- Spending the day with my beautiful Miss D
- Having an afternoon nap
- Finishing the book I have been reading
About Me
- A Think I Thought Today
- Hello! I'm Kara, a mid 30's mum of one, teacher by day and mummy by night. I would say I am more slummy mummy than yummy mummy but I live in hope of my fairy godmother casting her wand! I am also a sister, a daughter, a godmother, an auntie, a wife and hopefully a good friend! Having spent more time lately reading blogs than studying current affairs or indulging in "chick lit" I thought I'd give it a go so here I am! I have been married to Mr D for 12 years now and we have been together since I was 14!!! Miss D came along in 2009 and life changed for the better from that day. I work a 4 day week as a tutor in Childcare and Education (sounds far posher than it is!) and spend the other 3 days being the best mummy I can be to my adorable daughter. I *LOVE* shopping, chatting, card making, scrapbooking, cooking and reading. I want to share some of the random thoughts that I have and the craziness of my life with you. I hope you enjoy what you read and if you don't........well I gave it a go!!!
Friday, 20 May 2011
3 things!
The thing at the bottom of the garden!
A think I thought today was I wonder what the thing at the bottom of my garden is?
Every night we let our dog Tobi out for a last “busy” before bed and every night he goes straight to the top corner of the garden, behind the wooden gazebo, sniffing, snorting and barking.
He freaks me out! What is out there? In the daytime I have ventured up there to take a look and there is nothing to be seen. I have entertained squirmed at the thought of rats, freaked out over foxes, worried about hedgehogs and wondered about cats.
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Making it all worthwhile
A think I thought today (and everyday!) is how much I love my daughter!
She is the one that makes all the shit in my life worthwhile (and Mr D obviously!) Today had been the crappiest of crap days and I had driven home mainly having a phone rant at Mr D about how crap it was. I have a right mard on about it all and cannot go into the crap I have had to deal with or I may get sacked!!!!!!.
However I arrived at the childminders to find Miss D covered in Chocolate cake proudly proclaiming "I delicious mummy" how could I disagree after all she is! A glimmer of a smile maybe appeared. All the way home she was delightful, chatting, naming colours, singing songs, talking about bathing Nora (her dolly) and letting mummy brush her hair (a major issue in this house!) By the time I tucked her into her bed and she had smothered my face in kisses, the crap of the day had paled into significance.
For someone so small, Miss D is pretty amazing!
(loved up mummy moment over!)
She is the one that makes all the shit in my life worthwhile (and Mr D obviously!) Today had been the crappiest of crap days and I had driven home mainly having a phone rant at Mr D about how crap it was. I have a right mard on about it all and cannot go into the crap I have had to deal with or I may get sacked!!!!!!.
However I arrived at the childminders to find Miss D covered in Chocolate cake proudly proclaiming "I delicious mummy" how could I disagree after all she is! A glimmer of a smile maybe appeared. All the way home she was delightful, chatting, naming colours, singing songs, talking about bathing Nora (her dolly) and letting mummy brush her hair (a major issue in this house!) By the time I tucked her into her bed and she had smothered my face in kisses, the crap of the day had paled into significance.
For someone so small, Miss D is pretty amazing!
(loved up mummy moment over!)
Monday, 16 May 2011
3 things!
- Getting my observation over and done with
- Finding a lovely new eye shadow in the perfect colour I have been looking for for ages
- Being able to share the news that I am going to be an auntie again!
I've been done!
A think I thought today was that I HATE observations!
In my job we have to be observed at least once in each academic year and as soon as we are given notice all hell breaks loose! We are given a week when we can observed in any session we teach. Panic sets in - you start to analyse the students, the room, the subjects and on and on.........
I am mostly cool calm and collected at work but in this situation become a headless chicken! I do the same job 3 times, I read and change my session plans at least 5 times and twiddle with activities over and over again.
Last night, after a lovely weekend, I was up til the wee hours of the morning stressing about everything. I couldn't sleep as my mind was whirring with what ifs and what have I forgotten? This morning was a panic to get to work to print off power points, check and double check the work and finally go to teach!
