HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY LITTLE MADAM!!!!

Hurray little madam's 2nd birthday is finally here. We had a great party at the weekend at our local church hall. It was a good turn out and meant we could play lots of party games! As predicted none of my family attended but my friends definately made up for it. My friends mean the world to me and I really appreciate the role they each play in my life.
Little madam has been SPOILT! She has soooo many new toys! Unfortunately her daddy had to go to work today so it's just us two trapped in the lounge! (our kitchen floor has been levelled this morning so is now drying out, even the cats have been banished to my bedroom for the day!) Quote of the day so far: 'Mummy, how about some cake?' at 9.27am lol
We will be doing presents from mummy and daddy this evening, I can't wait to see her face when she see's her new Peppa Pig kitchen! She will LOVE it!

Advent calander starts tomorrow :-) Little Miss K & J only have one more weekend with us until we see them on boxing day for our xmas! They have a brownie xmas party to go to on the 9th which sounds good then i'm thinking of putting up the decorations on the Sunday (11th).

Festivities are upon us :-) Its the xmas carnival tomorrow evening. I also can't WAIT until new year, Bruce and I have been keeping 'Operation Smoo code Socks' under wraps lol :-) Will be guuuuud.

x

Well I had an interesting wake up call today. The phone rang whilst I was having a lie-in, the other half answered whilst downstairs so I assumed it must be his mum. The other half walked upstairs saying 'I will just see if she is awake' He passed me the phone and I said 'hello' It turned out to be my long 'lost' grandad in Scotland (my dad's dad) :O I was really shocked and suprised. He thanked me for the card I sent to him a few months back and apologised for his delayed reply. He has recently had a stroke and so is only just back on his feet so to speak. Thankfully he sounded really well on the phone and we spoke for 50 minutes :-) I have promised to send some up to date pictures of little madam.
I rang my sister Lou after and told her what had happened. I will be sending her his address so she can get in touch with him :-)
I'm so happy that i'm finally being reunited with people who are rightfully my family. I know there is a long way to go but I am determined to get this family straightened out one step at a time.
In other 'news' the day got worse and the other half and I had another petty row. All because I asked what was for lunch and the other half took that as me demanding he get the food whilst I sit on my back side - not the case but hey, maybe I should just get used to people thinking the worst of me. He's been sulking upstairs watching tele ALL day...

The madness that is mid-November!

So here I am at home with a box of Roses chocolates (they were on offer, £2 a box!) looking at the s**t tip that is my house... :-( My motivation is wearing thin after finding out my house will be in turmoil for the next week or so as I have the builders in sorting hundreds of different jobs. Even basic things like dusting or sweeping the floor seems like a hardship and just thinking about it exhausts me. Don't be there thinking I have been sitting on my arse all morning because I haven't lol Nope this morning started off with my therapy (to help relieve the anxiety I face everytime I get into a car). My counceller is very nice and needs a medal for bearing with me! Today we started off sat in his car with just the engine running and measured my anxiety over 10 minutes. I wasn't allowed to distract myself dispite the fact there was a massive butterfly on the post in front of me!
It turns out I am still petrified of being in a car whilst the engine is running without a driver in the drivers seat, but that is for another session.
After that I went frogmarching around to a local information centre to try and track down Citizens Advice. They will be in next Thursday so best figure out everything I need to say. I am one of those people who ALWAYS forgets what I want to say unless I write things down.
I have picked up little madam from nursery :-) She is now upstairs watching her Peppa Pig dvd and hopefully feeling sleepy.... we can only hope. We are seeing Bruce later and we are all planning on watching the city lights being switched on :-) We will meet the other half in town.
Tomorrow is another exciting day :-) I am having the girls round for a night in. My poor other half will have to endure the house being full of only females for the night. No big deal i'm sure lol
Ah well, as you can see, life is ticking by...

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BREAKING NEWS JUST IN!

Love the other half very much after tonights shinnanigans with his ex! He FINALLY stood up to her!!! She was basically trying to sabotage little miss K's enrollment with the Brownies which is happening this Friday by saying to her that she would be allowed to go to a school disco instead if (my) other half agreed, that way he would look like the bad guy if he said no. His ex obviously thought he would back down and say yes and was furious when he said no and even had the cheek to say 'just be warned you have upset your daughter' The other half wasn't standing for it and so rang her to say he didn't appreciate all of this and that none of this was his fault that he was being told 5 days before the enrollment after we have already re-arranged because she couldn't make her mind up. I could hear her down the phone saying 'yes but you're not listening' blah blah blah, in the end her husband came on the phone and after hearing the other halfs side of the story he said 'fair enough' and that was that! Even her own husband knew she was totally out of order!!! Hurray Progress is made :D