Learning Patience

It's the summer holidays and already I'm having to learn to be patient! We went out today to meet our friends for lunch and then we all headed to the National Art Gallery which was good as the weather was a bit rubbish (for a change)....Bekky quite likes it in there for about 2 minutes.....just gives us enough time to find her favourite painting and for her to look at it and then she wants to be off! Anyway, i was a bit concerned that I didn't know where it was, but eventually we found it. Quite an interesting choice for a child I think....Matt used to have it on his computer as a screen saver and I also have a postcard of it at work, so I guess she was bound to be fairly interested in it! Sadly Bekky had no concept of keeping quiet in the gallery, i even resorted to calling her Rebekah a number of times, and they haven't helped themselves by having tempting shiny benches in each room which her and her friend promptly slided all over!

This time next week we will be in Guernsey....feels like it's been a long year without a holiday, not sure what the weather will be like, but I'm not too fussed about that!

Bring on the holiday!!

Year One.....Done!

Boo finished Year One today! We went in with presents for her lovely teacher today...boo had bought her a mug and a little candle holder and she'd also bought the helper a candle holder. Clearly her teacher was a little tearful this morning as she was opening them, and some of the children had written some lovely things in her cards. I was thinking this morning that year one must be a great age to teach....if I think about all the progress Boo has made this year it's pretty amazing. The main thing has been her reading, she's come on in leaps and bounds and a lot of that is due to her teachers hard work and encouraging her self esteem. Her teacher had also made them all a little card with a picture of her and the class on it and in Boo's she'd written inside "Thank you Bekky for all your hardwork this year and for being an all round lovely girl. I hope you have a fun and safe summer with your lovely mum and dad. Hope year 2 goes well and come and visit me soon." Honestly, when Boo read it to me, I could no longer hold my tears back....such a nice thing for her to say. I'll miss seeing her in the mornings and having little chats! Boo has a male teacher come September which I think she'll really enjoy.

Anyway, feels like an end to a chapter in her little life so far!

Too Tired

I'm so tired this week! I think it's a mixture of it being near the end of term, work being really stressful and waiting for our holiday to arrive.

Work's been really difficult this past couple of weeks...we had a sad situation where a young guy who was due to get married at the church passed away, so we have been busy sorting things out for the funeral which was last friday.....it's all been incredibly sad and is definately the hardest part of my job. I did get to ring the church bell tho....that was exciting!

Boo had her school report through on friday and found out that her new teacher is going to be Mr Lankford. She seems ok about this...she really wanted Miss Finney, but she spent some of the morning in her new class and said he had said they will go on lots of school trips...not sure he meant as many as she seems to think he meant! Her school report was brilliant....her teacher said she had been amazed by how her reading had come along...and she also said she was grateful for the support she had recieved from home which i was really touched by. It's going to be a sad day on Thursday when we say farewell to Ms Saunders....she's been such a good teacher , and just what Bekky needed! (Clearly I'm tired....my eyes are welling up as i wrote that!)

Boo has been so tiring this week, and that obviously hasn't helped! She's been shouting like a trooper about everything...and throwing fits left right and centre! Roll on August when we go off to Guernsey for two weeks!!

Star Spotting

Today I went into the west end after taking Boo to school. On the bus on the way there I saw Rowan Atkinson getting into a cab....thought that was pretty exciting....but then I went into New Look and Trinny and Susannah were filming in there! This was the best picture I could get without blatantly asking them to pose! They were in there with about 50 elderly ladies (which seemed an odd choice of shop) and Trinny especially seemed to be getting a bit cross. She's so tall and uber skinny....and Susannah was much taller than I thought she would be and also much slimmer! I'll have to look out for the show on tv....if you see it i'll be the one in the jeans and blue hoody aimlessley wandering around trying not to stare!!!

Bad Bad Mother!!!

Can you believe today that I sent Bekky to school without her lunch! In fairness she didn't remember it either...but still! I didn't even realise until I went to pick her up from the childminders where we had the following conversation:

Me: where's your luchbag?
Boo: I haven't got it
Me: You mean you left it at school?
Boo: No, I didn't have it at school
Me: where is it then?
Boo: must be at home
Me: Oh no....what did you do for lunch?
Boo: I had to have school dinners, and i didn't like anything so i had an apple
Me: you only had an apple all day?
Boo: yes
Me: oh i'm really sorry boo
Boo: thats ok

then later on walking down the street she came out with

Boo: I was really crying at school about not having my lunch!

She knows how to put the knife in!

The good point to it is that it's one less thing to do tomorrow morning as it's already made!!!

Library

Yesterday Boo and I joined the library. I joined her up as she wants to read more "chapter" books as she calls them, and then she realised you can get out DVD's, so that meant I needed to join too. So today after school we decided to go, and it was great! Boo came out with about 6 six books, and then I said i'd quite like a look for myself, so she settled herself down on a chair and read one of her books, i was ready to go, and she wasn't, so i managed to find the book i'm reading at home at the mo, and settled down with that for awhile! It was so civilised, and as i'm a great reader I love it that she seems to enjoy it too!

Not much else has been happening here...the waether's starting to get me down! It's apparantly going to be like this all summer....great! Just what we want! Wimbledon's behind by quite a few days which probably now means the final's will be during the week, and i'll miss them as i'm working....honestly....the rain has a lot to answer for!!! Plus Boo and I haven't been able to wear our new Birkenstocks!!!

MOAN, MOAN,MOAN!!!