Lesson one, nothing, lesson two nothing, lesson three, still nothing! Everytime you enter the staffroom the question is "have you been done yet?" Lunchtime was spent bemoaning the waste of resources for the additional paperwork printed off just in case. Off to lesson 4, the person in the class before me is late out, half my students are missing and yep you guessed it the observer arrives! Except in this case I get 2!! the Head of Department and the Head of Quality assurance! Holy Mackerel! My mouth is dry, I need the toilet and I cannot string a sentence together how will I survive the next hour?
Well I did survive (as usual) and nothing major went wrong except for some inexplicable reason I thought that it would be a good idea not to use the computers in the computer room - DOH!
Suddenly a calm has descended over me - it is over - I am free for another year!
Now I just have to wait and see what grade I get but really I don't care - I did my best and the students learnt - what more can they ask for???????
In my job we have to be observed at least once in each academic year and as soon as we are given notice all hell breaks loose! We are given a week when we can observed in any session we teach. Panic sets in - you start to analyse the students, the room, the subjects and on and on.........
I am mostly cool calm and collected at work but in this situation become a headless chicken! I do the same job 3 times, I read and change my session plans at least 5 times and twiddle with activities over and over again.
Last night, after a lovely weekend, I was up til the wee hours of the morning stressing about everything. I couldn't sleep as my mind was whirring with what ifs and what have I forgotten? This morning was a panic to get to work to print off power points, check and double check the work and finally go to teach!
Lesson one, nothing, lesson two nothing, lesson three, still nothing! Everytime you enter the staffroom the question is "have you been done yet?" Lunchtime was spent bemoaning the waste of resources for the additional paperwork printed off just in case. Off to lesson 4, the person in the class before me is late out, half my students are missing and yep you guessed it the observer arrives! Except in this case I get 2!! the Head of Department and the Head of Quality assurance! Holy Mackerel! My mouth is dry, I need the toilet and I cannot string a sentence together how will I survive the next hour?
Well I did survive (as usual) and nothing major went wrong except for some inexplicable reason I thought that it would be a good idea not to use the computers in the computer room - DOH!
Suddenly a calm has descended over me - it is over - I am free for another year!
Now I just have to wait and see what grade I get but really I don't care - I did my best and the students learnt - what more can they ask for???????
What's all tat?
Another week of rummaging and some lovely finds.
First up a lovely cut glass tray in an unusual diamond shape £3.00
Then this lovely square floral cake plate a steal at 75p
Next up a lovely hand painted teacup saucer and side plate £2.50
A pink butter dish £6.00
and this old fashioned sewing box for £15.00 it is in need of some TLC but lovely none the less! I have big plans for restoring this but Mr D may need to assist!
My favourite find of the week and a bit on the pricey side but I couldn't resist as I just loved it so much this retro pattern tea cup, saucer and side plate £8.00. My MIL insists this is a bargain!
Not quite a second hand buy but a bargain none the less was this lovely cake stand and box of sweeties that Mrs B kindly purchased as a Gift for me at the bargain price of 79p!!!!
As the sweeties were in individual wrappers the box can be recycled too!
Pop on over to me and my shadow to see what other Magpies have been buying this week! And PLEASE if you like what you see follow my blog for all the latest news!
Saturday, 14 May 2011
Button Envy
A think I thought today was that I have button envy!
I have a button box full of lovely buttons but they are all thrown in together and there is no order! This is not good for my OCD!!!!
I would love to get them organised but it is finding the time to do this. While reading my latest book “The secret lives of dresses” by Erin McKean, I read this paragraph drooling
“ Mimi’s button box was completely extravagant. It was the Taj Mahal, the Buckingham Palace, the Smithsonian Institute of button boxes. It wasn’t really a button box at all, but a huge steel rolling tool chest from Sears, with a dozen drawers. Each Drawer was partitioned with teeny plastic dividers, gone yellow with age, and in each corral was a set of buttons, no fewer than six of the same colour and design. The bottom two drawers were for the rogues and the strays – the light ones in the uppermost drawer, and the dark ones in the very bottom...........The Drawers were labelled........The top drawer the smallest labelled RHINESTONE, the next one down METALLIC and the one below that WOOD. Then the drawers were in ROYGBIV order”
I want one of those!!!!!!
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