CALLUM IS IN LOVE!!!!!

This is my boy, Callum. HE IS 12!!!!!!!

He made me laugh massively last night, and continues to do so today. He had his first proper High School Disco last night, with a 'date' also!!

He has been 'seeing' Zoe for a little while now. He came home from school last week all flustered, as he had seen Zoe's bra!! Apparently she was taking her sweatshirt off, and her blouse lifted with it, ha ha I tell you he was absolutely flabbergasted about it, bless him.

Well, last night, he had his school disco, and the house was stinking, he had used eniough deodorant to sort a battalion of boys for a week, he then wanted to borrow some hairgel, but doesnt really know how to use it, so he looked like a hedgehog lol. Anyway he got himself 'tarted' up and was ready to go.

He boogied to every beat of music in the car on the way, and by the time we got there, he was sooo giddy with excitement. I walked him to the hall, and a group of girls called out 'Hi Callum' to which he yelled in shock (like they had just jumped out from behind a hedge, i think he was concentrating on getting to the hall to find his chick lol) and then they said 'Hi Callum's mum' i answered Hi back, much to Callum's disgust and he hissed at me 'Don't Speak to them!!' ooooh get him stroppy!!

I waved him off and went home, setting my phone alarm, reminding me that i had to go back and pick him up for 10!

When I got there I text him to say i was waiting in the car park for him, and he came flying out at 40,000 feet and rising. He hopped in the car and was looking all smug with himself, then puffed his chest out and announced 'I HAVE KISSED ZOE!' took a big excited breath 'WITH TONGUES!!!' OH MY WORD!! I nearly choked. He then progressed into giving me FULL and graphic details!! eeeeeewwwwwww I so didnt want to know!!! When we got home, he relayed all the details to Andy and then bounced off to bed like tigger.

He woke up this morning all singing and schmoozing, HE HAS SOOO GOT IT BAD FOR THIS GIRL!!! bless him.

He refuses to give me any more information, as he thinks i will take the mickey (mmmm as if, I SO HAVENT sang Callum and Zoe up a tree k-i-s-s-i-n-g, to him, and i SO HAVENT sang I kissed a girl and i liked it to him either!! lol) and he is fuming that i have put all details on my facebook lol, wait til he finds out about this here ha ha ha.

Well, I gotta go, can feel another round of ribbing coming on lol. Will update further, when he gives more details lol

Speak soon

Pay it forward . . . . .

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The world according to Maddie!

My daughter Maddison!! mmmm I tell you, she has some imagination on her, i think she's a bit la la to be honest (although i cant possibly think where she gets it from!!)

Over the past few weeks she has been coming out with a number of 'statements' that has made us laugh so hard, it brings tears to your eyes.

My darling girl - Maddison Louise

1. Maddie came home from school one day, in a bit of a panic as it was to be her friends birthday the following day, she came rushing in asking 'mum, its noreens birthday tomorrow, do you have any cards??' bit of a stupid question really, when she knows full well that I RUN A CARD BUSINESS!!! I duly hunted out an age appropriate card to which maddie was delighted. Off she skipped the following day clutching her card for noreen. The end of the day came, and maddie came home all pleased that noreen had really liked her card, but then the following BIZARRE conversation took place (M) Maddie (H) Me (N) Noreen

(M) Mum mum, Noreen has invited me to her party, I need my passport!
I did think this a little bit odd, however,wasnt totally surprised, as we have quite a large foreign community here, and i simply thought noreen was doing an 'international' theme for her party.
(H) Why do you need your passport
(M) Because I HAVE BEEN INVITED TO NOREENS PARTY (in a rather impatient 9 year olds voice, like DUH!!)
(H) Noreen sweetheart, why does maddie need her passport?
(N) Because she is coming to my party
(H) OK, where do you live hunny?
(N) Oh, I live just over there (pointing behind her somewhere)
(H) Right OK, but WHY does maddison need a passport, do we need to make her one for your party?
(N) Because I am going home to have my party, and Maddison is invited
(H) Right OK NOREEN WHERE IS HOME?
(N) In Uganda, we are going home at half term, and maddie is coming with us (to which i burst out into fits of laughter and the two girls looked at each other completely flabbergasted as to what was soo funny)

O K, It took some explaining to the girls that you cant just 'nip' to Uganda for a party! To which maddison threw a wobbler shouting, that i never let her go anywhere!! Need to find an atls or something to show her the physical impossibility of just popping over for a party lol.

2. We were all sat at dinner one evening to which Soph started bouncing around at the table saying she needed a wee, so she excused herself and skipped off, all of a sudden there was an ear piercing scream, and sobbing coming from the loo, to which she managed to yell 'there's a spider in the toilet room!!!' I asked Andy to go deal, as i was finisheing my food, and he went to her aide!! Hero!! He then started laughing, as when he got to the loo, he found that it was a large ball of fluff that had obviously come off one of my jumpers after washing. Sophie was NOT CONVINCED AT ALL!!! She sobbed 'But it is a spider, I saw it moving!!' andy then explained it was just fluff and it must have been a draft that had blown it. To which Maddie perked up (still at the dinner table) and she looked extremely confused
(M) How did that get in there then?
(H) What
(M) The giraffe?? How did it get in the toilet room without us noticing??

