancaster on Friday to help our daughter to get her flat cleaned and packed up at the end of her first year of university. I had booked myself into a hotel for the night to enable me to get an early start the next day. It was quite a treat to have a hotel room to myself - usually when we stay in a hotel there are either 3 or 4 of us in the one room, so it felt huge and I was able to use the bathroom at my leisure. Such a shame I left my nightie behind! My husband and son came over the next day to help with the packing and transporting. It is a good thing they did, there is no way we could have got it all into one car - both cars were packed to the roof with her belongings - and that included the back seats - think I will hire a removals van next year! There were four of them sharing a flat (self contained study bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms and a large shared kitchen). Most of them were very good about cleaning up behind themselves but just one of them was a lazy little madam who thought she shouldn't have to clean anything and didn't. Whilst it may have seemed like pandering to her idleness to do the cleaning, we didn't want to lose any deposit - she didn't care. I spent hours cleaning a filthy oven - the girl couldn't be bothered to buy a baking tray so she just put things on the shelves. She left food to go mouldy in the fridge, staining the plastic in the process, she couldn't even be bothered to empty her frozen food out of the freezer so that I could defrost it. She just told me to throw it out. By 2pm having cleaned the kitchen thoroughly and washed the floor I warned her to be careful about walking on the wet floor at which point she was just beginning to pack up her clothes. Now we are awaiting her first year results which will be posted online in a couple of weeks.
Sunday
We were planning to make this Father's Day as it was going to be the first day we were all together since before the official Fathers' Day but we had forgotten that Christopher was going to be paintballing all day for his friend's birthday. So it was just the three of us for most of the day. The weather was very hot and we were not really up for much more than vegetating in the cool of the sitting room. As David was not going back until this evening we just moved the day from Sunday to Monday.
Monday
We went out for lunch today to a Chinese restaurant which does a buffet style presentation so that we could all have a little of whatever we fancied. It went down very well. David was very pleased with his presents and he enjoyed the day and in fact pronounced the whole weekend a great time. We spent the morning finishing off getting Elizabeth's possessions put away - a mammoth task in itself - and clearing up so that we could make space in the spare room for her boyfriend to come and stay tomorrow in time for her birthday on Wednesday. David has now left for London again in preparation for going back to work tomorrow. It is always sad when he goes away but we are grateful that he has the work. We are praying hard that the contract will be extended again to give him some work over the autumn and winter periods.
Well I seem to have managed to condense it all into one post and have brought the blog up to date - I wonder what I have missed out?
Last week was my son's high school prom. Oh my he looked so handsome, so grown up and sooo smart. It warms a mother's heart to see a teenaged boy looking so smart and tidy. Such a shame it was only for the one night. I must add that he isn't sneering in the photographs but struggling (and failing) not to squint because of the sun in his eyes.
He and his friend went in a BMW 730d driven by a friend from church.
My husband came home for the weekend - and a very busy weekend it was too. I drove to Lancaster on Friday to help our daughter to get her flat cleaned and packed up at the end of her first year of university. I had booked myself into a hotel for the night to enable me to get an early start the next day. It was quite a treat to have a hotel room to myself - usually when we stay in a hotel there are either 3 or 4 of us in the one room, so it felt huge and I was able to use the bathroom at my leisure. Such a shame I left my nightie behind! My husband and son came over the next day to help with the packing and transporting. It is a good thing they did, there is no way we could have got it all into one car - both cars were packed to the roof with her belongings - and that included the back seats - think I will hire a removals van next year! There were four of them sharing a flat (self contained study bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms and a large shared kitchen). Most of them were very good about cleaning up behind themselves but just one of them was a lazy little madam who thought she shouldn't have to clean anything and didn't. Whilst it may have seemed like pandering to her idleness to do the cleaning, we didn't want to lose any deposit - she didn't care. I spent hours cleaning a filthy oven - the girl couldn't be bothered to buy a baking tray so she just put things on the shelves. She left food to go mouldy in the fridge, staining the plastic in the process, she couldn't even be bothered to empty her frozen food out of the freezer so that I could defrost it. She just told me to throw it out. By 2pm having cleaned the kitchen thoroughly and washed the floor I warned her to be careful about walking on the wet floor at which point she was just beginning to pack up her clothes. Now we are awaiting her first year results which will be posted online in a couple of weeks.
Sunday
We were planning to make this Father's Day as it was going to be the first day we were all together since before the official Fathers' Day but we had forgotten that Christopher was going to be paintballing all day for his friend's birthday. So it was just the three of us for most of the day. The weather was very hot and we were not really up for much more than vegetating in the cool of the sitting room. As David was not going back until this evening we just moved the day from Sunday to Monday.
Monday
We went out for lunch today to a Chinese restaurant which does a buffet style presentation so that we could all have a little of whatever we fancied. It went down very well. David was very pleased with his presents and he enjoyed the day and in fact pronounced the whole weekend a great time. We spent the morning finishing off getting Elizabeth's possessions put away - a mammoth task in itself - and clearing up so that we could make space in the spare room for her boyfriend to come and stay tomorrow in time for her birthday on Wednesday. David has now left for London again in preparation for going back to work tomorrow. It is always sad when he goes away but we are grateful that he has the work. We are praying hard that the contract will be extended again to give him some work over the autumn and winter periods.
Well I seem to have managed to condense it all into one post and have brought the blog up to date - I wonder what I have missed out?
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