Silly Arse!!

3. She is having (What she calls) a career quandry!! She simply cannot decide whether she wants to be a fruit seller or a midwife (mmm pardon me??) Then she saw an advert for that ICS distance learning place, and has now decided she wants to do Hospitality Management - WHY??? Because SHE WANTS TO MANAGE HOSPITALS, OF COURSE!!!!!

My Darling Maddie comes out with these kind of things regularly, so i will keep you updated.

Thinking of Lou and her family

I have text Lou to ask if it is ok to put matty's pic on here, and she said that she didnt mind, she wants people who didnt know him to know him and for people that did know him to remember him. She said that his funeral was the best send off anyone could have asked for, he had a police escort and a horse and carriage. The service was beautiful, and there ws lots of tears. Birkenhead stood still!!

Matty!

God saw that you were getting tired,

and a cure was not to be.

So he put his arm around you,

and whispered 'Come with me'.

With tear filled eyes they watched,

you suffer and fade away.

Although they loved you deeply,

they could not make you stay.

A golden heart has stopped beating,

playful hands are put to rest.

God broke their hearts to prove to them,

HE ONLY TAKES THE BEST.

Sleep sound little man xx

Very sad day today!

It is with a very heavy heart that I write today, about a really good friend of mine who is burying her little brother today. Matty was 11.

He has had troubles since before he was born, and due to various complications, was born brain damaged. Lou talked loads about him (altho I never actually met him) he recently developed Pneumonia and went into septic shock, which caused massive organ failure. He was on life support, but as the damage was too far gone, Nina & Brian (lou's mum and dad) had the heart breaking decision to remove his ventilator, and what would be, would be. The gorgeous little one battled for 11 days (which was way more than anyone could have expected) and eventually slipped away last week.

Lou is devastated as are the rest of her family, and hope that they are able to cope with such a loss. ( I will ask lou if she minds me putting a pic of matty here)

Thinking of you sweetie, and know that matty is in a better place. RIP little buddy!

Check me out! I have remembered to come back again!

Hello again!

I have remembered to come back again and fill you in on my day! LOL

The kids and I have had a busy day! We went to visit friends in Temple Herdewyke (where we have just moved from) and had a good old catch up with a few of our friends. It is exactly 2 months tomorrow since we left, and to be honest it has felt soooo much longer. It was so good to see Laura, Callum and Ellie, and the kids all played fabulously (they normally do anyway) which allowed Laura and I plenty of chance to drink copiuos amounts of tea (which you can guarantee I will be up and down all night weeing lol) and a good old chat. There wasnt masses we needed to catch up on really, as we talk regularly on the phone, but it was still good none the less. Then we went over to the 'Drop-in' which is a community 'house' where we used to hang out (mmm I'm 35, is it uncool to say a hang out somewhere, oh well tuff if it is really ha ha) Again we caught up with a few friends, and it was really good to catch up with them too.

Thank you girls for a fab day! and we really MUST do it again soon!

I honestly did not think i would miss that place at all, but when it came to leaving, i was sooooo sad, and after arriving here in shrivenham, and found it difficult to re-build my life her, i ws actually regretting leaving and actually wished i had stayed!!! I will explain love hate relationship of my time in that arse end of nowhere tomorrow, as it is getting very late now. Besides, it is a long (very boring story, which you may need a thermos flask and packed lunch to sit down and read it lol)

So, until tomorrow peeps, i bid you good night

Luv H xx

Catching Up with myself!!! (Take 2!)

WOWEEEEEEE!! I HAVE ARRIVED IN BLOGLAND!!!! and what a lovely place it is too (Thank you soooo much Gilly, it looks fanfairytastic) I am soo happy with what she has done, all I need to do, is remember to keep coming back to fill in my news ha ha ha!

As previously mention (Gilly) my good friend told me about her blogging in July last year, and i have been following her for a while, she is soo creative. I dont think i could be as creative as she has on her blog (but i will try, and if not i will YELL at the top of my lungs, and gilly come fix it :0) Yay!!)

When she told me, I thought wow, that is soo cool, and it sounds like a fab idea. I have been facebooking like mad recently and have got in touch with so many people, from ALL of my previous lives (went to school with Gilly and she was my bestest friend).

Although it has been interesting to catch up and find out what we have all been up to in the last 5 cazillion years, it has become a little repetitive in recounting what has happened. You get a sense of De-ja-vu during the conversation, and after a while, you sit thinking 'have i already told you this??' and you can tell from the tone of voice/ or the way that they write, that YES! Indeed, you have already told them that QUITE A FEW TIMES ALREADY! LOL, so here I am.

Besides, it gives me a little space to catch up with all my peeps without Andy (my beloved and darling husband) tutting because he can't hear the telly, or rolling his eyes, because he gets to hear the WHOLE 'catch up talk' for the millionth time!!

Well I am going to go and have a look around, see what else I can add to make me look as clever as Gilly, and also to see if I can try and make my life sound remotely interesting (I enjoy it, whether you will enjoy reading it is a different matter)

Speak soon

H xxxxx